November 2005

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  Reconstructing Disaster: Profiteers and Pink Slips Ravage the Gulf Coast

  11.29.05 | Permalink | Comments Off |

  by Rob Maguire
  The Dominion, December 2005
  Three months have passed since Hurricane Katrina, and the high drama of disaster has been replaced by the less glamourous task of rebuilding lives and communities. While the people of New Orleans struggle to adjust, wealthy corporations are reaping the rewards of reconstruction.
  The US Congress has already approved US$62 billion [...]

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  Reconstructing Disaster

  11.29.05 | Permalink | Comments Off |

  An article I wrote on the slick buisness of reconstruction in the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast is now online at the the Dominion’s website. It is quite disgusting what is going on there, and the disaster profiteering reminds me of the current corporate exploitation of Iraq. Nonetheless, it is in America’s own backyard, [...]

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  Back to Blogging

  11.26.05 | Permalink | Comments Off |

  After a few months of inactivity, I’m going to resume writing here at projectcommunis.org. I hadn’t totally disappeared from the blogging world, however, as I continued to run uberculture.org and occasionally post to the weblog at dominionpaper.ca.
  I should be posting updates daily, as I finish my thesis on electricity privatization and observe the [...]