Iraq to New Orleans: It pays to be a friend of Bush and Cheney

(A group of New Orleans residents waiting to board a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter to take them to the airport, Saturday Sept. 3, 2005 in New Orleans, La.)

Corporations of the Whirlwind
The Bush-friendly companies that ate Iraq are preparing to do the same in New Orleans.
By Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
(Sept. 14, 2005)

In the decade before September 11th, 2001, "globalization," a word now largely missing-in-action, was on everyone's lips and we constantly heard about what a small, small world this really was. In the aftermath of Katrina, that global smallness has grown positively claustrophobic and particularly predatory. Iraq and New Orleans now seem to be morphing into a single entity, New Oraq, to be devoured by the same limited set of corporations, let loose and overseen by the same small set of Bush administration officials. In George Bush's new world of globalization, first comes the destruction and only then does one sit down at the planetary table to sup.

(To read complete article from Mother Jones). It originally appeared in TomDispatch)

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