Thanks for the hefty contracts

Afghanistan is liberated and prospering, according to the Australian government. But what is the real situation with the country’s reconstruction? Corpwatch issues a damning report that catalogues gross incompetence and corruption by Western multinationals tasked to rebuild the shattered nation: Massive open-ended contracts have been granted without competitive bidding or with limited competition to many…

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– The BBC proves its pro-Israel bias. – A law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, John Yoo, talks at the American Enterprise Institute and calls for the assassination of more suspected “terrorists.” – The Australian’s Paul Kelly dissects Mark Latham’s forthcoming personal diaries (disclosure: it’s being produced by my publisher, Melbourne University…

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