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  • Halliburton Should Repay Millions to Iraq, a U.N. Audit Finds
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    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 (…)

  • Congressinal version of Insider Trading?
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    They Say that the Fish Rots from the Head Down by Andrew Bard Schmookler
    http://www.opednews.com
    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 (…)

  • Kucinich Demands IG Investigation Into FBI’s Handling Of Investigation Into Forged Niger Documents
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    FBI Drops Investigation Just As Italians Make A Potential Break In The Case; Kucinich Sends Department Of Justice A Letter Demanding Investigation
    WASHINGTON - November 4 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG), Glenn A. Fine, demanding an IG investigation of the FBI’s handling of the situation.
    The letter, sent today, states:
    Dear Inspector General Fine:
    I am greatly dismayed to learn that without answering any (…)

  • Battle ahead at Americas summit
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    Leaders 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.
    Thousands of (…)

  • CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
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    Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11
    By Dana Priest
    The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.
    The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Why Are Democrats Working For Wal-Mart?
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    by Jonathan Tasini
    I’m going to spend a second day here on the Beast of Bentonville. If you want to know why the Democratic Party will continue to be the minority party in the country, look no further than the raft of Democratic operatives and elected representatives who do the bidding of Wal-Mart. At the end of this rant, I’ll propose a solution to cut off money to any of these Democrats who have ties to Wal-Mart.
    Yesterday, I attended the screening of Robert Greenwald’s new film, (…)

  • Bush faces showdown with Chavez ’the Kid’
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    By 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
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    By 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.
    Now, however, one indictment has been (…)

  • Sheryl Swoopes: Out of the Closet—and Ignored
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dave Zirin
    What’s the sound of a good story smothered? Ask Sheryl Swoopes. Swoopes is the most prominent women’s basketball player of her generation: a five-time all-star, three-time Olympic gold medalist and the WNBA’s only three-time MVP. And in a tribute only corporate America could render, Swoopes is the only female player to have her own basketball shoe: Nike’s Air Swoopes.
    The 34-year-old Houston Comet veteran just delivered what could be the most significant body blow to (…)