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Ref. : Local Newsbriefs
Ref. : Letters to the editor
03.05 Open Letter to Congressman Bart Stupak
Video National Health Care Systems In Other Countries
03.12 Slick Barry and the $100-Billion Medicaid/Medicare Fraud Claim
03.09 Kill Bill: Death to Obamacare!
03.09 Obama’s Rhetoric May Be “Fiery,” But His Health Care Reform Is Still Lukewarm
02.24 Obama’s New Plan
02.21 Time to Pass the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009
03.16 WPost Blames Obama First, on Israel
03.16 Letter to the New York Times' Editor: Stovepiping To Persia
03.12 Cud and Complicity: Burying the Alternatives to Empire's Dominion
03.11 NYT and the ACORN Hoax
03.05 Sorry, Rove, Bush Did Lie About Iraq
03.03 It's Snow News
03.03 The Woeful Washington Post
02.28 The NYT Veers Neocon
02.18 US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran
Ref. : The Daily Howler
02.26 America's Supremes: Court Over Constitution
03.11 Power Rangers: Policing the System With the "Fightin' Progressives"
03.09 Thinking About Countings
03.07 Unnatural Acts: Breaking the Fever of Militarism
02.25 Future Shock: A Better World Beyond the Imperium
02.24 The Last Flight of Joe Stack
02.22 Thinking About Sadie
02.18 All Systems Go: No Dysfunction in Profitable Afghan Enterprise
03.16 America's Secret Prisons
03.13 Palestinian Dispossession in East Jerusalem
03.12 Israeli Settlement Expansions Continue
03.11 Brutalizing Palestinian Children
03.08 The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: Barcelona Session
03.05 Targeting Israeli Apartheid
03.01 America's Permanent War Agenda
02.25 Global Sweatshop Wage Slavery
02.23 Israeli Unaccountability and Denial: Suppressing the Practice of Torture
02.22 American Genocides: is Haiti Next?
02.18 Israeli Abusive Administrative Detentions
02.16 MK-ULTRA: The CIA's Mind Control Program
03.14 The Crisis in America's Telecommunications Network
03.09 The Business of Water: Privatizing An Essential Resource
03.05 Is the Recovery Real?
03.04 IMF-Style Austerity Measures come to America: What “Fiscal Responsibility” Means To You
03.04 Barry C. Lynn's "Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and Economics of Destruction"
03.01 Thinking About Fees
02.22 Campaigning for State-Owned Banks
02.22 Social Security Will Fall To Obama Before The Taliban Do
02.19 Obama’s Stealth Entitlement Commission
02.19 Selling Out America to Wall Street
03.15 Peace Process Hypocrisy: Stillborn from Inception
03.03 Muslim Disunity
03.02 Funding Israeli Militarism, Belligerence and Occupation
02.26 Iran Captures a 'Good' Terrorist
02.24 The Dubai Hit
02.22 Holland Has Had Enough: Killing of Innocent Civilians Goes On Apace in Afghanistan
02.19 The Placeman Cometh: New IAEA Chief Stokes Iran War Fever for the Bush-Obama Regime
COMMENTARY:
Post-Katrina FEMA Fraud? How About Fraud Among Military Contractors?
Clearly, it’s a bit safer politically to chase down Katrina fraud than to take on corrupt contractors in Iraq, who figure among the top Republican Party donors. So brace yourself for more accounts of FEMA debit card abuse. You can count on it. But are those antics really responsible for $1.4 billion in Katrina fraud? Think about it. Who’s doing the rebuilding, the heavy lifting at New Orleans redux ground zero? Why, it’s Halliburton, and a handful of other names very familiar amongst certain fund-raising circles. So you can be sure the libatious habits of aid recipients are going to continue to be the main focus of any congressional investigation into Katrina fraud. Overbilling and waste by the President’s supporters will be reported by only a handful of brave media outlets.
Here are those links:
- Newsweek's "Follow the Money"
- CorpWatch: "Iraq Contractor Claims Immunity From Fraud Laws"
- From Global Policy Forum: "Memos Warned of Billing Fraud by Firm in Iraq"
- The American Conservative: "Money for Nothing"
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Wall Street Journal: "Attorney Pursues Iraq Contractor Fraud"
Boston Globe: "US firms suspected of bilking Iraq funds" - CorpWatch: "IRAQ: Corruption, Missing Millions and Two Dead Contractors"
- Think Progress: "Paying Uncle Bucky"
- The Nation: "Blood Is Thicker Than Blackwater"
- The "America for Sale" Congressional Report
- Newsweek's "Follow the Money"
- MSNBC's "U.S. contractors in Iraq allege abuses" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6947745/
- The New Standard's "Iraq Occupation Ran On Policy of Corruption, Witnesses Say"
- The Center for Public Integrity's "Windfalls of War"
- The Center for Media & Democracy's "War Profiteering"
- The Center for Media & Democracy's "Reconstruction of Iraq contractors"
- The Center for Public Integrity's "Outsorcing the Pentagon"
- The Center for Public Integrity's "Pushing Prescriptions"
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This story was published on June 19, 2006.
