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From: "Janet M Eaton" <•••@••.•••>
To: A renewed Mai-Not <•••@••.•••>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:31:13 -0400
Subject: Halliburton exposed - 3 articles-MoJo, Baltimore Chronicle, Tom
Englehardt
See excerpts below from the following articles
1. http://www.motherjones.com/index.html
March 13, 2007
The World According to Halliburton
2. http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/031207Lindorff.shtml
DO "U.S. CORPORATIONS" REALLY EXIST?
What's Good for Halliburton (and Cheney) is Good for...Dubai
by DAVE LINDORFF
3. From: "TomDispatch" <•••@••.•••>
To: Janet M Eaton <•••@••.•••>
Subject: [TD] Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit on
Not Forgetting New Orleans
See tom Englehardt's Intro on to Solnit's article - included below
fyi-janet
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http://www.motherjones.com/index.html
March 13, 2007
The World According to Halliburton
Halliburton's pending move forms part of the company's long history of taking
government business while dodging U.S. taxes. Michael Scherer, Mother Jones [see
insert #1]
The World According to Halliburton
Halliburton has been enjoying a good couple of years. Since Septemeber 11th the
Bush administration has awarded Halliburton at least 2.2 billion in defense
related business, mostly to support military operations overseas. The firm also
receives generous federal subsidies for some of its most lucrative pipelines
projects. The tax dollars couldn't come at a better t ime for Halliburton: It's
share pirce has collapsed under the weight of asbestos lawsuits, a federal
investigation into its accounting practices, and a drop in oil prices. But
thanks in part to all the government business, the company maintains offices in
70 countries and enjoys annual revenue of $12.6 billion. Here's a look at where
US taxpayers fott the bill for the firms far-flung empire - and where
Halliburton has set up subsidiaries that are exempt from paying US taxes.
CONTINUE -
http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2003/07/we_455_01.html
THE WORKD ACCORDING TO HALLIBURTON
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2. http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/031207Lindorff.shtml
DO "U.S. CORPORATIONS" REALLY EXIST?
What's Good for Halliburton (and Cheney) is Good for...Dubai
by DAVE LINDORFF
Dear All:
Here is a summary by way of excerpts of the longer article:
Halliburton is the company that has made the most money of any private
enterprise off of the Iraq War--$27 billion to date, most of it in the form of
extraordinarily profitable no-bid contracts (the company earned a record $2.3
billion last year alone). It is also Vice President Dick Cheney´s company. ...
Before, there was always the old argument that "what's good for Halliburton is
good for America.....But with Halliburton now a Dubai corporation, with its tax
obligations now owed to the Dubai Revenue Department instead of the IRS, that
deception is gone.
We know now that when Dick Cheney makes a foreign policy or war policy decision
regarding Iraq or Iran or Saudi Arabia, he is really thinking about what it will
do for Halliburton and Dubai--and for Dick Cheney.
We--and members of Congress, if they still remember how to do their job--ought
to be asking whether Halliburton's move to Dubai has anything to do with
anticipated business should Cheney get his way and the U.S. attacks Iran this
spring. Since such a war would inevitably include the destruction of much of
Iran´s state-owned oil industry, it would represent a huge new business
opportunity for Halliburton, which first and foremost is an oil-services
company.
The American soldiers and marines stuck in Iraq, who have long been led to
believe that they are over there fighting to defend America, should have little
trouble these days seeing that they are really fighting and dying for
Halliburton, Exxon/Mobil and Chevron...and Dubai. - Dave Lindorff,
author, whose latest book is The
Case for Impeachment, co-authored by Barbara Olshansky.
fyi-janet
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Subject: [TD] Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit on Not Forgetting New Orleans
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--snip--
[Notion blog, "An Ambassador, An Iraqi, and a Penguin."]
So Halliburton is leaving the neighborhood. If I were you, I'd start selling.
It's a sign that property values are heading down in looted and Katrina-tized
America. With full protestations that it really isn't going anywhere,
Halliburton, with its $19 billion in Pentagon contracts, with its $2.7 billion
in estimated Iraq overcharges, is moving its headquarters to Dubai, the Las
Vegas of the Middle East where almost anyone is welcome to plot almost anything
on the indoor ski slopes or private mini-islands. If I were the head of Halli!
burton, I'd be heading for Dubai, too, or at least for parts unknown while the
Bush administration is still in office and I still had a roof over my head.
Enron's Ken Lay could have taken a tip or two from Halliburton Chief Executive
David Lesar on the subject. Far too late now, of course. And I wonder whether Al
Neffgen, the ex-Halliburton exec running the privatized company, IAP Worldwide
Services, that was put in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2006 as
part of the privatization of the military, might be considering a holiday there
as well. No mold, no rats (other than the human kind), just honest sun and sand,
surf and turf, oil money and... well, everything that goes with it.
We always knew that there was a link between Iraq, hit by a purely human-made
flood of catastrophe, and Katrina, which had a helping hand from nature.
Halliburton had a hand in both, of course, picking up some of the earliest
contracts for the "reconstruction" of each -- the results of which are now
obvious to all (even undoubtedly from Dubai). The inability of either the Bush
administration or its chronically cost-overrun crony corporations to genuinely
reconstruct anything is now common knowledge. But it's worth remembering that,
though the disaster of Iraq's "reconstruction" preceded it, Hurricane Katrina
was the Brownie-heck-of-a-job moment that revealed the reality of the Bush
administration to most Americans. The various privatization-style lootings and
catastrophes since then have all been clearer for that. Katrina, in fact, has
become a catch- word for them. So when the Bush administration's treatment of
the wounded -- though reported well beforehand -- suddenly became the headline
du jour, it was also a Katrina-comparison scandal. ("Dems Call Walter Reed
Scandal `Katrina of 2007";" The Katrina of Veteran's Care"; "Like Brownie in
Katrina, Rummy did 'a heckuva job.' So has Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley, Army surgeon
general, who commanded Walter Reed from 2002 to 2004.") As Rebecca Solnit so
eloquently reminds us below, however, Katrina isn't simply some comparison point
from the past, a piece of horrific history to keep in mind; it's an on-going,
never-ending demonstration that we have been changed from a can-do to a can't-do
society (except perhaps at the neighborhood level). Katrina, the hurricane, was
then; Katrina, the New Orleans catastrophe, is right now and, given what we
know about government today, that "right now" is likely to stretch into the
interminable future. Solnit is Tomdispatch's ray of hope (and the author of the
remarkable book Hope in the Dark), but also the writer who deals with the
largest of disasters. And here she is, as always not to be missed. Tom
Unstable Foundations Letter from New Orleans
By Rebecca Solnit
Excerpt from Letter from New Orleans
http://tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=175509
Solnit concludes her article as follows:
One hundred and one years after my city was nearly destroyed by the
incompetent response of the authorities to a major earthquake, we are still
sifting out what really happened. In a hundred years, we may see Katrina as a
crisis for the belief that the civil rights movement had moved us past the
debacle on the Edmund Pettus Bridge -- and as a crisis of legitimacy for a
federal government that had done nothing but destroy for five years.
Rebecca Solnit's essay for Harper's Magazine on disaster and civil society went
to press the day Katrina struck New Orleans. She recently trained to join San
Francisco's Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams in the next big earthquake and
hopes to return to New Orleans for a more extended stay in a few months. She is
the author of Hope in the Dark, among other books.
Copyright 2007 Rebecca Solnit
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