Rebecca Solnit's book about disaster and civil society, A Paradise Built in Hell, will be out in time for Katrina's fourth anniversary. It includes a much more extensive report on the crimes of Katrina, as well as the achievements of civil society in that disaster and others.

Blog Entries by Rebecca Solnit

The Icelandic Volcano Erupts

Posted February 10, 2009 | 03:19 PM (EST)


Cross-posted from TomDispatch.com

In December, reports surfaced that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pushed his Wall Street bailout package by suggesting that, without it, civil unrest in the United States might grow so dangerous that martial law would have to be declared. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund...

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The Grinning Skull

11 Comments | Posted December 23, 2008 | 05:44 PM (EST)


Cross-posted from TomDispatch.com

What do you do when you notice that there seems to have been a killing spree? While the national and international media were working themselves and much of the public into a frenzy about imaginary hordes of murderers, rapists, snipers, marauders, and general rampagers among the...

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