Showing posts with label Halliburton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halliburton. Show all posts

Sunday, November 5, 2006

Contractors fill the vacuum and win wars

On the day it's announced that Saddam will be hanged, we thought it might be a good idea to revisit a terrific new book, License to Kill, by Robert Pelton. We posted about this last month, highlighting the Contractor's Creed (gotta love it!).

Here's a lengthy book review on what the contractors do, who they are, how the work with the CIA, etc.


AT...While some may still not have an interest in understanding the brave new world of private military and security contracting, they can no longer claim they lack the means. If the US intelligence establishment could connect dots as well as Pelton, Osama bin Laden would have been captured years ago.

Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton. Crown Publishers, September 2006. ISBN: 1400097819. Price US$24, 358 pages.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Project Censored's Top 10 stories for the past year

Censored Stories

The 10 stories the nation's mainstream news media ignored, neglected or missed last year

Since 1993, Project Censored has been running not only the stories that didn't get adequate coverage, but the "junk-food news"--the stories that were way, way overblown and filed precious pages and airtime that could have been used for real news.