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Halliburtonâs Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraqâwithout Halliburton there could be no war or occupationâto its role in covering up gang-rape amongst its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburtonâs Army is a devastating bestiary of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism.Pratap Chatterjeeâone of the worldâs leading authorities on corporate crime, fraud, and corruptionâshows how Halliburton won and then lost its contracts in Iraq, what Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld did for it, and who the company paid off in the U.S. Congress. He brings us inside the Pentagon meetings, where Cheney and Rumsfeld made the decision to send Halliburton to Iraqâas well as many other hot-spots, including Somalia, Yugoslavia, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, and, most recently, New Orleans. He travels to Dubai, where Halliburton has recently moved its headquarters, and exposes the companyâs freewheeling ways: executives leading the high life, bribes, graft, skimming, offshore subsidiaries, and the whole arsenal of fraud. Finally, Chatterjee reveals the human costs of the privatization of American military affairs, which is sustained almost entirely by low-paid unskilled Third World workers who work in incredibly dangerous conditions without any labor protection.Halliburtonâs Army is a hair-raising exposé of one of the worldâs most lethal corporations, essential reading for anyone concerned about the nexus of private companies, government, and war.
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9781568583921 | 1 edition (Nation Books, February 2, 2009), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Halliburtonâs Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world.
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9781568584430 | Reprint edition (Nation Books, March 23, 2010), cover price $16.95
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9780872864870 | City Lights Foundation, July 1, 2008, cover price $17.95
More than one year after the 'fall of Baghdad,' the reconstruction of Iraq is failing terribly. In this book, Chatterjee delivers an on-the-ground account of the occupation business, exposing private contractors as the only winners in this war. He examines the big failings and even bigger swindles of Iraq's corporate managers, from the dangerous follies of an out-of-touch government-in-exile to the unchecked price gouging by Cheney's successors at Halliburton. He contrasts the employment boom of mercenaries--more than 20,000 soldiers of fortune from apartheid-era South Africa, Pinochet's Chile, and elsewhere--with the crowds of unemployed locals ripe for recruitment to the resistance. He brings us the dilapidated hospitals, looted ministries, and guardedcorporate enclaves that mark the plunderous road to America's 'free Iraq.'--publisher descriptionDiscusses the postwar reconstruction efforts in Iraq, citing significant failures, examining the activities of private military contractors, and assessing the impact of deteriorating security on the reconstruction process.
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9781583226674 | Seven Stories Pr, November 30, 2004, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: More than one year after the 'fall of Baghdad,' the reconstruction of Iraq is failing terribly.
Product Description: Discusses the implications of the Earth Summit. According to one Kenyan Youth delegate, the summit failed to address fundamental issues, including militarism, the regulation of transnational corporations, the democratization of international aid agencies and the inequitable terms of trade...read more
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9780415109628 | Routledge, December 1, 1994, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Discusses the implications of the Earth Summit.
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9780415109635 | Routledge, September 1, 1994, cover price $67.95
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