Iraq For Sale (Video)
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Facts & Research
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BACKGROUND ARTICLES
Contract Sport (2/16/2004, Jane Mayer, New Yorker)
Outsourcing War (3/1/2005, P. W. Singer, Foreign Affairs)
The Other U.S. Military (5/31/2004, BusinessWeek)
The private contractor-GOP gravy train (5/11/2004, Robert Schlesinger, Salon.com)
Outsourcing Blame (5/21/2004, William D. Hartung, TomPaine.com)
Alternet's war profiteering archive
WarSlavery.org resources on human trafficking
REPORTS
War Profiteers: Profits Over Patriotism in Iraq (9/2006, Campaign for America's Future)
How the U.S. Senate voted on war profiteering
How the U.S. House of Representatives voted on war profiteering
Windfalls of War: U.S. Contractors in Afghanistan & Iraq (Center for Public Integrity)
All Iraq/Afghanistan contractors
Outsourcing the Pentagon: Who's winning the big contracts
Executive Excess 2006 (8/2006, Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy)
A Fistful of Contractors: The Case for a Pragmatic Assessment of Private Military Companies in Iraq (9/2004, David Isenberg, BASIC)
Outsourcing is Facilitating Human Rights Violations (2006 Annual Report, Amnesty International USA)
HEARINGS
Accountability for Contracting Abuses in Iraq (9/18/2006, Senate Democratic Policy Committee)
Whether Halliburton Has Failed to Provide Clean Water to United States Troops in Iraq: 4/7/2006 and 1/23/2006, Senate
DPC
Waste, Fraud and Abuse in U.S. Government Contracting in Iraq: 6/27/2005 and 2/14/2005, Senate DPC
Iraq Contracting Practices (2/13/2004, Senate DPC)
Contracting Abuses in Iraq (11/3/2003, Senate DPC)
BOOKS
Iraq, Inc: A Profitable Occupation (11/2004, Pratap Chatterjee)
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (4/2004, P.W. Singer, Brookings Institution)
The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security (7/2005, Deborah A. Avant, Author Q&A)
Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq (8/2006, T. Christian Miller)
Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (8/2006, Robert Young Pelton)
A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq (5/2006, Gerry Schumacher)
Contract Warriors (4/2005, Fred Rosen)
The Best War Ever, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq (9/2006, Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber)