TelePolis writes about the Bilmes/Stiglitz report The Economic Costs Of The Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After The Beginning Of The Conflict. ¹
The Economic Costs Of The Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After The Beginning Of The Conflict
Note that Wolfowitz is now head of the World Bank.
TelePolis also has an article about the current corruption scandal in the US, in English:
The pressure Abramoff and his cronies brought to bear on government officials with regard to regulation in the Marianas is an example of a nexus between Congress and the Bush administration and the Abramoff corruption. Since the Northern Mariana Islands are a US territory, clothing made there can have a label that says “Made in the USA”. Name brand clothing manufacturers would use the factories there. Conditions in the factories, however, approached slave labor conditions, as workers were “indentured aliens” and had no labor rights. They were working to pay off the loans that they had taken to come to the islands. To maintain these conditions on behalf of his Island clients, Abramoff had numerous contacts with Bush administration officials, both when Bush was governor of Texas, and then when Bush took office in 2001. [...] *A serious question raised by all this is where is the press?* ²
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