iraq war

KBR Bans Cell Phones and Silences Rape Victims

by Cara August 8, 2008

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 are notorious for many things.  One of those things is the rape and cover up of rape committed by [...]

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Jamie Leigh Jones May Get Her Day in Court; More KBR Victims Come Forward

by Cara May 13, 2008

Very exciting news: it has been ruled that Jamie Leigh Jones can take her rape case to trial. Jones is the woman who was raped and held hostage by coworkers while working as a KBR contractor in Iraq, only to have KBR cover up the case, “lose” the evidence and try to force her into [...]

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The Cost of Unwed Parenting?

by Cara April 16, 2008

Some conservative wingnut groups funded a study on divorced and out-of-wedlock parenting, and results claim that it costs U.S. taxpayers $112 billion each year. There have been previous attempts to calculate the cost of divorce in America. But the sponsors of the new study, being released Tuesday, said theirs is the first to gauge the [...]

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More Contractor Rape, More Cover Up

by Cara April 5, 2008

I mentioned before that the theme of this year’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month is sexual violence in the workplace. So, let’s talk about it. Another woman has come forward to tell her story about working for KBR in Iraq. She was drugged and brutally gang raped by at least one American soldier and one KBR [...]

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