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openleft.com - 2/16/2009

"Dangerous"

— openleft.com — Last week, Nate Silver said it's not the time for any movements - progressive or otherwise -... to pressure the government on economic policy. He clearly did not like having his orders challenged, so tonight he has written a post calling himself a ... (more) "Dangerous"

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blackfive.net - 2/20/2009

It Is About Family

— blackfive.net — I have a good friend, a retired general officer, who served in the Pentagon during the invasion... of Iraq and a year or so afterward. When I saw him at a reunion a year ago, he told me about duty... (more) It Is About Family

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alternet.org - 2/20/2009

Kerry Fears Afghanistan War Turning into Another Vietnam | Video

— alternet.org — Thanks to our great friends and allies at Get Afghanistan Right , it seems like a real... discussion about the wisdom of military escalation in Afghanistan is finally underway. And this discussion isn t just on progressive blogs and the anti-war left it ... (more) Kerry Fears Afghanistan War Turning into Another Vietnam ...

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Pratap Chatterjee: The Military's Expanding Waistline
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... How did the U.S. military become this dependent on one giant company? Well, this change has been a long time coming. During the Vietnam War in the 1960s, a consortium of four companies led by the Texas construction company Brown & Root (the B and R in KBR) built almost every military base in South Vietnam. That, of course, was when Lyndon B. Johnson, a Texan with close ties to the Brown brothers, was president. In 1982, two years into Ronald Reagan's presidency, Brown & Root struck gold again. It won lucrative contracts to build a giant U.S. base on the Indian Ocean island ...

The Military's Expanding Waistline
Antiwar.com Original — ... of Engineers for the design and construction of a convoy support center at Camp Adder in Iraq. The center will include a power plant, an electrical distribution center, a water purification and distribution system, a waste-water collection system, and associated information systems, along with paved roads, all to be built by KBR. How did the U.S. military become this dependent on one giant company? Well, this change has been a long time coming. During the Vietnam War in the 1960s, a consortium of four companies led by the Texas construction company Brown & Root (the B and R ...

Is Halliburton Forgiven and Forgotten?
Commondreams.org Views — ... in the 2008 election, the departure of the Bush administration, and a general apathy towards the ongoing, but lower-level war in Iraq are part of the answer, but don't ignore a potentially brilliant financial sleight of hand by Halliburton either. That move played a crucial role in the cleansing of the company. "Burn & Loot" Halliburton has been doing work in war zones since the early 1960s, when it acquired the construction company Brown & Root and was tasked by the Pentagon with building the infrastructure for the Vietnam War. Back in those days, it was vilified as "Burn & ...

Pratap Chatterjee: Is Halliburton Forgiven and Forgotten?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Halliburton has been doing work in war zones since the early 1960s, when it acquired the construction company Brown & Root and was tasked by the Pentagon with building the infrastructure for the Vietnam War. Back in those days, it was vilified as "Burn & Loot." After more than three decades in news obscurity, in March 2003, with the invasion of Iraq, it suddenly returned to national attention. After all, not only had its former CEO been beating the public drums for an invasion, but its subsidiary KBR (the old Brown & Root) had been given a vast, open-ended, ...