George ‘WALL’ Bush Builds Legacy With Concrete and Chain Link
Walls are everywhere in Baghdad, put up by U.S. forces to offer a degree of security to hard-pressed residents. But do they merely perpetuate divisions? Critics argue the walls divide communities,...
View ArticleWeapons Industry Favors Hillary Clinton
Considering Hillary Clinton’s a hawk, it’s not surprising that Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon are donating to Clinton more than any candidate in either party....
View ArticlePentagon Threat – No Strings On Funding Or Else
Pentagon Warns of Civilian Layoffs If Congress Delays War Funding Democrats Are Firm on Link to Troop Withdrawals From Iraq By Jonathan Weisman and Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post The Defense...
View ArticleArmy Procurement Melts Under Close Scrutiny
The Army’s top procurement official, Claude M. Bolton Jr., resigned yesterday after six years on the job. Bolton, a retired Air Force major general, will step down as assistant secretary of the Army...
View Article2.5 Million Immigration Applications vs. Unhappy Processors
Immigration Contractor Trims Wages Workers who help process millions of visa and citizenship applications for a federal immigration agency are getting pay reductions just as the agency is facing...
View ArticleRules for Private Armies in Iraq … Sure
The U.S. Departments of State and Defense have agreed to a new system of rules designed to increase control over private security contractors working in Iraq. The two U.S. agencies with key roles in...
View Article$1B In Military Equipment Missing In Iraq
No more money for Iraq! PERIOD! No more money for the Pentagon! No more money for the contractors! No more money for Bush! No More Money for anyone! We have given money hand over fist with disastrous...
View Article$736 million Baghdad Embassy A Fire Risk
The firefighting system in the massive $736 million embassy complex in Baghdad has potential safety problems that top U.S. officials dismissed in their rush to declare construction largely completed by...
View ArticleUS Contractor Implicated In Albania Explosions
“There is a colossal, crazy amount of it dating back to 1945.” Military experts were disposing of old shells at the time of the blasts. They were reported to be being assisted by employees of a US...
View ArticleThat Awful Sucking Sound “We don’t know what we paid for” In Iraq
US paying allies to fight war in Iraq NEW DELHI: The tale of massive fraud and embezzlement of millions of dollars by the US military in its operations in Iraq continues. Testifying before the US...
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