IVOR VAN HEERDEN SANDY ROSENTHAL Author of The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina — the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist, van Heerden is featured in the new film “The Big Uneasy,” a documentary by Harry Shearer that is playing tonight in theaters across the country. Van Heerden is an adviser…

Saturday, August 28 is the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. Rallies are planned by Fox host Glenn Beck and by Al Sharpton. DEDRICK MUHAMMAD Muhammad just wrote a piece titled “A Dishonor to the Legacy of Dr. King,” which states: “Does…

JORDAN FLAHERTY Author of the just-released book Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six, Flaherty said today: “I’m concerned about those who have been kept out of most discussions of the city’s future. More than 100,000 former New Orleanians remain displaced in 5,500 cities across every U.S. state. A recent survey found…

SNEHAL SHINGAVI Shingavi is an assistant professor of South Asian literature at the University of Texas in Austin. He addresses several aspects of the current crisis in his two-part interview with The Real News, “Why isn’t the world rushing to rescue Pakistan?” SHAHID MAHMOOD Mahmood was an editorial cartoonist for Dawn, a national newspaper in…

PATTY LOVERA Assistant director of Food & Water Watch, Lovera said today: “This egg recall is not a fluke. It’s just the latest example of how the consolidation of food production puts consumers at risk. This particular recall is about two production facilities responsible for over 550 million eggs under 30 different labels, but large…

PRATAP CHATTERJEE Chatterjee just wrote the piece “The Secret Killers: Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373,” which draws on the Afghanistan field reports recently exposed by WikiLeaks and now organized at DiaryDig.org. The piece states: “Task Force 373 may be a nightmare for Afghans. For the rest of us — now that WikiLeaks has…

BARRY NOLAN The media watch group FAIR reports: “Boston TV newscaster Barry Nolan was outraged to learn back in 2008 that Fox host Bill O’Reilly was getting an award from the local chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. So Nolan made flyers documenting various O’Reilly outrages and distributed them at the…

DONNA MARSH O’CONNOR TALAT HAMDANI O’Connor and Hamdani are members of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. O’Connor’s daughter was killed in the 9/11 attacks. Hamdani is a Pakistani-American living in New York. Her son, Salman, was a New York City police cadet who disappeared on 9/11 and was wrongfully accused of participating in the…

NORMAN SOLOMON, http://www.normansolomon.com Solomon today wrote the piece “Gen. Petraeus Goes to Media War,” which states: “Let’s be clear about what’s happening here. The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, with the evident approval of the White House, has launched a fierce media blitz to cripple the policy option of any significant military withdrawal a…

AP reported earlier this week: “The Texas-based oil companies that are the primary backers of a November ballot effort to suspend California’s global warming law are among the state’s biggest polluters, according to a report issued Tuesday by two groups advocating for inner-city residents. “Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp. have contributed more than $4.5…