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No Cover-up! Hold Contactors Responsible

No Cover-up! Hold Contactors Responsible

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So what’s been happening with Halliburton? Ugly, ugly stuff, even against their own… Gang Rape Cover-Up by US, Halliburton/KBR A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and…

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Still no Oversight or Accountability for Contractors in Iraq

Still no Oversight or Accountability for Contractors in Iraq

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Another must-read, by Jeremy Scahill from today’s U.K. Guardian, “A very private war.” Four years into the occupation, there is absolutely no effective system of oversight or accountability governing contractors and their operations. They have not been subjected to military justice, and only two cases have ever reached US civilian courts, under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, which covers some contractors working abroad. (One man was charged with stabbing a fellow contractor, in a case that has yet to go…

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Halliburton and KBR in the News

Halliburton and KBR in the News

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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 more than doubled. Halliburton Co.’s profit more than doubled in the second quarter, getting a $933-million lift from the separation of former subsidiary…

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Thoughts on where we are in America

Thoughts on where we are in America

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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 profits are still being debated, but does anyone believe that the Iraqi people will benefit? A majority of the soldiers themselves thought they should…

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Dump this Congress – 109 Reasons Why

Dump this Congress – 109 Reasons Why

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Great List! 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress from The Progress Report Issue 11/07/2006, by Judd Legum, Faiz Shakir, Nico Pitney, Amanda Terkel and Payson Schwin We need a new Congress — here’s why: 1. Congress set a record for the fewest number of days worked — 218 between the House and Senate combined. [Link] 2. The Senate voted down a measure that urged the administration to start a phased redeployment of U.S. forces out of Iraq by the…

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Rant on the So-called Marriage Amendment

Rant on the So-called Marriage Amendment

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Tell Congress you oppose the “marriage” amendment to our Constitution. I did…. How dare you try to amend our Constitution to discriminate against any American citizen? How dare you appeal to hate? How dare you use God for this! This is so low, so hypocritical. You won’t dabate Iraq, but you WILL debate this? Is this what you have left to say about “compassionate conservatism”? You’ve let pseudo-christian dominionists (otherwise known as supremacists) gain too much power in our process…

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