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  • Scandal-Linked Alaska Co. Has DC Ties to Sen. Ted Stevens -Largest Contributor to Rep. Don Young
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    For AK Scandal Company, Money Can’t Buy Happiness — But Influence? Perhaps. By Justin Rood - September 1, 2006, 12:16 PM
    When FBI agents raided the offices of Alaska Senate President Ben Stevens and five other legislators, they were looking for evidence of improper ties between those state lawmakers and a company called VECO Corp.
    That left some scratching their heads. What’s VECO?
    Based in Alaska, the privately-owned, non-union company deals primarily in petroleum and (…)

  • We need you as much as you need us ... it is a symbiotic relationship, folks!
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    Many have emailed me that stating that I hate United States and nothing can be farther from the truth ... I love my country, just not its government.
    On many occasions through writing for VHeadline.com, I have told my readers in the United States how their own damn government was their enemy and not President Hugo Chavez.
    On several occasions, I have written favorable comments when it comes to Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. In my eyes, he is very much the patriot. (…)

  • Central bank workers gagged
    27 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Central bank workers gagged
    By Moti Bassok
    The director general of the Bank of Israel, Yaakov Danon, sent a letter Sunday to the bank’s employees threatening them with dismissal if they speak to reporters.
    Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer instructed Danon to write the letter.
    The letter prohibits all bank employees from passing on to any unauthorized individuals any information received by the workers within the scope of their employment, without the express permission of the (…)

  • CHAVEZ DECIDES IN CHINA: TRANSFERENCE OF TECHNOLOGY AND RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
    24 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Front Revolutionary Bolivariano (Ferrebé) presents/displays to the world the summarized information of the profits reached about President Chávez in its trip to China.
    La bases in the agreements that Venezuela negotiates with other countries is the one to obtain technology transferences, in order to be guaranteeing the advance of the country towards an outpost power technology, combining those transferences with the investigation that leads the Specialized Ministry of Science and (…)

  • ALTERNATIVES TO THE COLLAPSED WTO DOHA ROUND TALKS
    23 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Alternatives To the Collapsed WTO Doha Round Talks - by Stephen Lendman
    On July 24, 2006, World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy was forced to halt the five years of negotiating of the so-called Fourth WTO Ministerial Doha Round that began in Doha, Qatar in November, 2001 and ended (for now, at least) in Geneva, Switzerland. The talks had been ongoing to strike a trade deal but broke down because the US, as usual, demanded all take and little give in return expecting (…)

  • Record-low stocks bring world rice price to the boil 
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Record-low stocks bring world rice price to the boil Jeff Wilson and Saijel Kishan
    Posted to the web on: 15 August 2006 Bloomberg
    THE world may soon pay more than ever for its most abundant food: rice.
    A record crop this year in a market anticipating rising production costs will do little to slow the rally for the staple diet of 3-billion people throughout the world.
    As China, the top consumer, and Vietnam, one of the food’s biggest exporters, continue to plough up their paddies, (…)

  • Deal Maker Details the Art of Greasing the Palm
    7 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - In 1992, Brent R. Wilkes rented a suite at the Hyatt Hotel a few blocks from the Capitol. In his briefcase was a stack of envelopes for a half-dozen congressmen, each packet containing up to $10,000 in checks.
    Mr. Wilkes had set up separate meetings with the lawmakers hoping to win a government contract, and he planned to punctuate each pitch with a campaign donation. But his hometown congressman, Representative Bill Lowery of San Diego, a Republican, told him that presenting (…)

  • Iran: Oil could hit $200 if U.S. pursues sanctions
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iran: Oil could hit $200 if U.S. pursues sanctions
    8/3/2006 5:00:00 PM GMT
    http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=12399
    World oil prices could reach $200 per barrel if the United States pursues international sanctions against Iran, an Iranian official warned on Thursday.
    "The first consequence of these sanctions would be an increase in the price of oil to around $200 per barrel,” Iran’s Foreign Relations Vice Minister Manuchehr Mohammadi told Venezuelan state television. (…)

  • Cheney’s Halliburton Loses Its Iraq Cash Cow
    31 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cheney’s Halliburton Loses Its Iraq Cash Cow By Charlie Cray, TomPaine.com Posted on July 31, 2006
    Recently, the Army announced with much fanfare that it was canceling the monopoly logistics contract that Halliburton/KBR has used to bilk U.S. taxpayers since the occupation of Iraq began. The contract will be broken up and divided among at least three different companies, but it’s not clear that this will make much difference to taxpayers, or even that Halliburton will stop making a (…)

  • Halliburton loses it’s major contracts in Iraq
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Halliburton loses it’s major contracts in Iraq
    Iraq After Halliburton
    by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch
    July 12th, 2006
    The Pentagon has taken an important first step by canceling the contract for Halliburton ’s military logistics contract in Iraq and putting it up for open bid. Halliburton has only itself to blame for shoddy managment, over-charging and thumbing its nose at military investigators. In our three alternative annual reports on Halliburton , CorpWatch has (…)