Private Enterprise
The Bush Administration has paid Blackwater more than $320 million since June 2004 to provide “diplomatic security” services globally … Six years ago the government paid Blackwater less than $250,000 … According to the...
Daily Archive: August 10, 2006
Blame Canada? No, Blame Bedroom Furniture Direct and CSN Stores
Over a month ago I ordered this “Maple Sonoma Platform Captain’s Bed” from Bedroom Furniture Direct, a front company for CSN Stores, a low-end online “niche” retailer run by Niraj Shah. BFD was cheaper...
A River Runs Through It
Israeli bombing has knocked out irrigation canals supplying Litani River water to more than 10,000 acres of farmland and 23 villages in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley … The damaged or broken facilities...
Back Once Again, the Renegade Sadr
More people in Baghdad are being killed by Shiite death squads than by al-Qaeda and Sunni insurgents … “The conflict here is transitioning from an insurgency against us to a struggle for a division...