Iraq War Profiteers: 25 Companies Who Benefit From The War
The Iraq war is many things to different people. It is called a strategic blunder and a monstrous injustice and sometimes even a patriotic mission, mu...
Halliburton
Why John McCain's "Surge" Success Story is a Lie
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
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McCain's belief that the surge "won the war" contradicts the substance of the "status of force" agreement the Bush administration has been trying to ram down the Iraqi government's throat.
The New Workers Uniting Union Means Global Solidarity
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business
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Georgia Pacific,
Dick Cheney,
Kimberly Clark,
Unite the Union,
Don Imus,
Derek Simpson,
Ireland,
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Global corporations have set up a situation in which they are herding workers in a stampede to the bottom. So we created the first global union to face off unregulated multinational corporations.
Obama's Money, Take Two
Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
I desperately want Obama to win, and I hope Wall Street gives him $10 million more. Having Goldman Sachs run the government would be a huge step up from having Halliburton run it.
McClellan: Cheney's Book Should Be Titled "I Upped Halliburton's Income - So Up Yours"
Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
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Scott McClellan, speaking to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, took another jab at old boss, Vice President Dick Cheney. From The San Francisco...
"Beyond Politics": Quick-Fix Bush Gives Us Short-Term Hope and Long Term Disaster
Ray Hanania | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
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What we need and is what Bush is incapable of offering the American people: a long-term strategy that will shift us from oil-based energy to solar energy and alternative fuels.
Army Official Fired For Refusing To Pay Questionable Contractor
The New York Times | James Risen | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- The Army official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying ...
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Mark Kleiman | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
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The Halliburton board knew what it was doing when it gave Dick Cheney $80 million he wasn't contractually entitled to as he moved from its executive suite to the White House.
The Truth "Gagged" and Treason Hidden
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
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My God, we have lost our country completely. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) stood ALONE on the House floor last night for nearly five hours readin...
The Pentagon's Fifteen Billion Dollar Pirate Plunder
Paige Donner | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics
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(No, this is NOT an Indiana Jones Sequel) Yes, you read that correctly. American taxpayers have paid out $15 Billion U.S. dollars in unaccounted for...
The Loss of Democracy: The Deeper Meaning of McClellan's Revelations of Imperial Deceit & Media Submissiveness
Dan Kovalik | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
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The result of the White House spin, and the complicity of the press corp. in it, has been the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. servicemen and women and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
War, Inc: Owning Makes It Okay
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 05.26.2008 | Entertainment
When our catastrophic foolishness is presented eloquently in under two hours, and our major newspapers don't see any redeeming value in that achievement, you have to wonder what's keeping it out of the "free market."
Halliburton Bids $3.36 Billion Cash For British Oil Services Firm
AP | JANE WARDELL | Posted 05.23.2008 | Business
LONDON — In the hot energy sector, a rapid-fire bidding contest broke out Friday between a London-led private equity consortium and Halliburton ...
John Cusack's War: The Actor Battles to Un-embed Hollywood With His New Film, War, Inc.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.16.2008 | Entertainment
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Cusack's new Film, War Inc., is a powerful, visionary response to the cheerleading culture of the corporate media and a pliant Hollywood afraid of its own shadow.
$200 a Barrel Oil: It Could Go Much Higher!
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business
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Houston,
Malaysia,
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Lundin,
Talisman,
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Oil power and money is in the hands of people and governments I would not want to eat dinner with, much less ask to make important decisions affecting the future of the planet. Pay attention.
Next Version Of Telecom Immunity Will Be For Halliburton
Bob Geiger | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
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How long before Bush similarly begins blocking any attempt to hold his buddies in companies like Halliburton accountable for ripping off Americans and cheating our troops?
The Man Who Would Be Bush
Robert Scheer | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
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A vote for McCain is a vote for that rancid recipe mixing religious bigotry, imperial arrogance and corporate greed that he had stood against in the run-up to the 2000 presidential election.
Victory in Iraq! Oil Over $100 Barrel and 35 International Oil Companies Vying To Bid On Iraqi Oil Projects
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
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Only three years ago even OPEC was talking with embarrassment about oil prices exceeding $50 a barrel as our descent into the hell of Iraq continued unabated.
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's Resignation -- A Window Into Bush Administration's Corruption, Indifference, and Incompetence
Peter Dreier | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home
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The involuntary resignation of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson this week provides an opportunity to underscore and distinguish the three major failings of the Bush administration.
War on Terror A Boon For Virginia
Washington Independent | Matthew Blake | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business
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When three State Dept. contract employees looked into the presidential candidate's passport records, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) didn't ask Condol...
Iraq Still for Sale
Kerry Candaele | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
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The missing and ripped-off billions in this three-trillion dollar war, are now making their entrance into public consciousness.
Top Iraq Contractor Skirts Taxes Offshore
Boston Globe | Farah Stockman | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics
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Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of milli...
Halliburton Subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root Avoided US Taxes Through Off-Shore Shell Companies
Boston Globe | Farah Stockman | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics
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Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of milli...
Aboard the Condoleezza Rice
Robert Scheer | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
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Oil sold for $22.81 the year before the war was launched against a country with the world's second-largest holding, and the average price last year was almost three times that, at $64.20.
Halliburton, Rape and the Failure of Justice
Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
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Ali Mokhtare,
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Tracy Barker, a former Halliburton employee who was sexually assaulted by her co-workers, had her case against Halliburton thrown out by a Bush-appointed federal judge a few days ago.
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