Author Archives: RagBlog

GSA Chief Seeks to Cut Budget For AuditsContract Oversight Would Be ReducedBy Scott Higham and Robert O’Harrow Jr.Washington Post Staff WritersSaturday, December 2, 2006; A01 The new chief of the U.S. General Services Administration is trying to limit the ability … Continue reading →

If you have forgotten that the Miltary Commissions Act allows the detention and torture of any person suspected of being a terrorist, you had best read this carefully and give thought to how you behave. The Torment of Jose PadillaBy … Continue reading →

I still find it unfathomable that modern society cannot eliminate warfare from the lexicon. Women face emotional wounds of warBy SHARON COHEN, AP National Writer Sun Dec 3, 3:54 PM ET CHICAGO – The nightmares didn’t start until months after … Continue reading →

FOREIGN FIRM BIDS FOR CONTROL OF TEXAS FREE TRADE CORRIDORBy Mark Anderson American Free Press has learned that a group of foreign companies, which currently lease a toll road in Indiana and are looking at buying up other highways across … Continue reading →

KBR’s Violations Run Deeper, Widerby Shreema Mehta Dec. 4 – With millions of dollars in alleged contract abuse, former Halliburton subsidiary KBR has become a symbol of the rampant corporate fraud driven by the Iraq war. But a settlement announced … Continue reading →

For years the old pattern went on. People were jaded by megacorporate control of so much of their lives, but couldn’t see how they might take some power back. We decided to launch a counterattack. The result is the world’s … Continue reading →

More Troops Into a Lost War?By WILLIAM S. LIND The latest serpent at which a drowning Washington Establishment is grasping is the idea of sending more American troops to Iraq. Would more troops turn the war there in our favor? … Continue reading →

This is the only coherent analysis we have seen of Rumsfeld’s last (secret) memo before being summarily dismissed from the office of Defense Secretary. Rumsfeld’s Shocking Memo; Over 100 Dead in Sectarian Violence … 1. Rumsfeld doesn’t understand the magnitude … Continue reading →

When psychoanalysing W becomes tiresome, why not start on his faithful pal? This comes from the Australian press. Blair’s false faith in special relationshipJames ButtonDecember 4, 2006 You read the news from Iraq – the death squads, the increasing number … Continue reading →

Don’t ask me, I just found it on YouTube. They’re singin’ a song named “Texas” though, and I figured that had to be good.

Saudis and Iran prepare to do battle over corpse of IraqBy Philip Sherwell in New York, Sunday TelegraphLast Updated: 11:13pm GMT 03/12/2006 The gulf’s two military powers, Sunni-Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, are lining up behind their warring religious … Continue reading →

Here’s something ‘all hat, no cattle’ cowboy George won’t agree to. And this is just the first item on a long list to which W will never agree. Leader of Baathist loyalists cites stringent conditions before any talksThe Associated PressPublished: … Continue reading →