Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) announced today that it will present at the Lehman Brothers 2008 CEO Energy / Power Conference on Tuesday, September 2, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. Central Time (11:00 a.m. Eastern Time).
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Public Record Four months before the United States invaded Iraq, the Department of Defense was secretly working with Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, Halliburton Corp., on a secret deal that would give the world's second largest oil services company total control over Iraq's oil fields, according to interviews with Halliburton's most senior executives. Previously undisclosed Halliburton...
CANNONFIRE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some people -- anti-Semites, mostly -- deny that oil theft motivated the decision to invade Iraq. All such "alternative" theories face one problem: The oil was, in fact, stolen -- and Cheney planned the theft well in advance. Previously undisclosed Halliburton documents obtained by The Public Record confirm that controlling the world's second largest oil reserves was a top priority for the Bush administration....
The Economist (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
America's army is relying ever more heavily on private military contractors BLACKWATER and Halliburton are the names most associated with the work of private contractors in Iraq but plenty of other firms have shared the spoils of war. Between 2003 and 2007 America's government lavished $85 billion on federal contracts in Iraq, according to the Congressional Budget Office. America has a rich history...
The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
'Twas oilrig and the slippery Rove Dick jived and Halliburton's wage; All mimsy were the oil groves, and Liberals wrath outraged. "Beware The JabbIraq, my son! the jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware The Chalabi Bird, and shun The FutOilous War is hatched!" He took his Plutonium Sword in hand: Long time the Saddam Foe he sought. So he rested by the 9-11 tree, And stood awhile in thought. And...
Free Internet Press (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Halliburton takes advantage of a European loophole that lets corporations hide beneficiaries and assets. Little is known of a customary European legal practice that offers corporations and individuals an opportunity to profit from assets while maintaining complete anonymity of the beneficiary's identity. This practice is referred to as "Hidden Treuhand" in the English language. The practice of Hidden...
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
As oil prices decline, energy stocks lost their multi-year uptrend and come down quickly. But oil man billionaire T Boone Pickens is buying more. If you like to buy more energy stocks, see what T Boone Pickens is buying. T Boone Pickens owns 27 stocks with a total value of $2.1 billion. These are his buys and sells during the second quarter.
American Power (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
The left-wing meme of neocon war in the Caucasus has yet to spin off into allegations of Bush administration war-profiteering (folks are still stuck on the Halliburton industrial-complex ). That may soon change. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Georgian crisis may give a big boost to U.S. weapons programs: Russia's attack on Georgia has become an unexpected source of support for big U.S. weapons...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
"Four years ago Halliburton called a friend of mine looking to go to college and said that they'd pay him $90,000 if he agreed to drive a truck in Iraq for the private sector. He kept his minimum wage job."
Thomas Palley (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Jamie Galbraith’s recent book describes modern (Bush-Cheney) Republicanism as creating a “predator state”. Its predatory aspects are starkly visible in the gangs of corporate lobbyists who roam Washington DC, the Halliburton Iraq war procurement scandal, and the corruption and incompetence that surrounded the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. However, the broad concept of a predator state [...]
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Image: http://img.iht.com/images/2008/08/12/12contractor-explostion550.jpg Workers for a subcontractor hired by KBR preparing to cap an oil well in Iraq. KBR, formerly a unit of Halliburton, employs about 40,000 people in Iraq. (Graham Morrison for The New York Times) ...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Pallets of cash John Cusack's movie about a future fictitious occupation of a fictitious country, Turaqistan, is premised on the privatization of... well, pretty much everything. In the film a Cheney-like CEO of a Halliburton-like company, Tamerlane, is conducting its own foreign policy-- and war and reconstruction. This morning's NY Times features a story by James Risen on a shocking milestone in...
Nevada Thunder (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
side note: A very interesting article on a subject I have never heard of. I actually read this twice to make sure I understood it properly…….would anyone be shocked if the Dark Lord, I mean Cheney, was a beneficiary in Halliburton’s Hidden Treuhand'? by: Shelley Stark, t r u t h o u t [...]
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
(This should be getting more attention as it speaks volumes about the companies we are hiring to do our dirty work in Iraq and our government's ongoing attempt to cover-up any form of wrongdoing by these private contractor-armies.) Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says By BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER & JUSTIN...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Halliburton takes advantage of a European loophole that lets corporations hide beneficiaries and assets. Little is known of a customary European legal practice that offers corporations and individuals an opportunity to profit from assets while maintaining complete anonymity of the beneficiary's identity. This practice is referred to as "Hidden Treuhand" in the English language. read more
