Epstein Secrets

life. Late civil rights movement leader Stokely Carmichael perhaps put it best, as quoted in Zirin's book: Of all the people who opposed the war in Vietnam, I think that Muhammad Ali risked the most. Lots of people refused to go. Some went to jail. But no one risk as much from their decision not to go t

ered his own ques=ion: "You bet." "It's not like Dick Cheney or someone like that went and sa=d let's have a war because we want to make money for Halliburton, but it is a pernicious on decision-making," the former Bush official explained. "=nd the fact that they donate so much money to congressional elect

terly naive, or they are complicit too," Wilkerson added. =E2 And some of my best friends work for Lockheed Martin," along with Rayth=on, Boeing and Halliburton, he quipped. Wilkerson — who in the same interview with Salon defended Edward Sn=wden, saying the whistle-blower performed an important service and

ations and terror networks mainly of a radical Islamist bent. It saw the revival of counterinsurgency doctrine, buried in the aftermath of defeat in Vietnam, and a reinterpretation of that disaster as well. Over the years, its chief characteristic became ever clearer: a EFTA00857249 "Groundhog Day" ki

king and prolonged wars as well. Unlike the citizen-soldiers of past eras, the mobilized warrior corporations of America's new mercenary moment—the Halliburton/KBRs (nearly $40 billion in contracts for the Iraq War alone), the DynCorps ($4.1 billion to train 150,00o Iraqi police), and the Blackwater/Xe/Acad

history actually knew that the U.S. air war in Southeast Asia was a dism=l failure. Even as he was telling the media that the saturation bomb=ngs of Vietnam and Laos were "very effective," Nixon was =rivately acknowledging the opposite. "We have had 10 ye=rs of total control of the air in Laos and V.Nam,

=fore 9/11 ever happened and organized to maximize the profits of defense c=ntractors and fossil fuel companies like Vice President Dick Cheney*=99s Halliburton, which made $39 billion in profits over the course of the =onflict. George Bush has a lot to answer for; it now appears that Mr. Blai= does as well.

o. 106 [hereinafter Uzited States v. Nexus Technologies] (private US. company and corporate executives charged with violating FCPA for bribes paid in Vietnam), available at http ://wwwjustice.gov/ criminal/ fraud/ fepa/ cases/nguyenn/ 09-04-O8nguyen-indict.pdf; Indictment, United States v. Esquenazi, supra

er AG, supra note 48. 2» Complaint, SEC v. Halliburton Company and KBR, Inc., No. 09-cv- 399 (S.D. Tex. Feb. 11, 2009), ECF No 1 [hereinafter SEC v. Halliburton and KBR], available at http ://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2009/ comp20897. pdf; Criminal Information, United States v. Kellogg Brown & Root L