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Foreign Policy Journal
March 24, 2017
U.S. weapons flow to Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Turkey, not to mention Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, and to non-governmental organizations that the U.S.
Scoop.co.nz
March 24, 2017
U.S. weapons flow to Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Turkey, not to mention Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, and to non-governmental organizations that the U.S.
ch-aviation
March 14, 2017
"Since the commencement of Liepaja Airport reconstruction, the resumption of regular flights has been a highly anticipated event for the residents of the city, especially entrepreneurs," Uldis Sesks, the Chairman of the Liepaja City Council, said ...
WPRO
March 14, 2017
With a goal of reducing that workforce, Trump imposed a freeze on new hires, which could cut the number of employees while increasing reliance on contractors. The White House said the ... The new ban doesn't include Iraq and specifically exempts green ...
FinalCall.com News
March 14, 2017
The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has found massive fraud, waste, and abuse of reconstruction funds, according to the center," said the report. "In 2011 the group released figures for a range of human and economic costs associated ...
Clay Center Dispatch
March 13, 2017
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With Monday's announcement that Baton Rouge-based U.S. Attorney Walt Green has resigned, all three Louisiana-based U.S.
Salem-News.Com
March 5, 2017
While at El Toro in January 1991, the Marine Corps Inspector General had access to his flight logs, travel orders, and supporting documentation and easily dismissed any allegation of misuse of government aircraft.
Lexology (registration)
February 2, 2017
The major issues raised in some of the more notable claims include claim accrual, the interpretation of a claim, the proper scope of a claim, the binding nature of a contract, and the impact of contractor compliance on a claim. Below is a summary of ...
Mundo Agua y Saneamiento
February 1, 2017
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 27 to suspend refugee arrivals and impose tough control on travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. But the president and his team have strongly defended theÃÂ ...
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
February 1, 2017
Pervasive socioeconomic deficiencies, polarization, and repression have resulted, leading to unprecedented state disintegration, particularly in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. These forces are in turn ... If any semblance of order is to return after ...
The Guardian
February 1, 2017
It highlights the Canadian government's decision to debar contractors from participating in government procurements for 10 years after a contractor or its affiliate has been convicted of an "integrity offence". Integrity offences encompass ... sham ...
SaintPetersBlog (blog)
January 30, 2017
Large airport protests erupted starting Saturday, a day after Trump signed the order banning travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen. The president also suspended the U.S. refugee program for four months. A ...
Florida Politics (blog)
January 30, 2017
Large airport protests erupted starting Saturday, a day after Trump signed the order banning travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen. The president also suspended the U.S. refugee program for four months. A ...
ch-aviation
January 27, 2017
Ramenskoye/Zhukovsky airport has lost its only domestic flight, with UVT aero (UVT, Bugulma) pulling out of the Kazan Int'l route.
GCR
January 27, 2017
The government of Iraq yesterday signed a $1.4bn deal with General Electric (GE) for the construction of two power plants to help tackle the country's dire electricity shortages.
Eurasia Review
January 25, 2017
These reconstruction specialists should be supported by police experts who will isolate the criminal elements in Somalia and Saudi Arabia who are financing misguided youths to maintain the climate of terror and fear in Somalia and East Africa.
The Intercept
January 24, 2017
The first three items on the RSC list are "automatically suspend Davis-Bacon prevailing wage laws in disaster areas," a reference to the law that required federal contractors to pay a living wage; "make the entire affected area a flat-tax free ...
LobeLog
January 24, 2017
According to the Government Accountability Office, "As of mid-2016, U.S. Central Command reported that there were 2,485 DOD contractor personnel in Iraq, as compared with a force management level of 4,087 U.S. troops in Iraq. ... As Bloomberg reported ...
DAWN.com
January 21, 2017
More than half of US reconstruction aid since 2002 has gone into building, equipping and training Afghan forces, but they are far from capable of securing the country.
DAWN.com
January 21, 2017
More than half of US reconstruction aid since 2002 has gone into building, equipping and training Afghan forces, but they are far from capable of securing the country.
Jacobin magazine
January 18, 2017
Following the Iran-Iraq War and the death of the revolutionary patriarch in June 1989, many wondered if the revolutionary state and its institutions could survive without the uniquely charismatic Ayatollah Khomeini.
The National Interest Online
January 18, 2017
The poppy crop, grown mostly in Pashtun areas, is the backbone of the Pakistan-Taliban terror networks and makes systematic corruption a main force in a large sector of the Afghan economy. The political system ... Recall that after the 2001 attacks on ...
Center for Research on Globalization
January 17, 2017
The conclusion will suggest that the Pan African movement will rise to the challenges posed by the current moment and the real push for reconstruction and transformation in Africa will accelerate in this period. .... The US uses the institutions of the ...
PRI
January 17, 2017
A region once held up by the US as a beacon of hope in a broken Iraq, Kurdistan has instead - in oil's name - fallen victim to corruption and war. The oil and gas .... At the top of the map was the name of a group that had been working on Iraqi ...
Den of Geek US
January 13, 2017
Kirk Douglas' star quality sizzles off the screen in this gripping thriller; he plays Colonel 'Jiggs' Casey, who becomes suspicious of some weird goings on with the Joint Chiefs of staff (led by Burt Lancaster as General Scott). He concludes ... When ...
The Diplomat
January 11, 2017
With that frame in mind, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
Al-Fanar Media
January 11, 2017
As the world watches what seems to be a quieting down of the war in Syria, many policymakers have begun to ask questions about the country's reconstruction. The same can be said of Iraq or Yemen, where wars rage unabated, yet reconstruction ideas,ÃÂ ...
The Intercept (blog)
January 11, 2017
Sessions would as attorney general not only finalize the mortgage securities fraud case, but also complete an investigation into the banks' "mirror trades" that aided money laundering by Russian nationals, among others.
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
January 9, 2017
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president whose support for social freedoms and outreach to the United States made him a powerful ally of moderates despite allegations of corruption and authoritarianism, died Sunday. The cause was a heart ...
Middle East Online
December 15, 2016
A win for Assad would also mean that international investors and donor organisations, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, would stay away because of the regime's abject human rights record and ingrained corruption, predicts Stephen ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
December 9, 2016
The plight of the Yazidis made international news in August 2014 when IS entered the Sinjar area in northern Iraq. The Yazidis fled to the mountains with barely enough food and water to last them a day or two, while behind them thousands were killed ...
WEEI.com
December 7, 2016
He's he's nodding no strings had no while saying yes not and I'm the fraud guys that took his heart's rep three year teacher knows your and it's like always it's a lot out of somebody's unable to handle the heat it's entertaining and this is okay I'll ...
LobeLog
December 7, 2016
Long identified with the war in Iraq and the US-NATO counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, the phrase "nation-building" has renewed currency as the U.S.
Frontera News
December 6, 2016
However, Dahlan and his allies will attempt to impact Fatah from an external position, having been barred from attending Fatah's Central Committee 7th General Congress on November 29th. President Abbas' strategy of isolating Dahlan .... Corruption and ...
Global Risk Insights
December 4, 2016
However, Dahlan and his allies will attempt to impact Fatah from an external position, having been barred from attending Fatah's Central Committee 7th General Congress on November 29th. President Abbas' strategy of isolating Dahlan does have the appealÃÂ ...
Asia Times
December 4, 2016
The ground situation continues to signal a gradual and substantial increase not only in terms of the territory the Taliban controls but also in terms of their role in Afghanistan's reconstruction. Ironic though it ... ANDSF, even with brand new ...
The New Yorker
December 4, 2016
Since the Vietnam War, the U.S. military has shied away from body counts as a barometer of success, but Lieutenant General Sean MacFarland, the commander of the U.S.
Salon
October 21, 2016
This war has been a costly and deadly fraud that the U.S. corporate news media is ignoring and the two major-party candidates have yet to even mention because the truth about it is so awful.
ABC Online
October 18, 2016
Professor Ransley said the Costigan inquiry into corruption on the Melbourne waterfront similarly achieved far-reaching outcomes because it changed tack.
Antiwar.com (blog)
October 18, 2016
The U.S. spends spends $5 billion of your tax money a year in "aid" to Afghanistan, plus billions more for the cost of the thousands of American troops and Pentagon-sponsored military contractors there. ... Transparency International ranks Afghanistan ...
The Boston Globe
October 17, 2016
In sharp contrast, the George W. Bush administration cut taxes after the invasion of Afghanistan, in 2001 and again, in 2003, when we invaded Iraq. ... Instead, our small volunteer army is supplemented by a large shadow force of private contractors ...
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)
October 15, 2016
Who has launched the wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria on the basis of well-known lies? ... And all the banks which are allegedly too big to fail, are counterparties in Deutsche Bank's derivatives contracts, and can sink together with it ...
Socialist Worker Online
October 11, 2016
An assortment of U.S., British and Iraqi military forces and militia fighters from around the region are preparing an offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, which fell under the control of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) two ...
Center for Research on Globalization
October 11, 2016
It now appears, based on evidence gathered by a federal inspector general, that the whole undertaking was, and remains, an incredibly expensive disaster that has actually made Afghanistan more corrupt than it was before the US invasion back in 2001 ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
October 11, 2016
In one of his most stunning disclosures yet, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) revealed that, while the US Forces-Afghanistan reported that there were 319,000 Afghan soldiers, the actual number may only be 120,000 ...
Biddeford
December 31, 1999
The school department is working with Oak Point Associates, a Biddeford architecture firm, to submit an application for school construction funds from the Maine Department of Education. (Anthony ... (Anthony Aloisio photo) The Courier began covering ...
«Market Leader»
December 31, 1999
However, there was a pause in the Ukraine-IMF talks due to the government's inefficiency in fighting corruption to get a loan.
ReliefWeb (www)
September 22, 2016
Focusing on international peace and security, world leaders stressed the need to curb terrorist attacks, end ongoing conflict, resolve the refugee crisis and reform the Security Council, as the General Assembly continued its annual debate today ...
Slate Magazine
September 22, 2016
No two individuals, including Haiti's own leaders, enjoyed more power and influence than the Clintons in the morass of the failed reconstruction following the deadly Jan. 12, 2010 ... A year before he became Trump's campaign "CEO," Breitbart News ...
New York Magazine
September 22, 2016
The misappropriation of many billions of dollars by contractors in Iraq, much of which was awarded without bids or any recordkeeping.
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