Want some rare insight into the Katrina catastrophe? Check out Malik Rahim on the dead body left in the street of his New Orleans neighborhood; Mike Howell on the looting he saw by middle- and upper-class whites, the evacuation procedures (or lack thereof) and what he terms “the seven betrayals”; and Jeremy Scahill on the Blackwater mercenaries hired by the government (denials notwithstanding) to provide security in the French Quarter, as they did in Iraq. You can also read Scahill and Daniela Crespo’s “Overkill,” about the privatized paramilitary deployment. Then have a look at this picture and caption worth a thousand words:
— Tireless Staff of Thousands
