An auditing board sponsored by the United Nations recommended yesterday that the United States repay as much as $208 million to the Iraqi government for contracting work in 2003 and 2004 assigned to Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary. Skip to next paragraph The Reach of War Go to Complete Coverage
The work was paid for with Iraqi oil proceeds, but the board said it was either carried out at inflated prices or done poorly. The board did not, however, give examples of poor (…)
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Halliburton Should Repay Millions to Iraq, a U.N. Audit Finds
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Congressinal version of Insider Trading?
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They Say that the Fish Rots from the Head Down by Andrew Bard Schmookler
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I get up from my seat at the computer to go out to the mailbox. I need a break from my work, writing for my website, involving as it does my delving continuously into the moral darkness that has overtaken America in recent years. I am weary of looking at the corruption and injustice that postures as righteousness among our present rulers.
As I walk outside into the radiant autumn New (…) -
Battle ahead at Americas summit
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1 commentLeaders from 34 nations have begun arriving in Argentina for the fourth two-day Summit of the Americas.
They are meeting in the coastal resort of Mar del Plata amid much uncertainty about what can be achieved on the summit’s main aim of job creation.
There are deep divisions over free trade, with the US championing it as the best way to relieve poverty.
President George W Bush is among those attending the talks. He is expected to be targeted by left-wing protesters.
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Bush, Chávez clash over hemispheric trade accord
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By Finlay Lewis
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina - President Bush pressed his free trade agenda yesterday at the opening session of a hemispheric summit in the face of a challenge by Venezuela’s leftist leader Hugo Chávez and street violence by anti-American protesters.
The disagreement between Bush and Chávez over trade unfolded against the backdrop of a peaceful demonstration that turned unruly by evening. About 1,000 rock-throwing protesters burned an American flag and threw a gasoline bomb (…) -
Bush faces showdown with Chavez ’the Kid’
5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsBy Phil Davison
If President Bush thought a weekend beach break in Argentina would get him away from his Washington woes, he is about to be proved wrong. Tens of thousands of South Americans are descending on Mar del Plata to protest against the US President.
Can you imagine one of the leaders at the G8 summit slipping out between sessions, through the security cordon, to join in a street demonstration of bearded anoraks against the summit’s most powerful participant, George Bush? (…) -
A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy, Or Worse? Reading Between the Lines of the Libby Indictment
5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBy JOHN W. DEAN
In my last column, I tried to deflate expectations a bit about the likely consequences of the work of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald; to bring them down to the realistic level at which he was likely to proceed. I warned, for instance, that there might not be any indictments, and Fitzgerald might close up shop as the last days of the grand jury’s term elapsed. And I was certain he would only indict if he had a patently clear case.
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Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request
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The Consequences of Covering Up : Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request
On November 2, the Washington Post carried an explosive front-page story about secret Eastern European prisons set up by the CIA for the interrogation of terrorism suspects. While the Post article, by reporter Dana Priest, gave readers plenty of details, it also withheld the most crucial information—the location of these secret prisons—at the request of government officials.
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Bush faces Latin fury as popularity sinks at home
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14 commentsBy Rupert Cornwell
President George Bush, his presidency foundering and his popularity at record lows at home, ran into new protests abroad yesterday at a Western hemisphere summit in Argentina - a gathering that is theoretically focussed on trade but which has so far only served to highlight the battered image of the US across Latin America.
Mr Bush went into the 34-nation meeting intent on promoting traditional US doctrines of free trade and liberal market economics, with the goal of a (…) -
Many held as French riots spread
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1 commentFrench police have arrested more than 250 people following fresh riots in and around Paris and other parts of France.
Nearly 900 cars were burnt on the ninth consecutive night of unrest in immigrant-dominated areas near Paris, despite a heavy police presence.
Nurseries and a school were burnt overnight and unrest spread to Nice, Lille, Marseille and Toulouse.
Hundreds of people have heard a call for calm at a rally in one of the Paris suburbs worst hit.
The mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois, (…) -
GOP Leaders to Bush: ’Your Presidency is Effectively Over’
4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
26 commentsBy DOUG THOMPSON
A growing number of Republican leaders, party strategists and political professional now privately tell President George W. Bush that his presidency "is effectively over" unless he fires embattled White House advisor Karl Rove, apologizes to the American people for misleading the country into war and revamps his administration from top to bottom.
"The only show of unity we have now in the Republican Party is the belief that the President has failed the party, the (…)