By GINGER THOMPSON and JAMES RISEN
The New York Times
Published: December 8, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/washington/09blackwater.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=Blackwater&st=cse
WASHINGTON — In the first public airing of an investigation that remains the source of fierce international outrage, the Justice Department on Monday unsealed its case against five private security guards, built largely around the chilling testimony of a sixth guard about the 2007 shootings that left [...]
Blackwater Security Guards Indicted
Ken Larson on the Military Industrial Complex
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While we observe Wall Street go through an implosion and our lawmakers mortgage the future of America with the associated bailout, let us keep an eye on another adjacent and related tower with [...]
Indiana Guardsmen Sue Defense Contractor KBR for Exposing Them to Carcinogens in Iraq
By Farah Stockman, Boston Globe Staff | December 4, 2008
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/12/04/indiana_guardsmen_sue_defense_contractor_kbr?mode=PF
WASHINGTON – Sixteen Indiana national guardsmen filed a lawsuit yesterday accusing KBR, the Houston-based US defense contractor, of knowingly exposing them to “one of the most potent carcinogens” known to man while they guarded a water treatment plant in Iraq that the company was repairing.
The complaint alleges [...]
A Corporate Watch Report: Outsourcing Intelligence in Iraq
by Pratap Chatterjee
A Special Report from Corporate Watch
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15253
When U.S. troops or embassy officials want to track and investigate Iraqis — such as interrogating prisoners accused of terrorism, doing background checks on potential employees, or even to chat with ordinary citizens on the street — the principal intermediary is a relatively obscure company named L-3, that is [...]
General Barry McCaffrey: Pawn in the Military Industrial Complex
By DAVID BARSTOW of the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/washington/30general.html?_r=1
In the spring of 2007 a tiny military contractor with a slender track record went shopping for a precious Beltway commodity.
The company, Defense Solutions, sought the services of a retired general with national stature, someone who could open doors at the highest levels of government and help it [...]
More Good News from Iraq: Small Arms Corporations
by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch
September 22nd, 2008
Clandestine gun suppliers, funded by the U.S. and Iraqi governments, have flooded Iraq with a million weapons since 2003, charges a new Amnesty International investigation. Because of faulty or non-existent government tracking systems, many of those guns have gone missing, and some have turned up in the hands of [...]
The Decline of the American Empire via Iraq: an interview with Howard Zinn
As published in Al-Jazeera
Q: Where is the United States heading in terms of world power and influence?
HZ: America has been heading - for some time, and is heading right now – toward less and less world power, less and less influence.
Obviously, since the war in Iraq, the rest of the world has fallen away from the United States, and [...]
Evidence of American Empire: 761 US military installations abroad
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Here it is, as simply as I can put it: In the course of any year, there must be relatively few countries on this planet on which U.S. soldiers do not set foot, whether with guns blazing, humanitarian aid in hand, or just for a friendly visit. In startling numbers of countries, our [...]
Pentagon auditors pressured to favor defense contractors
By Dana Hedgpeth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 24, 2008; Page D01
Auditors at a Pentagon oversight agency were pressured by supervisors to skew their reports on major defense contractors to make them look more favorable instead of exposing wrongdoing and charges of overbilling, according to an 80-page report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office.
The Defense [...]
Was Kennedy killed by the Military Industrial Complex?
Editor’s note:
Say what you will about the JFK murder. One thing is for sure: Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA trained (through the Office of Naval Intelligence) asset that was allowed to “defect” to the USSR and then allowed to “re-patriate” at the height of the Cold War (1960 – 1962).
(see the attached document found [...]
