Halliburton Company

RIP, Larry Joe Miggins

Houston's fabled Irishman dies.

New Cracks in the Frack

Pesky little complaints like pollution, flaming water and abandoned homes continue to cast doubt on the argument that drilling into shale will benefit all.

Anyone See Halliburton's Missing Radioactive Rod Lying Around?

Hair Balls has lost car keys, wallets, cats, and once even a rare Monet, but we'd like to think that we'd never lose a "potentially lethal" radioactive rod. But that's exactly what some Halliburton truck drivers did in the desert around Odessa last week, according to news reports. The "seven-inch l ... More >>

Bet on the Rockets

What will the second half bring?

Judge Samuel Kent WikiLeaked: Had Halliburton Conspiracy Theory About His Sex-Abuse Scandal

Today, WikiLeaks released the first few hundred of what promise to be 5 million e-mails belonging to Austin-based global security think tank Stratfor. One concerns not one but two Houston-area shit magnets, one formerly high-powered and one still very much high-powered: Halliburton and disgraced f ... More >>

Blood Money

More than 200 soldiers are suing KBR for knowingly exposing them to toxic chemicals in Iraq, whose effects started with nose bleeds and could end with cancer. KBR says that didn't happen. But even if it did, the company isn't responsible. Taxpayers are.

Joseph Harrell, Waco Minister, Pleads Guilty To Selling Millions of Fake Shares in "Petro America" Investment Scam

Photo by Mandy OaklanderA member of the Ministers Alliance on his way to a meeting at Denny's, in typical Alliance uniform.​Yesterday, a Waco minister named Joseph Harrell pleaded guilty in a Missouri federal court to playing a key role in a nationwide securities scam. Harrell admitted sellin ... More >>

Halliburton Sued For Firing Pregnant Employee

Houston's Todd Kelly sues Halliburton again​We've written a lot about lawsuits against Halliburton/KBR, mistly involving horrow stories coming from employees in Iraq. But the latest is from a Dallas woman, Lynda Darden, who is suing because, she says, the company fired her for getting pregnant ... More >>

Anna Mayo: Another KBR Employee Who Says She Was Raped In Iraq

The suit includes a graphic description of the rape​A Cedar Park woman has filed suit in federal court in Houston against Halliburton and KBR, alleging she was brutally raped while working for the company in Iraq last November.Mayo, 27, says she was raped by a KBR employee who is not named in the ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Bert Long's RED Book", "Group Show: Shoman, Benhelima, Forero, Zet, Wilson & Wolfson",

"Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism With the Yes Men", "Round 32: eco, xiang, echo: meditations on the african, andean & asian

Pappas Files Lawsuit Against BP and Halliburton

The Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, engulfed in flames.Photo courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard​It was only a matter of time before the Gulf fishing industry -- whose entire livelihood has been threatened by the Gulf oil leak -- struck back at the organizations responsible for causing the m ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Bert Long's RED Book", "Group Show: Shoman, Benhelima, Forero, Zet, Wilson & Wolfson", "Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism With the Yes Men"

Lawsuit On KBR's Deadly Iraq Convoys Is Revived

​We have written before about the issues surrounding people who drove truck convoys for KBR/Halliburton in Iraq, including a 2004 feature story.Basically, it was a tough, tough gig. And when six civilian drivers were killed in an incident six years ago, they their survivors sued in federal cou ... More >>

Our Most-Viewed Posts of 2009

Awwwwwww...​When we sat down to assess our most popular posts of the year, the result wasn't entirely unexpected -- a blend of the sublimely bizarre, the achingly silly and the shockingly outrageous news from the year. In short, the average American's news interests in a nutshell. Below are o ... More >>

KBR Rape Victim's Arbitration Award Not So Final Yet

​Just when it looked as if the legal battle between former KBR contractor Tracy Barker and Halliburton, which used to own KBR, was about to come to a multi-million dollar conclusion, filings made today in the rape case seem to indicate there is still some ways to go until it is all over. More th ... More >>

John Cornyn Has KBR's Back In Any Future Rape Cases

​We've written several items about Jamie Leigh Jones, the local woman who is suing KBR over a gang-rape she says happened while she was working for the company in Iraq.The company put up roadblocks to her attempts to resolve the situation and her claims of rampant sexual harassment in KBR camps, b ... More >>

Halliburton Corruption: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

​Earlier this year, Halliburton agreed to pay nearly $560 million in fines to the federal government to end an investigation into its former subsidiary, KBR, and its involvement in bribing Nigerian officials to get construction contracts. It was reportedly the largest fine ever paid by a U.S. comp ... More >>

Movies Houstonians Love: Kingdom of Heaven

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Sole Of Houston: Airline Drive, Part 1

The longest walk in the history of the Sole of Houston requires the longest piece. This being a blog and all, we have decided to break it up into three installments. Coming today, tomorrow and Thursday in this tale of 22-plus miles of concrete, mud, and fairly cold weather: The fending off a pote ... More >>

At Least Some Houston Companies Might Not Fail, Magazine Says

BREAKING NEWS (MUST CREDIT HAIR BALLS!!!) -- The stock market is in trouble. We'd put up some links if anyone was bothering to cover what we, at least, think is an important story.One media outlet that is covering it is Forbes magazine. They've come out with a list of five companies that it might be ... More >>

Houston Company Fails To Bribe Its Way To Success In Iraq

Halliburton Depositions Could Start Soon in Iraq Case

Bayousphere

Don’t Go To Dubai With Doobie In Your Shoes: A Public Service Announcement From Houstoned Rocks

Memories of ACLs Past: The Halliburton Shirt

Killing Fences: Totally Misconstrued

The department of homeland security is doing its best to get its message across

Packing Meat

So Many Bad Jokes, So Little Time

Any Which Way But Juice

Any Which Way But Juice

Don't Read This

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, with Drop Trio

Thursday, December 1, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.

Low-Cost Housing

A home for a buck, with one catch

Who Cares?

Celester Hall went to Afghanistan to help the troops and make his fortune. He came back deaf, in diapers and looking for benefits.

Letters

Letters

Those Damn Kids

In Pasadena, it's those damn adults

Horse Shoed

HPD loses its cool at the Halliburton demonstration

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Spray It Loud

Grafitti collective Aerosol Warfare cans the elections in its new show

Gambling on Iraq

Hundreds of Houstonians have signed up for wartime jobs with KBR. The hefty paychecks come with a scary, bloody price.

Clash Course

Warriors of the right take their battle against the left to the streets of New York

Good Fellows

A snake and a lady in a bikini take up residence at Space 125 Gallery

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Hurtt So Good

A real shake-up at HPD? We thought that was impossible

Party Like It's 1899

Super Bowl week turned out to be a slow one for HPD's vice squad

Spring Thaw

There's actual good news for CITGO's battling refinery union

Summer Games

Everyone's a front-runner in the race to land the Olympics

Same As the Old Boss

A lack of Bush means a lack of news in Houston

Trading with the Enemy

Houston oil companies maintain their profitable ties to Libya, in roundabout ways