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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with halliburton

Into What Dark Hole Has "Ex-President" Dick Cheney Crawled?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: DICKLESS CHENEY, lies, corruption, crime, cover-up, war, murder, torture, halliburton, dishonesty, republicans, terrorism, propaganda, war, ethics )

David
- 45 days ago - alternet.org
Within two weeks of President Obama's inauguration, Dick Cheney said the new chief executive would likely get us killed. Where'd all the bravado and cheap shots from the Cheney gang go?...Into a hole or into HELL?
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Sign Petition: Hold KBR/Halliburton War Profiteers Accountable
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: usa, war, cheney, bush, iraq, kbr, halliburton, bonuses, soldiers, death, electrocution, politics, government, ethics, dishonesty, crime, cover-up, corruption, bushadministration, americans, abuse )

Tom
- 186 days ago - change.org
The Department of Defense just gave $80 million in bonuses to Halliburton subsidiary KBR for electrical wiring contracts in Iraq, even though eighteen U.S. soldiers have died via electrocution as a direct result of KBR's shoddy and substandard work.
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Witnesses Link Exposure to Highly Toxic Chemical to US Soldiers Falling Ill - Hundreds Were Contaminated
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Iraq, US soldiers, Qarmat Ali, Water treatment plant, guarded, oil infrastructure, contamination, highly toxic chemical, KBR, Halliburton, subsidiary, Washington, Oversight Hearing on Accountability, Contracting Abuses )

Alba
- 520 days ago - boston.com
KBR, 1 of largest defense contractors in Iraq, accused at Washington hearing of knowingly exposing soldiers to lethal carcinogen sodium dichromate. Specialists say even short-term exposure can cause cancer, depress immune system, attack liver.
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Halliburton Managers Told Workers Carcinogen Was 'Mild Irritant,' Workers Say
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Halliburton, poisoning Americans )


- 609 days ago - rawstory.com
It turns out to be sodium dichromate -- a highly toxic chemical which can lead to cancer even with limited exposure. Now nine Americans are suing KBR...they spent 2 1/2 months covered in the substance...KBR isn't obliged to pay damages
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ABC News: Lawmakers Probe Iraq Electrocutions
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: iraq, how gov't supports the troops, Kellogg Brown & Root, Blackwater, Halliburton )


- 614 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Maseth's tragic death brings to 12 the number of soldiers who have died in Iraq due to accidental electrocution, according to Army and Marine e-mails obtained by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
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Martial Law, Inc.
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Halliburton, KBR, Viet Nam, Rwanda, DRC, Afghanistan, Iraq, NAU, concentration camps )


- 626 days ago - globalresearch.ca
KBR, having financed Lyndon Johnson from the 1940s and into the Vice Presidential position, was rewarded after Kennedy's assassination with lucrative contracts in the escalated Vietnam War.
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Why Jamie Leigh Jones Can't Take Halliburton to Court : Impunity for Gang-Rape Perpetrators, Thanks to Bremer, Cheney, Et Al
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: US, Iraq, occupation, Paul Bremer, Halliburton, criminal 'n civil lawsuits, impunity, evidence misplaced, lost, contract specifications )

Alba
- 629 days ago - alternet.org
Jamie Leigh Jones, gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, filed lawsuit, arguing she'd been raped by "several attackers who drugged, then repeatedly raped & injured her, both physically& emotionally. But Halliburton's 'lost' MD report +photos
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Tracy Barker | The People Speak Radio
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Halliburton, KBR, Tracy Barker, sexual assault )


- 635 days ago - thepeoplespeakradio.net
Tracy Barker has brought charges against Halliburton/KBR stating that she was sexually assaulted and harassed while under their employ....This is a link to the interview by David Swanson aired 2/27/08. The audio archive will be available at this site soon
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Halliburton and Rape
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: halliburton, contractors, unaccountable, abuse, cover-up, crime, congress, iraq )

Ratty
- 710 days ago - pol.moveon.org
Jamie Leigh Jones was working in Iraq for a subsidiary of Halliburton when she was drugged and brutally gang-raped by several co-workers. But Halliburton and other contractors in Iraq aren't subject to US or Iraqi laws. This MUST change! Sign petition!
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Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up By U.S., Halliburton/KBR
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Halliburton, rape, cover-up )


- 715 days ago - abcnews.go.com
A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
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US Troops at Risk Because Halliburton Did Not Make Water Safe GET TESTED IF YOU WERE OVER THERE!   video
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: kbr, halliburton, war profiteers, crime, army, navy, air force, marines, cover-up, dishonesty, abuse, lies, iran, iraq, military, corruption, politics, troops )

Ratty
- 730 days ago - video.google.com
They (Halliburton) did not purify the water for our troops in almost all the treatment facilities they were paid for. TROOPS--GET TESTED, GO TO http://iraqforsale.org/gettested.php Tell everyone about this!
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Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: bush, bushadministration, americans, abuse, cheney, constitution, cover-up, corruption, dishonesty, government, military, Halliburton, neocons, torture, lies, propaganda, freedoms )

Mudcat
- 774 days ago - projectcensored.org
#1 No Habeas Corpus for "Any Person" #2 Bush Moves Toward Martial Law # 3 AFRICOM: US Military Control of Africa's Resources # 4 Frenzy of Increasingly Destructive Trade Agreements #5 Human Traffic Builds US Embassy in Iraq #6 Operation FALCON Raids #7
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