College student indebtedness grows as students find covering rising costs impossible. Fight Bush's decision to force down wages for Gulf Coast workers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Express support for Korean hotel workers. Despite right-wing lies, the gender wage gap persists and costs women and their families hundreds of thousands of dollars.

John Roberts is testifying in a cool and calculating way, letting everyone in Washington know that he will play their game, the game that cynical Europeans identify with the "political class," meaning the functionaries from the right schools who staff the executive agencies and the inner councils of the major political parties.

Much has been said about President Bush partying with John McCain, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on a shoe shopping trip and Vice President Cheney on vacation - all while Americans on the Gulf Shore needed their leadership.

Take action today to provide aid to the victims of Katrina, support the call for a Resolution of Inquiry to investigate the Bush administration's use of intelligence to start the war in Iraq, help block cuts to student financial aid, and fight the arch-conservative John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court.

All of you out there weeping and wailing about the suffering of those displaced and made homeless by Hurricane Katrina can cut out your histrionics. As it turns out, Hurricane Katrina, far from being a massive natural disaster with horrific consequences, has actually been a boon to the poor and destitute of Louisiana and Mississippi. That's right, thanks to Hurricane Katrina, some of the poorest of Americans are now better off.

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) this week exposed internal oil company memos that show how the industry intentionally reduced domestic refining capacity to drive up profits. The exposure comes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as the oil industry blames environmental regulation for limiting the number of US refineries.

Another few thousand bit the dust. Chalk another one up for the Bush administration. That’ll be President Bush’s long lasting legacy when we look back on the first few years of the 21st Century. Thousands of people killed on U.S. soil because the president failed to protect them.

In a weak effort to shift searing public critique of the Republican and Bush administration’s inadequate, incompetent, and racist response to the Katrina disaster, President Bush announced over the weekend that he was amending his nomination of John G. Roberts to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

The unprecedented New Orleans disaster is reverberating through the world. After a generation of demagoguery about “reverse racism,” equating poverty with sin, and condemnations of activist big government, the Bush administration has no foreign power or ideology to blame for the fact that thousands of overwhelmingly poor and African American people are dead or in life-threatening situations because of a generation of right-wing rule.

The free market played a crucial role in the destruction of New Orleans and the death of thousands of its residents. Forewarned that a momentous (force 5) hurricane was going to hit that city and surrounding areas, what did officials do? They played the free market.

The eminent biologisgt J.B.S. Haldane once said, famously, that "the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

EACH time that US President George W Bush opens his mouth on the situation in New Orleans, he displays his ignorance and his inability to rise above narrow-minded politicking.

Hurricane Katrina has inflicted an immense and unspeakable tragedy on the people of the Gulf Coast. The situation grows worse by the hour. The Mayor of New Orleans estimates that thousands have died and as many as 100,000 may still be trapped in the flooded city. Without food or drinkable water, time is running out for these men, women and children.

Why is President Bush more concerned with the state of marriage than the state of Louisiana? That’s what the New Orleans City Business paper asked in early February upon learning that Bush’s budget proposal recommended slashing $34 million from the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

TELEVISION coverage of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the southern US states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi has brought home to millions of people the scale of suffering there.

As the 2006 election draws nearer, Congress is becoming the battleground for Bush administration policies. The President’s loyalists continue to support the war drive and privatization of Social Security, but more than a few are jumping ship. The shifts within Congress, and breaks in the Republican stronghold, provide an important opening to mobilize voters, blunt the attacks, and build support for bold pro-worker legislation.

While the purpose of this article [is] to use satire to delineate the “reality” of an administration by pretending that it would violate its most sacred tenet, total protection for the rich and powerful, the Bush administration has shown us that it is capable of saying and doing anything, however absurd. The only way to have a happy ending, Hollywood or otherwise, is to concentrate all of our efforts, 24/7, on driving the Republican Right from power and repairing the damage of a generation.

The old Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev once compared religious leaders who attacked the Soviet Union as comparable to the priests who threw holy water on the weapons of the Czar’s armies. But Pat Robertson has gone Nikita once better, advising the U.S. government on National Cable Television (actually the Family Channel, formerly the Christian Broadcasting Network) to murder Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.

In internal memos, Roberts urged President Ronald Reagan to refrain from embracing any form of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment pending in Congress; he concluded that some state initiatives to curb workplace discrimination against women relied on legal tools that were "highly objectionable"; and he said that a controversial legal theory ...of directing employers to pay women the same as men ... was "staggeringly pernicious" and "anti-capitalist."

Groups demand that the Bush administration condemn right-wing televangelist Pat Robertson's call to assassinate Hugo Chávez. States revolt agains the No Child Left Behind school privatization scheme. Students demand real financial aid. Faith communities step up their role in the peace movement.