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The Real Reason Obama Isn't Making Much Progress

Johann Hari | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kbr, Kbr Rape Case, Copenhagen 2009, Halliburton, Slavery, Al Franken, Jamie Leigh Jones, Health Care Reform, Iraq, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Johann Hari

The institutions that are blocking progress have rallied over the past few months to defend two causes with very little popular support in the United States: rape and slavery. No, really.

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Who's the CML Champ, Cheney or Gonzales?

Norm Stamper | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elliot Richardson, Council on Foreign Relations, Politically-Motivated Firings, Bobby Kennedy, Senate Judiciary Committee, Janet Reno, Halliburton, Valerie Plame, FBI Report, Dick Cheney, Perjury, John Ashcroft, Liz Cheney, u.s. Attorneys, Fox News, George H. W. Bush, Alberto Gonzales, President Bush, Politics News
Norm Stamper

Nobody listens to Alberto Gonzales in large part because, putting it charitably, he was not merely an unprincipled attorney general but an uninspired one. Of course, we also tune him out because we can't be sure he's telling the truth.

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R.I.P. Shane Ratliff, Halliburton Whistleblower

Kerry Candaele | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kbr, Blackwater, Caci, Halliburton, Brave New Films, Iraq for Sale, Halliburton/Kbr, War Profiteering, Robert Greenwald, Iraq War, Politics News
Kerry Candaele

His story sketched out the coordinates of greed that connected Houston to Baghdad, and ran through Washington D.C., during the Bush reign.

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Ned Prather, Garfield County Man Allegedly Poisoned By Fracking Fluid, Waiting For Decision From State

Glenwood Springs Post Independent | John Colson | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Cogcc, Colorado Drinking Water, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Fracking, Halliburton, Safe Water Act, Natural Gas, Diana DeGette, Ned Prather, Garfield County Colorado, Denver News

DE BEQUE, Colorado -- A Garfield County man claiming he was poisoned by contaminants from a natural gas drilling operation wants to know what state re...

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Natural Gas Documentary Affects Garfield County Commissioners On Federal Legislation (VIDEO)

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.13.2009 | Denver

Read More: Garfield County, Split Estate, FRAC, Natural Gas, Diana DeGette, Ken Salazar, Fracking, Halliburton, Colorado, Denver News

GLENWOOD SPRINGS -- Everyone was a film critic Monday at a somewhat tense screening of the new anti-gas-drilling documentary "Split Estate" for the Ga...

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Can $1.4 Million Buy the President of the United States?

Beau Friedlander | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Maarti Ahtisaari, Yassar Arafat, Noble Peace Prize, Lockheed, Boeing, Halliburton, # Afghanistan, Obama, Iraq, Kissinger, Politics News
Beau Friedlander

The prize came at a crucial juncture in the war in Afghanistan, and it seems clear why Obama was selected to be the next Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The folks in Oslo wanted to force him to make the "right" choice.

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Senate Passes Amendment To Prevent KBR and Halliburton From Getting Away With Raping Employees (Literally)

Howie Klein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jeff Sessions, Rape, Kbr, Halliburton, Al Franken, Jamie Leigh Jones, Politics News
Howie Klein

Al Franken offered the amendment because of a KBR employee, age 19, who was raped by a bunch of KBR workers in Iraq. After she was rescued, she was informed that she couldn't take KBR to court.

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Stand Up For ACORN, Cut Blackwater And Halliburton

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fox News, Afghanistan, Iraq, Acorn, Blackwater, Halliburton, Acorn Voter Registration, Acorn Scandal, Politics News
Casey Gane-McCalla

If the government decides to cut funding of organizations due to the actions of low level employees, they must apply the same rules to the GOP's favorite government-funded organizations.

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Frack Fluid Spill in PA Contaminates Stream, Killing Fish

ProPublica | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Water Contamination, Dimock, Cabot Oil and Gas, Halliburton, Department of Environmental Protection, Drilling, Hydrofracturing, Hydrofracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, Pennsylvania, Green News
ProPublica

by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica Pennsylvania environment officials are racing to clean up as much as 8,000 gallons of dangerous drilling fluids afte...

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Jamie Leigh Jones: Halliburton Employee's Gang Rape Not Workplace Injury, Court Rules

Mother Jones | � by Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Rape, Doj, Jamie Leigh Jones, Justice Department, Sexual Assault, War in Iraq, u.s. Foreign Policy, Gang Rape, Halliburton, Sexual Harassment, Halliburton/Kbr, Iraq, Business News

Remember Jamie Leigh Jones, the Halliburton/KBR contractor who alleged she was gang raped by her co-workers in Iraq and then imprisoned in a shipping ...

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Excerpts from Dick Cheney's Upcoming Book

Beth Armogida | Posted 09.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Vice President, Book Excerpt, Condoleezza Rice, Halliburton, Dick Cheney's Memoirs, Donald Rumsfeld, Memoir, Alberto Gonzales, President Bush, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Comedy News
Beth Armogida

I was hatched on a cold, Nebraska day, January 30, 1941. It was the first of two fateful events for our country that year. The second took place in December.

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Our Elected Followers

Lance Simmens | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Economic Stimulus Package, Economic Growth, Conservatives, Blackwater, Raising Taxes, George Will, Halliburton, Politics News
Lance Simmens

It is discouraging, disheartening, and distressing to watch so-called political leaders cower under the weight of the public policy responsibilities they so desperately campaigned to assume.

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The Yes Men Fix The World One Prank at a Time

Liza Weisberg | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bhopal, Andy Bichlbaum, Biofuels, Halliburton, Dow Chemical, Hbo, Mike Bonanno, Exxon Mobil, HBO Documentaries, Free Market, Corporate Greed, The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix the World, Pranks, Entertainment News
Liza Weisberg

In their new HBO documentary The Yes Men Fix the World, the eponymous pranksters take aim at unapologetic free market profiteers.

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Third Screen: How Now Dow... Chemical?

Vickie Karp | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, Politics, The Yes Men, Andy Bichlbaum, Kurt Engfehr, Bowling for Columbine, Environment, Michael Moore, Michael Bonanno, Bbc, Exxon Mobil, The Yes Men Fix the World, World Trade Organization, Halliburton, New York Times, Entertainment News
Vickie Karp

Corporations don't always do what's right. Maybe they can't. Maybe they don't want to. Maybe they want to but the shareholders wouldn't like it. Cue: The Yes Men.

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Can Obama Avoid Another Abu Ghraib?

Robert Greenwald | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Contractors, Titan, Barack Obama, Caci, Halliburton, War Profiteers, George Bush, Iraq for Sale, World News
Robert Greenwald

The president's recent objection to a provision in the 2010 defense funding bill that would make interrogation an "inherently governmental function" is a huge step backwards.

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Dick Cheney Passes the Keys to the Dungeon to Daughter Liz

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greta Van Susteren, Dick Cheney Torture, Liz Cheney Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney Waterboarding, Liz Cheney Msnbc, Liz Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney, Satire, Political Humor, Halliburton, Fox News, Political Satire, Elizabeth Cheney, Humor and Satire, Torture, Politics News
Matthew Filipowicz

If Liz chooses to follow in her dad's footsteps, she will have some pretty big and pretty evil shoes to fill. That's why it's important for Dick to ease her in. Keep her from being too evil, too soon.

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Is Halliburton Forgiven and Forgotten?

Pratap Chatterjee | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

Read More: War Contractors, Kbr, Iraq War Contractors, Halliburton, Business News
Pratap Chatterjee

How did Halliburton, once branded the ugly stepchild of Dick Cheney and a poster child of war profiteering, receive absolution from anti-war activists and the media?

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Dullness: A Euphemism for Status Quo

Judith Ellis | Posted 06.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Kbr, Ayn Rand, Tom Peters, Halliburton, Arianna Huffington, David Brooks, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, Business News
Judith Ellis

Brooks and his ilk also like to pretend that there is some big separation between government and big business when in reality they have been in bed for years.

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US Army Paid KBR Bonuses Despite Soldiers' Deaths Resulting From Shoddy Work

Reuters | Thomas Ferraro | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Us Army Paid Kbr Bonuses, Us Army Kbr, Kbr, Halliburton, US Army, Politics News

The U.S. Army paid $83.4 million in bonuses to KBR Inc., its biggest contractor in Iraq, despite accusations its wiring work has been linked to the el...

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Dick Cheney: The Quintessential Villain of the American West

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joan Didion, Big Oil, Railroads, Big Coal, Halliburton, George W. Bush, Westerns, Native Americans, Wyoming, Torture, Dick Cheney, Old West, Republicans, Gop, Politics News
Nathan Hegedus

Sadly, in both the Old West and the new West, the big boys in the smoke-filled rooms always need a Dick Cheney.

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5 CEOs Obama Should Fire

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, Smith and Wesson, Barack Obama, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Rex Tillerson, CEO Pay, Clear Channel, Michael Golden, Dave Lesar, Mark Mays, Ceos, CEO Compensation, Edward Liddy, Citigroup, Business News
Casey Gane-McCalla

Obama pressured GM CEO, Rick Wagoner to step down; here are five other CEOs he should consider firing.

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"Mission Accomplished" Bush Gets the Last Laugh in Iraq and Afghanistan

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, " Project for New American Century, "Afghan Arabs, Pakistan, General Raymond Odierno, George W. Bush, Xe, General David Petraeus, "Soft Power, Obama Administration, Iraq, Robert Kagan, Pnac, Dick Cheney, Kbr, Blackwater, Kashmir, Iraq Policy, Middle East. Baghdad, Inter-Services Intelligence, President Barack Obama, Isi, Halliburton, Iraq Occupation, Afghan Policy, Afghanistan War, The Foreign Policy Initiative, Thomas Ricks, " General Pervez Musharraf, " Iraq War, Afghanistan, India, William Kristol, "Mission Accomplished, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

For years, George W. Bush has been roundly criticized, even lampooned, for declaring "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. But maybe declaring "Mission Accomplished" was not that crazy after all.

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Government Forced to Back Down on Misdirected Halliburton Case

Ray Hanania | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Kbr, Kuwait, Jeff Mazon, President Obama, President Bush, US Justice Department, Halliburton, Politics News
Ray Hanania

The U.S. Justice Department withdrew its 10-count major frauds charge against Jeff Mazon and instead accepted a misdemeanor plea agreement -- a victory for Mazon and a black eye both for the Justice Department and Judge McDade,

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Generational Theft?

Alan Fein | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business

Read More: New Orleans, Debt, President Obama, George W. Bush, Halliburton, Democrat, President Eisenhower, Budget Deficit, Republican, Business News
Alan Fein

The capital projects coming out of the stimulus plan and the Obama budgets are designed to create long-term wealth, and assets that will ensure to the benefit of generations to come.

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Air America Poll: 90% Want Bush Crimes Investigation

Beau Friedlander | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Air America Bush Poll, Gallup Poll, Bush Crimes Investigation, Air America Poll, Will Bunch, USA Today/Gallup Poll, Halliburton, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Donald Rumsfeld, Enhanced Investigation Techniques, Extrordinary Rendition, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Beau Friedlander

Air America conducted a poll that asked a question raised by Time Magazine's Joe Klein: "Should Obama pardon George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick...

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