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Published by Democracy Now! | By Amy Goodman | Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Ronald Chavez reported to higher authority within the Halliburton chain of command the vulnerabilities at Baghdad Airport regarding to terrorist attacks, according to his father, Eli Chavez. Ronald further stated that higher authority was upset at his recommendations, his father said.

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Published by Special to CorpWatch | By Pratap Chatterjee | Tuesday, March 29, 2005

A grieving family is suing Halliburton for the wrongful death of Tony Johnson, a truck driver killed while en route on the deadliest day the Iraq war has seen so far. Did the company knowingly place their workers in harm's way? The Johnsons -- and the flood of families waiting to file similar lawsuits -- say they did.

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Published by Fiji Times | By | Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Reports said that many security guards recruited from Fiji by Timoci Lolohea's Meridian Services Agency were still unemployed, two months after arriving in oil rich kingdom that borders war-torn Iraq.

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Published by UPI | By Beth Potter | Tuesday, March 29, 2005

In many cases, contractors charge twice for work done, a member of the Sadr City Advisory Council said. Schools cost about $10,000 to fix up, according to previous information from the Ministry of Education. That price tag can include paint, new tile and plumbing work.

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Published by Star Tribune | By Chris Serres | Tuesday, March 29, 2005

An international labor union that has launched organizing drives at Wal-Mart is now taking aim at Target Corp.

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Published by Marine Corps Times | By Robert Gerbracht | Monday, March 28, 2005

We allow our Navy brethren who serve with us to wear our uniforms because they share our sacrifices and our values. But civilian workers do not share those sacrifices. While they may share our values, they do not serve under an oath of fidelity in harm's way, but under a contract based on monetary gain.

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Published by Financial Times | By Eric Jansson | Monday, March 28, 2005

The sale of the Serbian brewery, Beogradska Industrija Piva, seen by some as a key step in economic reform, is being fought by the family that lost the firm when it was seized by communists.

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Published by Newsweek | By Michael Hirsh | Sunday, March 27, 2005

The administration's reluctance to prosecute has turned the Iraq occupation into a "free-fraud zone," says former CPA senior adviser Franklin Willis. After the fall of Baghdad, there was no Iraqi law because Saddam Hussein's regime was dead. But if no U.S. law applied either, then everything was permissible, says Willis.

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