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BLACKWATER : THE SHADOW WAR
* BLACKWATER : BUSH / CHENEY'S PRIVATE JUNTA * ARMED & DANGEROUS *
If the Republicans lose in 2008, they will leave office armed and dangerous. Bush's Praetorian Guard could presage the final stage in the collapse of American democracy. http://www.indypendent.org/?p=1230
HOW TO DESTROY A COUNTRY AND GET OFF SCOT-FREE * The warmongers invaded, crushed and occupied a country that was no threat to anyone. They stood by as it was looted, exacerbated sectarianism, flattened entire towns, tortured untold numbers of innocents, brought in gum-chewing, tattooed foreign mercenaries and paid crony companies billions of dollars for mythical reconstruction projects. By Linda Heard
POP QUIZ : Which multi-billion dollar defense contractor is actually classified as a small business? It Misrepresents Itself as Mom and Pop Inc. to get Government Contracts. While it received 32 government contracts that had limited applicants to revenues of $6.5 million or less, the company has earned more than $1 billion in government contracts since 2002. CAN YOU SAY CRONY CAPITALISM ? Here's a hint: It's facing a war crimes inquiry and its got "Worldwide" in its name.
"The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief." - Aristotle
"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle * BLACKWATER : BUSH / CHENEY'S PRIVATE JUNTA * ARMED & DANGEROUS * ... more -
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2007
Neither Honest Nor Trustworthy: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2007
by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
The U.S. public holds Big Business in shockingly low regard.
A November 2007 Harris poll found that less than 15 percent of the population believes each of the following industries to be "generally honest and trustworthy:" tobacco companies (3 percent); oil companies (3 percent); managed care companies such as HMOs (5 percent); health insurance companies (7 percent); telephone companies (10 percent); life insurance companies (10 percent); online retailers (10 percent); pharmaceutical and drug companies (11 percent); car manufacturers (11 percent); airlines (11 percent); packaged food companies (12 percent); electric and gas utilities (15 percent). Only 32 percent of adults said they trusted the best-rated industry about which Harris surveyed, supermarkets.
With the 10 Worst Corporations of 2007, we aim to show - again - that Big Business is out of control and to connect comparable abuses to the failure of government overseers, regulators and enforcers.
Presented alphabetically, here are the 10 Worst Corporations of 2007:
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2007/112007/mokhi... Neither Honest Nor Trustworthy: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2007 by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman ... more -
Colombia orders Uribe ally arrest
"Colombian prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a cousin and key ally of President Alvaro Uribe over alleged ties to paramilitary groups.
The chief prosecutor's office said Mario Uribe Escobar was accused of criminal conspiracy.
Mr Uribe, who stepped down as a senator last October, denies any wrongdoing.
He is one of the most prominent figures caught up in the scandal that has seen dozens of politicians arrested over alleged links to paramilitaries." "Colombian prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a cousin and key ally of President Alvaro Uribe over alleged ties to paramilita... more -
The Medellin Mechanic
This is the personal story of Frank, a former Colombian paramilitary soldier, who was part of a massive demobilization process that forced more than 4100 men to give up their weapons.
Frank has suffered from his past, but lives to tell his story. This is the personal story of Frank, a former Colombian paramilitary soldier, who was part of a massive demobilization process that fo... more -
Torture, Paramilitarism, Occupation and Genocide
Torture as Policy under George Bush
"On October 5, George Bush confronted a public uproar and defended his administration claiming "This government does not torture people." Again he lied. Once secret US Department of Justice (DOJ) legal opinions confirm the Bush administration condones torture by endorsing "the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency." It also condones paramilitary thuggery, oppressive occupation, and genocide. This unholy combination is the ugly face of an imperial nation run by war criminals. That's the state of things today. First, the practice of torture."
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