Ellen Cantarow, An Environmental Occupy Fracks Corporate America Posted by Ellen Cantarow at 5:04pm, January 22, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For a recent Foreign Policy in Focus review of my new book The United States of Fear, click here; for a recent interview that David Walsh of the website History News Network [...]
Tags: Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Deepwater Horizon, Defense Contract Audit Agency, Dick Cheney, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Halliburton, History News Network, Hydraulic fracturing, Iraq, KBR
Posted in Environment, Environment and climate, Environmental activist, Fracking, Occupy movement | No Comments »
Windfalls of War Windfalls of war: Pentagon buys choppers from Russia to equip Afghan, Iraqi militaries By Sharon Weinberger The Pentagon turned to Russia to buy Mi-17 helicopters, like these shown here, to equip the Afghan and Iraqi militaries, to the consternation of American companies. Department of Defense Pentagon contracts to Russian builders of helicopters confounds US [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Center for Public Integrity, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, KBR, Pentagon, Sharon Weinberger, United States Department of Defense
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Bunny Greenhouse Is Coming to Charlottesville Bunnatine (Bunny) H. Greenhouse is a former procurement executive and chief contracting officer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 2004-2005 she revealed waste and fraud in secret no-bid contracts for Halliburton in Iraq. She was demote d and marginalized in retribution. In 2011 a U.S. District Court [...]
Tags: Bunny Greenhouse, Charlottesville Daily Progress, Dick Cheney, KBR, Martin Luther King Jr., The Daily Progress, United States, United States Army Corps of Engineers
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War Is a Racket SHARE 6 U.S. Marine Corps / Lance Cpl. Adam J. Root KBR subcontractors work on a project at Camp Fallujah in Iraq in 2008. By Amy Goodman “War is a racket,” wrote retired U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in 1935. That statement, which is also the title of his short [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bunny Greenhouse, Dick Cheney, Iraq, KBR, National Whistleblowers Center, No-bid contract, United States Army Corps of Engineers
Posted in voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War child victims, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on Islam and Muslims, War on terror, Waterboarding, Wikileaks | No Comments »
