Hurricane Katrina through the lens of the rest of the world...

[marmar]

Has anyone run across stories showing how the U.S. handling of Katrina is being reported in the rest of the world and how citizens of other countries are reacting? I'd be fascinated to read one, and anyone who could post a link has a friend for life!

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[unhappycamper]

1. watchingamerica.com has quite a few stories.

Here's a site that has links to newspapers around the world:

http://www.world-newspapers.com/

[marmar]

2. Merci beaucoup...

Mon ami!

[Wilber_Stool]

3. Guardian Unlimited talk

http://politicstalk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee80025

Some feel it's not right to criticize ignorant savages.

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Barbados Nation News

From Today's editorial in the Barbados Nation News

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It took a storm to show the rest of the world that no country is unshakeable. Despite all of the money and time and new policies the United States government has put into Homeland Security – it was still completely unprepared for a hurricane that was known of days ahead of time.

This lack of preparedness, coupled with the power of fear and crowd mentality, has turned out nothing but chaos, anarchy and sadness for those in New Orleans and Louisiana who have suffered the brunt of nature's fury.

To appreciate the concerns about the response to this disaster, it is necessary to look around and peer behind the facade of liberty, democracy and free markets to understand the histories of oppression and tyranny and slavery.

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Now, more than 200 years later, most of the populations seriously affected by Katrina are descendants of African slaves: sons and daughters of Africa, robbed from their homes and flogged with the brutal whip of racist convictions.

http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/290358664285976.php

Just as an FYI, the population of Barbados is about 90% black and also descended from African slaves. In the case of Barbados, as in most of the Caribbean islands, the slaves were put to work on sugar rather than cotton plantations, but life for them was made just as cruel, brutish and opressive as it was for the slaves in the southern US.