Some things change and some don't (not for the better)

As much as Katrina revealed about the ongoing disaster that is life in the United States for so many of us, the news today reminds us that things are only getting worse. The planet continues to lurch from one major environmental disaster to another, on its way to total collapse. The Scotsman reports that global warming appears to have vastly increased the strength of hurricanes produced by the ever hotter oceans. Meanwhile, white American workers remain as reactionary as ever, continuing to aim their attacks at non-white segments of the working class rather than at the white elite that runs the show in the US.