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Ellen Cantarow, An Environmental Occupy Fracks Corporate America Posted by Ellen Cantarow

January 23, 2012
Ellen Cantarow, An Environmental Occupy Fracks Corporate America  Posted by Ellen Cantarow

              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 [...]

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Posted in Environment, Environment and climate, Environmental activist, Fracking, Occupy movement | No Comments »

Crime does not pay unless it’s backed by the state (Noam Chomsky)

August 31, 2011
Crime does not pay unless it’s backed by the state (Noam Chomsky)

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 [...]

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Posted in War, War and economics, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime | No Comments »

A demoted person speaks about war spending

August 15, 2011
A demoted person speaks about war spending

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 [...]

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Posted in US economy, US elections, US life and the military, US Politics, US public opinion, US war crimes | No Comments »

War is a racket

July 29, 2011
War is a racket

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 [...]

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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 »

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