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Apparently the multi-billion-dollar no-bid contracts weren’t enough. Reuters reports that the U.S. Army has decided to award a Halliburton subsidiary $9.4 million in bonus payments for its work in Kuwait and Afghanistan, and plans to assess more projects for “bonuses that could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Read moreFebruary 22, 2005 Hon. Bill Nelson United States Senate 716 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Nelson:
Read moreYou may recall that we gave this week’s “foot-in-mouth” award to SAMHSA Administrator Charles G. Curie. Mr. Curie insisted that a private group being contracted for a conference seminar on suicide change the name of the seminar so that it would not include the words, “Gay / Lesbian / Bisexual / Transgender. They have backed off this demand.
Read morePresident Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security by transferring risk onto the nation’s elderly is proving a hard sell. Without public support, conservatives have turned to dirty tricks to try to sway public opinion. But no amount of deceptive advertising can mask the fact that Americans don’t want this risky plan.
Read moreEuropean negotiations with Iran over nuclear weapons will only succeed if “the United States joins in and throws its weight behind it,”
Read moreThe Justice Department yet to reveal its evidence ? let alone the charges ? against Ali, but now the administration’s attorneys are trying to dismiss the lawsuit based on secret legal arguments: “The government contends that the legal theory by which it would defend its behavior should be immune from debate in court.”
Read moreWell, we have another weekly winner here for ?the most stupid attack on gay people.? Your Federal Government seems to be going for the record of most consecutive wins.
Read moreA group of American pilots who were beaten and abused by Saddam Hussein’s regime during the 1991 Persian Gulf War are now trying to collect the $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them in 2003.
Read moreThe war in Iraq, still being sold by President Bush as an effort to “hunt down terrorists abroad, so we do not have to face them here at home,” has become a “potent recruiting tool for al Qaeda and other terrorist groups,” top U.S. national security officials said yesterday.
Read moreWell, about the only program getting increased funding in the Bu$h budget is abstinence only sex classes (leaving out the word “education” intentional there). It’s well known this doesn’t work, but hey, just like attacking queers, it makes the Christian Right feel good.
Read moreThe battle for America is joined.
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