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Halliburton and KBR have broken up - and breaking up is hard to do. But no sad faces, y’hear? Everything’s A-OK for the billionaire war and oil profit set.
They are diggin’ the new headquarters in Dubai - way better than Houston. Texas is so over. Everything’s bigger in the United Arab Emirates.
Halliburton’s second quarter profits [...]

Where are we, America?
March 20th will be the four-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion and subsequent occupation. We’ve succeeded in making a bad situation worse for the people of Iraq. We’ve killed and been killed. We’ve drained our financial resources for the foreseeable future, and handed out contracts to such ilk as Halliburton. The oil [...]

Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rumsfeld, Ms. Rice:
We are America’s citizens. We are not defeatists. We are not pessimists. We are not appeasers.
I don’t hear anyone arguing that the militant anti-USA movements in the middle east are not a threat.
Not “Dean democrats,” not anyone.
Many of us simply have come to believe that you back-alley players [...]

It turns out that former Majority Leader and Presidential candidate Bob Dole was hired last year as a legal consultant by Dubai Ports World to shepherd the deal through, courtesy of Alston & Bird.
Wife Sen. Elizabeth Dole says that she is "deeply concerned" about operations at six U.S. ports being controlled by Dubai Ports World [...]