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Enduring an Occupation for Oil
Ann Wright, for Truthout, writes: "Last week Iraq's Maliki government 'asked' President Bush for an 'enduring' strategic security relationship with the United States that will have 50,000 US military and... ...
Scientists stand up to government for privacy rights
Wired News 11/27/07 Next week 28 NASA Jet Propulsion Lab scientists (including William Banerdt, a project scientist on the Mars rover program) will fight for their right to privacy in the U.S. Ninth... ...
Pentagon Offers Huge Bonuses to Hold Onto Top Warriors
The Pentagon’s Special Operations Command is paying reenlistment bonuses of up to $150,000 to Army Green Berets and Navy SEALs to keep them from fleeing the military to take high-paying jobs with private... ...
Iraq Bill Would Lift Contractor Immunity
Sinan Salaheddin of The Associated Press reports: "The Iraqi government on Tuesday approved draft legislation lifting immunity for foreign private security companies, sending the measure to parliament,... ...
Immunity Deal Hampers Blackwater Inquiry
Lara Jakes Jordan reports for The Associated Press: "The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians....... ...
The U.S. addiction to privatising wars
Whether the controversial U.S. private security company Blackwater leaves Iraq or not, the United States is unlikely to shake its dependence on civilians fighting its wars anytime soon. The superpower... ...
Congress wants answers over $1bn war zone fees
The chaotic relationship between the US government and private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan was today highlighted by a Congressional investigation into where more than $1bn allocated for police... ...
Questions Remain About Housing Secretary
Pete Yost reports for The Associated Press: "During an investigation of his conduct last year, President Bush's housing secretary defiantly defended his dealings with federal contractors doing business... ...
Blackwater and Bush’s war
Future of Freedom Foundation by Sheldon Richman 10/15/07 If Iraq is really a sovereign country, which is the fiction maintained by the Bush administration, then why aren’t the Blackwater USA personnel... ...
Blackwater: Mercenaries by Definition
By A. Alexander Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater mercenaries, has been a huge financial supporter of George W. Bush and the Republican Party. That might explain why Mister Bush's State Department... ...