Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | America needs change not charity

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | America needs change not charity: "America needs change not charity

Withholding aid from the United States is the only way to remove its domestic and foreign policy blinkers, writes Nick Cater

Tuesday September 6, 2005

Why is the world rushing to help America cope with Hurricane Katrina?

From the UK to Cuba, Russia to Japan and more than 50 other countries, including beleaguered Afghanistan, offers of money, food, medicine, relief staff and more worth hundreds of millions of dollars have poured into Washington, which at first seemed rightfully leery of accepting poorer nations' charity."