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  • “Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal Documents
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Buchanan and Stacey Michael
    from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003
    After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
    Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his (…)

  • BUSH-NAZI LINK CONFIRMED
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Documents in National Archives Prove George W. Bush’s Grandfather Traded with Nazis - Even After Pearl Harbor
    by John Buchanan
    WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until (…)

  • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by AMY GOODMAN
    We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies.
    John Perkins describes himself as a former economic hit man - a highly paid professional who cheated (…)

  • After Iraq it is Venezuela
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The next oil confrontation between America and Euro Zone and this time a new super power coalition of India, China, Russia and Brazil makes the difference
    by Sudhir Chadda
    After Iraq it is oil rich Venezuela led by Hugo Chavez that has become the center for confrontation between America and the Euro Zone. Chavez is dead against America and Euro Zone needs him to keep the oil balance - the power symbol in 2005. But this time the equation is a little different. A new regional and super (…)

  • China opens trade with Cuba
    24 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    China, Americans second largest banker was striking a deal on natural resources and also bringing in some of their merchandise to Cuba.
    I’m writing this because the Bush administration with it’s plan to widen the embargo on Cuba has ridiculed itself again.
    At the same time corporate America is moving more jobs into China!
    We also know China has multilateral agreements with Iran and their is hope that
    the Bush administration is more cautious about launching another ambush to a so (…)

  • Flashback:Remember James Bath? Charles "Bill" White does
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Transcript from "The Fifth Estate" Broadcast Wednesday October 29, 2003 http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/
    © CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Republished at sanderhicks.com under the provisions of Fair Use.
    BILL WHITE
    Interviewed by: Bob McKeown
    Charles "Bill" White
    LET’S GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING WHEN DID YOU FIRST MEET JAMES BATH?
    I met him when I graduated from Business School in nineteen seventy-eight. Came down to Houston on an interview.
    AND WHAT KIND OF PERSON WAS HE?
    I was (…)

  • How to withdraw from Iraq without losing our shirts — and our social security too!
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jane Stillwater Let’s see. Bush invaded Iraq shortly after Saddam Hussein changed over from the dollar to the Euro. If the purpose of the war on Iraq was to keep the dollar strong, Bush has been defeated already — no matter how many Iraqis he kills. Bush is like one of those gunfighters in the Old West who swaggers into town to rob the bank and steal the land. But apparently Bush didn’t count on the local ranchers, townspeople and school marms organizing (…)

  • Carlyle Covers Up
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    Less than twenty-four hours after The Nation disclosed that former Secretary of State James Baker and the Carlyle Group were involved in a secret deal to profit from Iraq’s debt to Kuwait, NBC was reporting that the deal was "dead." At The Nation, we started to get calls congratulating us on costing the Carlyle Group $1 billion, the sum the company would have received in an investment from the government of Kuwait in exchange for helping to extract $27 billion of unpaid (…)

  • Halliburton Contracts Bypassed Objections
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By T. Christian Miller, Times Staff Writer
    WASHINGTON - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commanders awarded a lucrative contract extension to Halliburton Co. this month by circumventing the organization’s top contracting officer, who had objected to the proposal, according to documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
    Bunnatine Greenhouse, the Corps of Engineers’ chief contracting officer, questioned a decision by commanders to award a contract extension to Halliburton, the oil services (…)

  • FBI Investigates Halliburton’s No-Bid Contracts
    31 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Solomon
    Inquiry to determine whether pentagon improperly awarded bids.
    The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co., seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices.
    The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton overcharged taxpayers for fuel in Iraq, and it elevates to a criminal matter the election-year (…)