Thursday, December 01, 2005

KBR Paying Slave Wages

From a breaking story by Pamela Hess that lifts the veil on Halliburton contracts:

The U.S. military has paid Halliburton subsidiary KBR about $12 billion so far for so-called logistics support to U.S. military personnel in Iraq, the largest contract of its kind ever...

While the United States spends billions on troop support in Iraq, the people serving the meals, scooping the ice cream, and washing the dishes make as little as 50 cents an hour.

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