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"Not coming soon to a TV near you, especially if you live in the US ...
Iraq for Sale, the latest documentary from Robert Greenwald, tells a depressingly familiar tale of corporate corruption and war-profiteering in Iraq. Focusing on companies like Halliburton, CACI International and Blackwater Security Consulting, it recites a litany of rapacity and exploitation that ought to have American citizens swarming Congress, demanding heads on pikes.
It's all here: Halliburton charging $45 for a six-pack of sodas; undertrained and poorly safeguarded mercenaries earning megabuck salaries that dwarf the pittances awarded to regular troops; gigantic corporate profit margins netted by shafting the recipient at both ends of the process (lousy and dangerous services for mindbendingly exorbitant fees); and an unsupervised, no-bid, payment-guaranteed contracting system that utterly contradicts any defensible notion of free-market capitalism."
Extracto do artigo "Iraq for Sale: As Not Seen on TV", de John Patterson, in The Guardian UK, 6/10
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«The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a tragedy - for Iraq, for the US, for the UN, for truth and human dignity.» Hasn Blix, o autor deste devastador requisitório contra a guerra do Iraque, era em 2003 o chefe da missão das Nações Unidas para a inspecção...
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"Losing Afghanistan", é o título de um editorial do The New York Times de ontem, que vale a pena ler. Sublinha um ponto que eu venho martelando desde 2003 : que ao desviar a acção para o Iraque, sem deixar que se apanhasse Bin Laden e se investisse...
- «um Favor Aos Terroristas»
«By making Iraq a playground for right-wing economic theorists, an employment agency for friends and family, and a source of lucrative contracts for corporate donors, the administration did terrorist recruiters a very big favor.» (Paul Krugman, «Who...
- «ministro Da Ofensa»
É assim que o Detroit Free Press chama a Rumsfeld -- «Secretary of Offense» --, tirando partido da proximidade fonética, em inglês, entre “defense” e “offense”, e pedindo também a sua demissão. «Donald Rumsfeld has to go. The secretary...
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By BRET STEPHENS, WSJ "We're under great threat because we occupy so many countries. We're in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world." So spoke presidential hopeful and libertarian favorite Ron Paul at this week's GOP debate in...
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Iraq for sale
"Not coming soon to a TV near you, especially if you live in the US ...
Iraq for Sale, the latest documentary from Robert Greenwald, tells a depressingly familiar tale of corporate corruption and war-profiteering in Iraq. Focusing on companies like Halliburton, CACI International and Blackwater Security Consulting, it recites a litany of rapacity and exploitation that ought to have American citizens swarming Congress, demanding heads on pikes.
It's all here: Halliburton charging $45 for a six-pack of sodas; undertrained and poorly safeguarded mercenaries earning megabuck salaries that dwarf the pittances awarded to regular troops; gigantic corporate profit margins netted by shafting the recipient at both ends of the process (lousy and dangerous services for mindbendingly exorbitant fees); and an unsupervised, no-bid, payment-guaranteed contracting system that utterly contradicts any defensible notion of free-market capitalism."
Extracto do artigo "Iraq for Sale: As Not Seen on TV", de John Patterson, in The Guardian UK, 6/10
- "a War Of Utter Folly", Ou A Tragédia
«The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a tragedy - for Iraq, for the US, for the UN, for truth and human dignity.» Hasn Blix, o autor deste devastador requisitório contra a guerra do Iraque, era em 2003 o chefe da missão das Nações Unidas para a inspecção...
- Perdendo O Afeganistão E Não Só
"Losing Afghanistan", é o título de um editorial do The New York Times de ontem, que vale a pena ler. Sublinha um ponto que eu venho martelando desde 2003 : que ao desviar a acção para o Iraque, sem deixar que se apanhasse Bin Laden e se investisse...
- «um Favor Aos Terroristas»
«By making Iraq a playground for right-wing economic theorists, an employment agency for friends and family, and a source of lucrative contracts for corporate donors, the administration did terrorist recruiters a very big favor.» (Paul Krugman, «Who...
- «ministro Da Ofensa»
É assim que o Detroit Free Press chama a Rumsfeld -- «Secretary of Offense» --, tirando partido da proximidade fonética, em inglês, entre “defense” e “offense”, e pedindo também a sua demissão. «Donald Rumsfeld has to go. The secretary...
- Ron Paul's Fantasy Empire
By BRET STEPHENS, WSJ "We're under great threat because we occupy so many countries. We're in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world." So spoke presidential hopeful and libertarian favorite Ron Paul at this week's GOP debate in...