
Source: populistamerica.com
Our fear feeds the terrorist movement, and our over reactions and bad foreign policy both augment the motivation for the Terrorists. Our current foreign policy must change. Guns cannot drive liberty, democracy must be volunteered or it will fail.

Source: The New York Times
IT was one of those stories lost in the newspaper's inside pages. Last week a man you've never heard of — Charles D.

Source: corpwatch.org
Standing in line to get into Tuesday's hearing, I found myself in a strange position.

Source: The New York Times
Less than 24 hours later Major Cockerham was behind bars, accused of orchestrating the largest single bribery scheme against the military since the start of the Iraq war.

Source: Rolling Stone
Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient.

Source: fas.org
The US Senate is placing increased emphasis on exposing corruption and profiteering in military contracting in Iraq.

Source: McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Summoning the ghost of Harry Truman, the Senate's freshman Democrats on Wednesday called for the creation of an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate wartime profiteering in Iraq.

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A look into the criminal minds in the white house and how it leads to the wealth of not only those committing the crimes but also corporations behind the scenes doing the dirty work of those in charge.

Source: counterpunch.org
The issue of war profiteering is like the elephant in the middle of the living room, every member of Congress knows where the funding is going but Americans don't hear them on talk shows letting people know that these kids are being killed in the name of war profits.

A bill being proposed in Arizona would make it a crime to use the name of a dead soldier or a photo for commercial purposes without family permission.

Source: peoplesgeography.com
It has been quite a week for the US Congressional House Appropriations Committee (defense subcommittee), with two investigative journalists delivering their testimonies on war profiteering in the past week.

Source: AlterNet.org
"Iraq for Sale" director Robert Greenwald explains to Congress that the billions that defense contractors and war profiteers are making out of the Iraq war is a madhouse run amuck.

Source: politicstv.com
Progressive film director Robert Greenwald is scheduled to testify at a hearing on Thursday, May 10 about war profiteering. He requested to show a few minutes of one of his films, but Republicans blocked his request. Here's what Congress won't see:

Source: globalresearch.ca
Critics of the recent U.S. wars of choice have long argued that they are all about oil. "No Blood for Oil" has been a rallying cry for most of the opponents of the war.

Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive
As Congress is threatening to set a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq the Bush Administration is stepping up deployment of its own private army of independent mercenaries to augment to so-called surge in Iraq

Source: Christian Science Monitor
The swimming pool at the new Iraq police academy in the Baghdad Green Zone is an impressive, Olympic-size facility. It might be a good place to relax after a day spent training to face Iraq's dangers.

Source: BBC News
A US court has charged three reserve army officers and two civilians with using millions of dollars of Iraq reconstruction money for personal gain.

Source: leahy.senate.gov
Signaling a renewed emphasis on combating corruption at home and abroad, incoming Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), introduced a package of bills Thursday targeting corrupt officials and private companies seeking to defraud American taxpayers and troops.

Source: Independent.co.uk
The Government has been accused of reneging on pledges to control private security companies operating in Iraq because it wants to "privatise the war" as part of its exit strategy.

Source: tompaine.com
What follows are 10 proposed congressional hearings for the new Democratic House that could address the urgent but overlooked issues of war, climate change and economic inequality.

Source: msmagazine.com
Robert Greenwald's new film, "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers," will make you sad. Then it will make you mad. Then it will make you furious.

Source: AlterNet.org
Bush administration hawks are getting profit-hungry companies like CACI to do their dirty work in the war zones of the New American Empire. And we're footing the bill.

Source: warprofiteers.com
The official headquarters for a 300-person intelligence support operation in Iraq is discreetly located in a two-story red building in a business park in Chantilly, Virginia, just outside the border fence of Washington, DC's Dulles airport.

Wherever people fight for their religion, there cannot be a clear winner; only the fostering of deep hatred and desire for revenge in the vanquished, injured and defeated.

Source: AlterNet.org
Just months ago, bulletproof vest-maker David H. Brooks was living large, having raked in millions selling the military body armor. But it was his last hurrah