The Disastrous Road of Hope

It is perhaps only coincidence that swine flu’s history is linked to the US Army and that President Obama was exposed to swine flu on his recent visit to Mexico and that Donald Rumsfeld, former US Secretary of Defense, was chairman of Gilead, the company that developed Tamiflu, the antidote to swine flu. Will Donald [...]

Halliburton Supplies Rotten Food to US troops

US military contractor KBR, a former subisidary of Halliburton [read: Dick Cheney — WiC], is facing a number of lawsuits over its activities in Iraq, and elsewhere. KBR is the largest contractor for the United States Army and a top-ten contractor for the US Department of Defense.
In one class-action suit Joshua Eller, a civilian [...]

Rice admits officials approved use of torture

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently became the first Bush administration official to admit that high-level discussions of the use of torture had taken place in 2002 and 2003.
 

 
According to a written statement provided to the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month and released on Wednesday by committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), officials [...]