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Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering on The American Gulf Coast

Organization: 
CorpWatch
Author: 
Rita J. King
Date Published: 
August 15, 2006
Link: 
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14004
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Categories

  • Economy - Overview
  • Katrina in New Orleans: A Disaster Industrial Complex
  • One Year After the Great Flood

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • INTRODUCTION
  • A High Stakes Game With Almost No Rules
  • IT’S WHO YOU KNOW
  • Small, Local and Left Out
  • Questionable Billing
  • Layers & Layers
  • FEMA ON THE DEFENSIVE
  • SIDEBAR: COLLECTING LOUISIANA’S DEAD
  • DEBRIS REMOVAL
  • Disposable Communities
  • SIDEBAR: TOXIC GUMBO IN CANCER ALLEY
  • LABOR WARS
  • The New Grapes of Wrath
  • Mississippi — Made by China?
  • SECURITY
  • REBUILDING: AT WHAT COST AND IN WHOSE IMAGE?
  • COMMUNITY VS. CRONYISM
  • SIDEBAR: ENTERGY — HOLDING NEW ORLEANS RANSOM
  • ENDNOTES


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