16 January 2014 — RT
Reparations should come from Halliburton, General Electric and all the military contractors that have made so much money out of the destruction of Afghanistan and other countries, foreign policy analyst Caleb Maupin told RT.
Tag: Halliburton
More on the Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney in $180 million bribery case By John Byrne
2 December, 2010 — Global Research – Raw Story
The company that Dick Cheney ran prior to becoming Vice President of the United States was atop the tongue of liberals each time his company was awarded a contract in Iraq.
Now the company’s name, Halliburton, is being spoken somewhere else: Nigeria.
According to a story filed late Wednesday, Cheney will be indicted in a Nigerian bribery case as part of an investigation into an alleged $180 million bribery scandal.
Will The Obama Govt Pressure Nigeria To Back Off Issuing An Arrest Warrant For Dick Cheney?
US Senate Begins Oil Spill Cover-Up By Tom Eley
13 May, 2010 — Global Research – World Socialist Web Site – 12 May, 2010
On Tuesday, the US senate began hearings into the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which took the lives of 11 workers in an April 20 explosion and has since poured millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the region with an environmental and economic catastrophe.
Appearing before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the morning and the Environmental and Public Health Committee in the afternoon were executives from the three corporations implicated in the disaster: Lamar McKay, president of the US operations of BP, which owned the oil and the drill site; Steven Newman, president of Transocean, the contractor that owned the rig and employed most of its workers; and Tim Probert, an executive with Halliburton, which contracted for the work of cementing the rig’s wellhead one mile beneath ocean’s surface.
The hearing resembled a falling out among thieves, with multi-millionaire executives—who, until April 20, had collaborated in thwarting basic safety and environmental considerations—each blaming the other for the explosion.
Rami Khouri: Iraq Sliced and Diced 22 Oct 2008
Will Iraq finally end the colonial era?
One of the most fascinating developments in the Middle East these days is the attempt by the US and Iraqi governments to negotiate an agreement defining the status of American troops in Iraq, including a target date for all US troops to leave by 2011. A critical issue still being negotiated is the liability and legal jurisdiction for American troops that stay in the country.
The Energy ‘Crisis’: Futurology without a future? By William Bowles
17 September 2003
According to an interview conducted by Mike Ruppert and available on the Guerrilla News Network,[1] and which first appeared on Ruppert’s From the Wilderness website, we have already passed the point of no return when it comes to new sources of oil and gas and we’re headed for a disaster, if not next year then at some point in the near future, of which the recent North American blackout was a mere prelude. In the preamble to the interview, GNN tells us: Continue reading
The New Dark Age 