Halliburton Company

Declassified KBR Contract Shows How It Gets a Free Pass for Willful Misconduct

These dudes know how to write a sweet contract.​A KBR government contract protected the company from liability for injuries or deaths caused by willful misconduct, according to recently declassified Army documents. Although the existence of the clause was revealed as a part of a lawsuit file ... More >>

UGK's Top 10 Most Insightful Songs, Part 1

blastro.com​There's a big difference between being a fanatic and fan of someone's music. We all know this, but let's spell it out for the slow kids in class. For instance, Rocks Off is a fanatic of Death Cab for Cutie. We love their deep cuts as much as the widely known "Soul Meets Body." We ... More >>

Jamie Leigh Jones Rape Suit: Jury Rules in Favor of KBR

Jamie Leigh Jones had a long wait for her day in court.​A federal jury rejected claims by Jamie Leigh Jones, who says she was gang-raped as a KBR employee in Iraq and then mistreated by the company. The jury found she was not raped, and KBR did not commit fraud. Jones, 26, sued KBR/Halliburt ... More >>

Jamie Leigh Jones Finally Gets Her Day In Court Against KBR

Jamie Leigh Jones' fight finally finds a courtroom​After years of delays, today Jamie Leigh Jones is finally getting her day in court against Halliburton and KBR. Jones -- we've done a number of stories on her -- has become famous through her attempts to hold the company responsible for the g ... More >>

Laura Resendez: Another Woman Sues Over Alleged Sexual Assault In Iraq

Not only the big players get hit with Iraq sex-abuse suits​Houston-based energy services companies have gotten plenty of ink over the past several years due to allegations and accusations that male employees working in places such as Iraq have raped and abused their female co-workers. Much of it i ... More >>

Sushi Surprise

This nondescript-looking restaurant is serving the real thing.

Swanita Taylor: Yet Another Woman Suing KBR Over Rape And Other Mistreatment

They delivered in the Global War on Terror​Swanita Taylor, a former employee of KBR, was taking a break from her job doing laundry at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan when a man suddenly came up from behind her.He forced her face down into a table with one arm while he used the other to grab Taylor ... More >>

Corporate Takeover

The Yes Men take on companies using their own tools.

Oil Spill Central: Right Here In Houston!!

Gushing oil is not always a good thing, Houston companies find​Louisiana, not Texas, will be feeling the effects of the massive oil spill in the Gulf -- unless you count the indirect fallout, and in that case we are Oil Spill Central.Lawsuits are already being filed in regards to the explosion and ... More >>

"Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men"

Notorious protesters get the retrospective treatment

Jeff Skilling Gets Even More Desperate To Prove Houston's Full of Hatahs

​Today is the big day before the U.S. Supreme Court for Jeff Skilling, former Enron exec, former Manhattan party animal, current federal inmate.Among other things, Skilling's lawyers are arguing that his federal trial should have been moved from Houston because we all were so affected by Enron tha ... More >>

No Justice

We've bailed out the banks. When do we go after the crooks behind our financial collapse?

Five Post-Political Careers As Bad As Appearing On Dancing With The Stars

Most politicians, once their days in government service are over, go on to less public but nonetheless luractive careers in the private sector. They serve on corporate boards, become presidents of universities, or enjoy a quiet retirement. Sure, they can't all be Jimmy Carter, parlaying a lengthy p ... More >>

KBR In Iraq -- Come For The Nation-Building, Stay For The Brothels

Jo Frederiksen of The Woodlands has joined the ever-growing number of women who claim they were sexually abused and harassed in Iraq under the watch of their former employer, Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root. She recently filed a lawsuit in Harris County District Court against the company. ... More >>

Houston 101: Where Kingmakers Reigned And Plotted

For decades, vital issues affecting the U.S. and Texas were hashed out in Suite 8-F of the Lamar Hotel in downtown Houston.The suite had only two rooms and a kitchenette and it was decorated in whatever the relevant time period's definition of "tacky" was, but it became the Unofficial Capital of Tex ... More >>

Getting Schooled

A group of former condo owners say SMU defrauded them of their homes to make way for the new Bush library.

Tea Parties and Tex-Mex:

There's always someone offended over something these days

KBR's Iraq Adventure Now Includes Child Porn

KBR (Halliburton to the old-schoolaz) has had its share of troubles on its way to making untold billions of dollars of profit in Iraq.There's the rape and sexual harassment (Female and male-on-male!). There's the electrocuting soldiers. There's the dogs running around chomping on human remains inten ... More >>

Yay! Houston's KBR Gets Another Iraq Contract!

UPI (Motto: "Yes, we're still around") is reporting that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a "follow-on" contract to Houston's KBR (Halliburton) to continue work on a convoy supply camp in Iraq.And why not?It's not like KBR has senators demanding investigations into allegations that soldi ... More >>

Ike, Cancer, KBR and Oysters

Waking Life

Alleged KBR Rape Victim Sues the U.S.

2008 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

A preview of the 60 bands and five DJs that are taking over downtown this weekend

Houston Activist Deported from Australia, the Movie

Death Threats and TAKS Tests

Some TAKS tests are murder

No End in Sight

Breaking out of the pack of Iraq war docs, No End in Sight devastates

Who Killed Brad Will?

Mail Call

On the Fence

Tough Guys

Full pads, full contact, no slackers allowed

FYI

The Cost of Doing Business

An oil-field services employee from Texas is shot down on the streets of Nigeria, martyr to someone's cause

But the Big Game Was On...

Black-Ass Fleas

Are they sellouts -- or just really bad rappers?

From Houston with Love

The city sends a special something to Africa

"I Raq and Roll" vs. "We Can't Make It Here"

Two Houston-connected musicians offer up different takes on the war. One veteran tells Racket which he thinks is better and why.

Letters

Krupuk, Sambal and Heineken

Yanti's Indonesian food takes you back to the plantation

Letters

News to Use

A Pearland guy causes a Beltway firestorm

Letters

Letters

Fever Pitch

Houston has no equal when it comes to hankering for war, a study finds

Welcome to Fire Island

While communities across the country block LNG terminals, Quintana just shrugs

Perfect Fit

Metro's new president already has a Houston attitude

Hit the Road, Jack. Permanently.

According to former Houstonians the Business Machines, that's the only way to get a career

The End of the World As We Know It

Armageddon comes for the current incarnation of Earthwire.net

Screw SXSW

We've got South By Due East

Beating the Bush

Take one tax rebate, a Houston man advises, and apply liberally

Psychic Agenda

Kim O'Neill

Larry in Limbo

Is little guy Larry Duncan being made to suffer for the big guys' sins?

The King and His Courts

Traffic-ticket lawyer David Sprecher is a master at beating the system. But the system may need him more than his clients do.