By Karen Houppert | The Nation | Apr. 3, 2008
It was an early January morning in 2008 when 42-year-old Lisa Smith*, a paramedic for a defense contractor in southern Iraq, woke up to find her entire room shaking. The shipping container that served as her living quarters was reverberating from nearby rocket attacks, and she was jolted awake to discover an awful reality. "Right then my whole life was turned upside down," she says.

Fox News | Mar. 31, 2008
Some independent U.S. truckers are planning to stop hauling freight on April 1 in protest of record-high diesel prices that are cutting into profit margins.

By Jonathan | TruthAlliance.net | Mar. 11, 2008
Programming ethics in quesiton for G-Archiver creator John Terry.

By Dan Harris | ABC News | Mar. 7, 2008
Angelo Mozilo, the once-celebrated CEO of Countrywide Financial, may well become the deeply tanned face of the mortgage mess.

By Allison Hoffman | The Associated Press | Mar. 7, 2008
Military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide has pulled its plans to build a training facility in a remote area about 45 miles east of San Diego.

CNN | Mar. 4, 2008
Congressional investigators are in the Cayman Islands this week to determine if some U.S. businesses are taking a vacation from paying their taxes.

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A great satire piece from the Onion pointing out the control that the private company Diebold has over our democratic elections. Sometimes comedy speaks truth best.

The Associated Press | Feb. 26, 2008
Former Halliburton subsidiary KBR Inc. said Tuesday fourth-quarter profit rose 65 percent, lifted by contributions from natural-gas projects, work in Iraq and a tax benefit related to a 2006 asset sale.

AccurateShooter.com | Jan. 8, 2008
The NSSF reports that Citicorp’s Merchant Services Division is refusing to process gun-related customer credit-card sales. This applies both to legal firearms transactions conducted through licensed FFLs as well as ordinary sales of firearms accessories. The first company to be affected by this decision appears to be firearms distributor CDNN Sports, a large retail operation based in Texas. Citi Merchant Services and First Data notified CDNN that its merchant services account would be terminated and funds seized. (Citicorp Merchant Services employs First Data Merchant Services Corporation to handle credit card transactions.)

By Ellen Nakashima | Washington Post | Feb. 13, 2008
The FBI yesterday announced the award of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to Lockheed Martin to develop what is expected to be the world's largest crime-fighting computer database of biometric information, including fingerprints, palm prints, iris patterns and face images.

By Mary Shaw | ThePeoplesVoice.org | Feb. 6, 2008
A recent report from the Labor Department indicated that U.S. employers cut 17,000 jobs in January of this year. According to the Associated Press, this was "the first such reduction in more than four years."

By Maddy Sauer & Justin Rood | ABC News | Feb. 6, 2008
A mother of five who says she was sexually harassed and assaulted while working for Halliburton/KBR in Iraq is headed for a secretive arbitration process rather than being able to present her case in open court.

OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri told AFP on Wednesday that high oil prices were not caused by a shortage of oil supplies and that other factors were to blame."Let me be clear, the high prices which we are witnessing are not because of any shortage of crude oil in the market," he said in a statement emailed to AFP.

For the fourth consecutive day, people waited in long lines Thursday for a shot at a job at a new Wal-Mart in DeKalb County, pushing the total number of applicants beyond 10,000.

By Helena Olivlero | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Jan. 11, 2008

KBR told victim she could lose her job if she sought help after being raped. Investigations are now underway of at least 3 other known cases made public with similar accusations.

By Jonathan | TruthAlliance.net | Dec. 19, 2007