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AGHAST -- A Four-Year Review of Musings and Musings on the Present

Asher Edelman | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Haliburton, Stock Market, Fed, Favoritism, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Federal Budget, Business News

April 8, 2008 I said the financial system would need at least 100 times the $30 billion advertised by the Fed as the ultimate need to save the syst...

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No Success in Iraq -- Unless You're a War Profiteer

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Kbr, Rethink Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Commission on Wartime Contracting, Kellog Brown and Root, War Costs, Brave New Films, William Utt, Iraq, War Profiteering, Haliburton, Brave New Foundation, Iraq for Sale, World News

Nothing about the Iraq fiasco should be called a success, despite President Obama's attempt to provide closure to the troops misused and abused since the launch of that war.

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Let's Stop Trying to Save the Environment; We Aren't Good At It, and It Isn't Working

Harris Silver | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Adam Smith, Sci-Arc, Environmental Policy, Fracking, Environmentalists, Haliburton, Charles Darwin, Environment, Hydrofracking, Environmentalism, Capitalism, Halliburton Loophole, Green, Occupy Wall Street. OWS, Harris Silver, Clean Water Act. Clean Drinking Water Act. Tsunami, Green News

The way to save the environment is to save capitalism. And the way to save capitalism is to understand the role of government in protecting the commons through regulation and policy.

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Oil Prices 'Doing Significant Damage' To U.S. Economy, Moody's Says

AP | PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Exxon Mobil, Imports, Per Barrel, Haliburton, Federal Reserve, Exports, Oil Prices, Aaa Daily Fuel Gauge, Oil Economy, Mark Zandi, US Economy, Business News

WASHINGTON — Just when companies have finally stepped up hiring, rising oil prices are threatening to halt the U.S. economy's gains. Some econo...

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So When Does the Sputnik Moment Begin?

Susan Deily-Swearingen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Fox, President Obama, New York H20, Gas Drilling, New York City, Dick Cheney, Radioactive, Apollo, Sputnik Moment, Gasland, Nasa, Natural Gas, Energy, Pro Publica, Haliburton, Democracy Now, Frack, Fracking, Barack Obama, New York Watershed, Politics News

Why do we continue to funnel money into programs like additional gas wells in the New York State watershed instead of embracing newer, cleaner programs like wind and solar?

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Halliburton Admits Skipping Critical Test Before Gulf Oil Spill

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Halliburton, Gulf Oil Spill, BP Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon, Halliburton Gulf Oil Spill, Halliburton BP Oil Spill, Halliburton Deepwater Horizon, Haliburton, Halliburton Test, Transocean, Bp, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge is ordering tests to be performed as soon as possible on cement Halliburton Co. used to seal the BP well that late...

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Oil Spill Leads To HUGE Drop In Market Caps of BP, Hailiburton

AP | SANDY SHORE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Petroleum, Cameron International, BP Oil Spill, Louisianna Oil Spill, Transocean, Haliburton, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Business News

DENVER — The companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico rig disaster have lost billions of dollars in market capitalization since the explosion an...

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BP's Oily Political Connections, From the Bush to Obama Era

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Petroleum, Cheney Energy Task Force, Gulf Oil Spill, Bp, Haliburton, Bp Campaign Contributions, Obama, Campaign Contributions, Gulf Oil Spill Obama, Politics News

BP contributed $1.1 million to candidates in the 2000 election, most of which went to Republicans. Yet beneath the rhetoric and Obama does not emerge as any less oily than the GOP.

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'Shadow Elite': Outsourcing Government, Losing Democracy

Charles Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Rubin, Janine Wedel, Center for Public Integrity, Huffington Post Book Club, Shadow Elite, Books, Arianna's Book Club, Taxpayer Money, Press-Scrutiny, Iraq, Haliburton, Dick Cheney, Outsourcing, Democracy, Arianna's Reading, Books News

Public and private are now substantially blurred, as the "transnational" political elites and the financial elites have become literally the same people. It is a condition which leaves the people feeling unrepresented.

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Time to Get Real About the ACORN "Controversy"--and Republican Double Standards

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kbr, Aig, Mark Sanford, Acorn, John Ensign, Voter Registration, Boeing, Blackwater, Mickey Mouse, Breaking News, Citicorp, Community Organizing, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Haliburton, David Vitter, Politics News

The Right wing has always hated ACORN. Partially that's because the organization has been so effective at allowing poor people to vote. The Right hates it when poor people vote.

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Cheney's Last Hurrah: No Light at the End of the Dark Side

Timothy Bay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Blackwater, Humor, Haliburton, Political Humor, Satire, Secret Service, Obama Daughters, Political Satire, Barack Obama, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Dick Cheney, Politics News

"Sir, you really must hand over the keys to your office," the White House functionary continues. "Joe Biden has been working out of a small room next to the boiler in basement waiting to move into the VP office."

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Soldiers Sue KBR Over Iraq Chemical Exposure

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chemical Exposure, War Wire, Kbr, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Haliburton, Politics News

INDIANAPOLIS — Sixteen Indiana National Guard soldiers sued the big defense contractor KBR Inc. on Wednesday, saying its employees knowingly all...

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Underlying Questions Remain About Natural-Gas Drilling

Susan Cosier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Natural Gas Drilling, Marcellus Shale, DEC, Schlumberger, Bj Services, Haliburton, Epa, Benzene Contamination, Safe Drinking Water Act, Natural Gas, New York State Department of Conservation, Propublica, Groundwater Contamination, Green News

The race to drill for natural gas has never been so furious as it has been over the last few years. Yet, still lingering is the question of whether the process could contaminate groundwater.

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Right-Wing Supreme Court Draws Ire Of Senate Judiciary Committee

Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 05.25.2011

The Supreme Court has shifted dangerously to the right and is now the most pro-business Court since the monopoly greasing "Lochner-era" Court of the late 19th century.

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Iraq Contractor KBR Employed Underqualified Workers

AP | SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq, Haliburton, Kbr, Iraq Contractors, Warwire, Politics News

WASHINGTON — KBR Inc. used employees with little electrical expertise to supervise subcontractors in Iraq and hired foreigners who couldn't spea...

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Woman Can't Sue Halliburton Over Rape Because Of Cheney Policy

Mother Jones | Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mother Jones Magazine, Kbr Rape Case, KBR Rape Allegations, Haliburton, Dick Cheney, Jamie Leigh Jones, Politics News

On Wednesday, Jamie Leigh Jones told a House Judiciary Committee her now-famous story about having been allegedly drugged and gang-raped two years ago...

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War Contracts To Controversial Companies On The Rise

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War. Contracts on the Rise, Kbr, Iraq War Contracts, Dyncorp, Haliburton, Blackwater, Politics News

The U.S. government awarded more than $16 billion in federal contracts to the former Halliburton subsidiary KBR between 2004 and 2006, despite controv...

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