01.Oct.2010
The Ledger: USAID $$$$ MIA
$5.2 million is how much of a $329 million USAID contract with Development Alternatives, Inc., may have wound up in Taliban hands, according to an audit. Zahid Elahi, pictured, is DAI’s Pakistan director; the Los Angeles Times says US government auditors found signs of “pervasive fraud” in the company’s Jalalabad office. $10 billion is the [...]
29.Sep.2010
Hillary Hawks Boeing Gear To India
“We think we have the finest military hardware in the world, and if India is upgrading its defense capabilities, they should buy American.” ••• That’s US State Department spokesman Phillip J. Crowley, explaining how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton carried water for American aerospace firms in a meeting Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony. “The ISI [...]
27.Sep.2010
Global Pwnage
$1.12 trillion is the latest official estimate of how much the US government has spent to fight its post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and other sundry majority-Islamic nations, according to the Congressional Research Service. $3 trillion is how much Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimated the Iraq and Afghanistan wars would eventually cost US taxpayers. [...]
