http://www.roguegovernment.com/…
06-18-2008
Canberra Times
Australian defence support for United States military operations in the Middle East will be boosted by construction of a new top-secret US military communications base in Western Australia.

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By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Posted on June 15, 2008, Printed on June 16, 2008
It’s just a $5,812,353 contract — chump change for the Pentagon — and not even one of those notorious “no-bid” contracts either. Ninety-eight bids were solicited by the Army Corps of Engineers and 12 were received before the contract was awarded this May [...]

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By Gareth Porter, IPS News
Posted on June 13, 2008, Printed on June 14, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jun 12 — Two key pledges made by the George W. Bush administration on military bases in its negotiations with the government of Iraq have now been revealed as carefully-worded ruses aimed at concealing U.S. negotiating aims from both U.S. citizens [...]

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By Basil Adas, Correspondent
Published: June 03, 2008, 13:42
Baghdad: A proposed Iraqi-American security agreement will include permanent American bases in the country, and the right for the United States to strike, from within Iraqi territory, any country it considers a threat to its national security, Gulf News has learned.

http://www.independent.co.uk/…
Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors
By Patrick Cockburn
Thursday, 5 June 2008
A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.

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Thinking a bit more about the legacy of war measured in terms of the structural remains it leaves behind – maybe even through a specific material like concrete (as if the Bremer Wall were the architectural currency of the Global War on Terror) – not only has GWOT laid the foundations for its own inevitable [...]

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By Elana Schor
The Guardian UK
Friday 29 February 2008
The Bush administration is blocking an inquiry into the delay-plagued construction of the $736 million US embassy in Baghdad, a senior Democrat in Congress said today.

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By Matt Kelley
USA Today
Friday 14 December 2007
The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pentagon investigators reported.

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????By April Howard
????AlterNet
????Thursday 13 December 2007
When the US Air Force Southern Command’s 10-year usage rights for Ecuador’s Manta air base expire in 2009, it can expect to be evicted.
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