Jamie Leigh Jones

      JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS!!! UPDATE:  KBR/HALIBURTON WORKER RAPED, LOCKED IN  SHIPPING CONTAINER!!!   Posted by Cara , Feministe at 12:51 PM on August 8, 2008. "It shows that when it comes to "RAPE" COVER ~ UP,"  KBR knows what the hell it's doing, and knows that no one will even bother trying to stop them."   2 COMMENTS Jamie Leigh Jones   KBR, the defense contractor doing a lot of heavy lifting in the upholding of our occupation of Iraq, has banned the use of personal cell phones by its employees .   KBR and its previous parent company Halliburton ... Read Full Story

The Daily Show , known in its current incarnation as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , is an American late night satirical TV show that dialed in its probing tragicomedy microscope on Republican's sick and twisted love affair with the likes of a profiteering war industry. ( See the clip here ) It's a shame a fake news show picked this up...while most mainstream media would rather report on f***ing "Balloon Boy." The Gist Republicans lined up in droves to vote against Franken Amdt. No. 2588 to prohibit the use of funds for any Federal contract with Halliburton Company, KBR, Inc., any of ... Read Full Story

Jamie Leigh Jones Well, frumps, another day another little spoonful of insanity. The recent passage of Senator Franken’s amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill 2010 demonstrates, once again, how far the GOP has strayed from the most basic human values in their obsessive zeal to crush the Obama administration and any who support it. Given the number of GOP sex scandals that have come to light over the past year or so, it is looking like the Party of Family Values may be morphing into The Party of Boys Will Be Boys. Since the GOP seems to be rather fixated on the doings of ... Read Full Story

A new Book is out by Pratap Chaterjee exposing Cheney’s dirty little Halliburton secrets, including: • The network of kickbacks, bribes and fraud involving employees and subcontractors of Halliburton/KBR in Kuwait and Iraq. • The inordinate number of no-bid government contracts that Halliburton/KBR has secured. • How Halliburton/KBR botched the repair of Iraq’s oil fields using Iraq’s own money. • The role Halliburton/KBR’s negligence has played in the deaths of American civilians and foreign workers, and the company’s subsequent refusal to acknowledge responsibility. • The “human trafficking” that Halliburton/KBR subcontractors use to lure foreign workers to Iraq with false promises. • Labor exploitation and ... Read Full Story

. I find it stunningly shameful that in 2009, amendments like this are still needed… n 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.” (Jones was not an isolated case.) Jones was prevented from bringing charges in court against KBR because her employment contract stipulated that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) ... Read Full Story