1. After Katrina: A View from the Ground
   Against The Current vol. 122
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   interview with Isaac Steiner. Against The Current interviewed Isaac Steiner, a member of Solidarity in Atlanta, about his experiences in a grassroots reconstruction project in New Orleans.
2. After Typhoon Haiyan: The true face of the capitalist state
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   In times of disaster, the capitalist state shows its true face. In the Philippines, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, thousands are dead, bodies lie uncollected in the streets, tens of thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed, and survivors are without food, water, shelter, medical care, or essential supplies. Meanwhile the police and the military are guarding stores "to prevent people from hauling off food, water" and other supplies.
3. Behind the Dirty Cleansing of New Orleans
   Against The Current vol. 132
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2008
   Commentaries on the viciousness of Congressman Richard Baker’s (R-LA) oft-cited comment that “we couldn’t get rid of public housing, but God did” often miss the fact that it is, in many ways, an accurate assessment of the intentions of U.S. public housing policy.
4. Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
   Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2005
   Hurricane Katrina led many media reporters and commentators to reveal themselves and their deep-seated prejudices.
5. Field Notes from a Catastrophe
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2006
   A readable account of the development of the science of global warming, alongside shocking vignettes that demonstrate the rapidly altering effects climate change is having on our world.
6. The Heat Is On
   The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
7. Hurricane Mitch and Disaster Relief: The Politics of Catastrophe
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1999
   THE LEVEL OF destruction wrought by Hurricane Mitch is hard to overstate. While there is no way to know exactly how many lives were affected by the category-five hurricane that devastated the region between October 26 and November 1, early reports indicated that across Central America 11,000 people are reported dead, 15,000 are missing and at least 2.4 million made homeless.
8. A Paradise Built in Hell 
   The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2010
   The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
9. Race and Class: Paris to New Orleans
   Against The Current vol. 120
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   It turns out that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class divisions.
10. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
    
11. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2008
    
12. The Shock Doctrine
    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
13. A Tale of Two Islands 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A look at the two island nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes; one is a poor socialist state and the other a territory of one of the richest countries in the world.
14. "We Went into the Mall and Began 'Looting'"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Peter Berkowitz is a long-time Monthly Review subscriber. He was in New Orleans bringing his son Ernesto to begin his freshman year at Loyola when they were caught in the hurricane. Peter and Ernesto spent five days on the street by the Convention Center.

Experts on Huracanes in the Sources Directory

1. Association of Caribbean States
2. International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
3. Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
4. World Meterological Organization