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MONEY & POLITICS
Banking on Empire
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=9848
Iraqi ministries will now be able to borrow billions of dollars to buy
much-needed equipment from overseas suppliers but, as Mitch Jeserich
reports, only by mortgaging the national oil revenues through a bank managed
by JP Morgan Chase.
PRESS RELEASE
Investigation Reveals Reconstruction Racket in Iraq
http://www.corpwatch.org/press/PPD.jsp?articleid=9849
The in-depth report by CorpWatch's Pratap Chatterjee and Focus on the Global
South's Herbert Docena, published in the latest issue of Southern Exposure
magazine, is one of the first on-the-ground accounts of how U.S. taxpayer
money given to Bechtel, Halliburton and other companies is being spent.
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