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Solution: How the Government Can Stop Doing Business With Risky Contractors
It is very hard for the federal government to have a successful criminal or civil prosecution of their contractors and it is the hardest to do with the Department …
If It Sounds Too Good … What You Need to Know, but Don’t, About Privatizing Infrastructure
Remember the old joke about some sharpie who takes innocents by “selling” them the Brooklyn Bridge? By the time the poor guy finds out he was taken, the crook …
KBR’s Foreign Contractors at Guantanamo Spared Controversial Anti-Malarial Drug Given to Detainees
The Defense Department has claimed it took the unprecedented step of forcing all “war on terror” detainees sent to Guantanamo in 2002 to take a high dosage of a …
Solution: How the Government Can Stop Doing Business With Risky Contractors
It is very hard for the federal government to have a successful criminal or civil prosecution of their contractors and it is the hardest to do with the Department …
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Education Reforms Unveiled by Duncan, Democratic Senators
Washington - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and a group of Democratic senators this morning embraced a slate of education reforms that move away from rigid testing and …
Michael Moore: People Still Have the Power (Video)
More GRITtv “This is a movement that is not going to stop,” says filmmaker Michael Moore of the uprising in Madison, Wisconsin (and across the country—all 50 …
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How Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting Government and Polluting for Free (Part 2)
A protester in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, holds a Koch Industries-controlled marionette of Gov. Scott Walker on February 26, 2011. (Photo: eaghra)
How to Read Gates’ Shift on the Wars
In Establishment Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates enjoys a charmed life based on a charming persona. The Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) is always ready with fulsome praise for his …
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KBR’s Foreign Contractors at Guantanamo Spared Controversial Anti- Malarial Drug Given to Detainees
The detention center at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in an Oct. 4, 2007 file photo. Harsh interrogation techniques there have drawn fire. (Photo: Todd Heisler / …
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News in Brief: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Westboro Baptist Church, and More
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Westboro Baptist Church