Apparently the multi-billion-dollar no-bid contracts weren’t enough. Reuters reports that the U.S. Army has decided to award a Halliburton subsidiary $9.4 million in bonus payments for its work in Kuwait and Afghanistan, and plans to assess more projects for “bonuses that could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Read moreFebruary 22, 2005 Hon. Bill Nelson United States Senate 716 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Nelson:
Read moreYou may recall that we gave this week’s “foot-in-mouth” award to SAMHSA Administrator Charles G. Curie. Mr. Curie insisted that a private group being contracted for a conference seminar on suicide change the name of the seminar so that it would not include the words, “Gay / Lesbian / Bisexual / Transgender. They have backed off this demand.
Read morePresident Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security by transferring risk onto the nation’s elderly is proving a hard sell. Without public support, conservatives have turned to dirty tricks to try to sway public opinion. But no amount of deceptive advertising can mask the fact that Americans don’t want this risky plan.
Read moreEuropean negotiations with Iran over nuclear weapons will only succeed if “the United States joins in and throws its weight behind it,”
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