Iraq corruption

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• Iraqi and ME News for November 13th

  
  Civilianism News — Authority: 130
  Remember Iraq? Some recent news from the Middle East from various sources. Kirkuk, Iraq Oil Billions and Weapons of Mass Deception in Iraq – Last Thursday, Exxon-Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell won the development rights of a massive oil field — West Qurna near Basra in Iraq’s south. The two oil giants hope to ...
  15 hours ago

• Chickens, Meet Roost

  
  Multi Medium — Authority: 434
  Hey, remember all those no-bid contracts to reconstruct Iraq, and all the shoddy work by connected profiteers like Halliburton & KBR?  The Iraqis do.Iraq’s Baghdad Trade Fair ended Tuesday, six years and a trillion dollars after the American invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, and one country was ...
  1 day ago

• The Blackwater plot deepens | Jeremy Scahill | The Guardian

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 549
  An explosive report in the New York Times today could change that. The paper alleges that in the aftermath of the infamous 2007 Nisour Square massacre of 17 Iraqi civilians, top Blackwater officials "authorised secret payments" of about $1m into Iraq intending to bribe officials to allow Blackwater to remain in Iraq ...
  1 day ago

• Biden’s Iraq Scandal

  
  Attack Machine — Authority: 487
  Just One Minute: The NY Times front-pages a mini-debacle – Peter Galbraith, adviser to John Kerry and Joe Biden, has been getting rich off the advice he has been giving the Kurds: American Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits By JAMES GLANZ and WALTER GIBBS OSLO — Peter W. Galbraith, an ...
  1 day ago

• Blackwater Accused Of Covering Up Murder Using Taxpayer Dollars (UPDATED)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 429
  Infamous military contractor Blackwater Worldwide (also known as Blackwater USA and now Xe) has previously been accused of corruption, murder and illegal arms smuggling.Well, now you can add bribery to that list:Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials ...
  2 days ago

• Least Surprising News of the Day

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 451
  The New York Times is now reporting that mercenary corporation Blackwater (now Xe) approved over a million dollars in bribes to Iraqi officials in order to continue to operate in Iraq: Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to ...
  2 days ago

• Iraq reconstruction watchdog fights for survival

  
  The Cable — Authority: 695
  Between 2005 and 2009, more than $567 million was spent on one contract in Iraq to build up the logistical capabilities of the Iraq security forces, with almost no oversight whatsoever. When an audit was finally done on the invoices, it found that 14 percent of the money examined in sampling -- thats more than ...
  4 days ago

• Military Industrial Complex Alive and Well, Part 2

  
  Civilianism News — Authority: 130
  Part 2 of the Military Industrial Complex is Alive and Well with Larry Wilkerson. Like any drug addict, our oil-addicted country is going to find it eventually has to make a choice — between life or death, and between health or financial ruin. The drug of oil and the drug of imperialism has [...]
  2 weeks ago

• IG: Pricey new U.S. Embassy in Iraq has multiple flaws

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 549
  The report, by the State Departments inspector general, cites flaws in numerous systems throughout the embassy complex and says that the contractor, First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting Co., failed to properly design, construct and commission the largest U.S. Embassy overseas. In one finding, the report ...
  3 weeks ago

• Oil Corruption

  
  harmonicminor.com — Authority: 132
  In 2003, U.S. diplomatist Peter Galbraith resigned at the end of a distinguished, 24-year government career. Over the years that followed, he worked as a contract-based adviser to leaders in Iraq’s Kurdish community, while also arguing passionately in public media that Iraq’s Kurds should be given maximum ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Epiphany – Dick Cheney’s Bucket List means Using Liz to fulfill his War Legacy

  
  Osirisjournal2's Weblog - also visit http://osirisjournal.blogspot.com for older posts — Authority: 99
  Maureen Dowd didn’t go far enough this morning, she didn’t mention that Karl Rove who fed us that dumbass Bush on a platter is now dishing up Liz Cheney to prepare her as the new face of the GOP scare tactics force.  This new neo-con group called, “Keep America Safe ” - One wonders when Liz runs for ...
  4 weeks ago

• When war mean recruiting and killing children by cowardly terrorists to do the dirty work, then it’s time to come back home

  
  Osirisjournal2's Weblog - also visit http://osirisjournal.blogspot.com for older posts — Authority: 99
  “ Pointing a gun at a child, threatening to shoot him,” Swanson recollects. “I was 25 years old at the time, and it has weighed pretty heavy on me ever since then.” Gunnar Swanson The question is, are we gaining anything over in Afghanistan and Iraq? When you read that General McChrystal wants 40K extra ...
  4 weeks ago

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