Stories by Pratap Chatterjee
Pratap Chatterjee is managing editor of CorpWatch and the author of Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War (Nation Books, 2009).
Posted on Nov 6, 2011, Source: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
The death of Tariq Aziz and his 12-year-old cousin Waheed Khan brought the total number of children killed in drone strikes to 175.
Posted on Oct 24, 2010, Source: The Guardian
The Wikileaks logs provide ample evidence of private security contractors entirely unaccountable for lethal rogue actions.
Posted on Sep 1, 2010, Source: CorpWatch
Whistleblowers charge that instead of actively pursuing fraud, DCAA management was obsessed with signing off on as many audits as possible in the shortest period of time.
Posted on Aug 29, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
Capture/kill teams leave a trail of dead civilian bodies and recrimination in their wake, undermining any goodwill created by U.S. reconstruction projects.
Posted on Feb 7, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
As in the 1960s in Cambodia, U.S. air strikes are having a devastating effect in Pakistan, not just on the targeted communities, but on public consciousness throughout the region.
Posted on Nov 18, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
An eye-opening inside look at how the system of nepotism and corruption in Afghanistan actually works.
Posted on Jun 3, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
Is Halliburton forgiven and forgotten? Despite shocking revelations about its greed and cynicism to US soldiers, the company keeps its contracts.
Posted on Mar 23, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
Parts of Afghanistan that have neither violent Taliban resistance nor much opium trade are virtually ignored by the U.S.
Posted on Mar 12, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
Obama needs to ask his Pentagon commanders this: Can the U.S. military do anything without KBR?
Posted on Sep 23, 2008, Source: IPS News
A million illicit weapons have entered Iraq in the past five years. Now, "missing" guns are fueling conflicts in Iraq and elsewhere.
Posted on Feb 7, 2008, Source: CorpWatch
Bill Gates, anti-Capitalist? Concerns about economic downturn dampen festivities in Davos, Switzerland.
Posted on Dec 13, 2007, Source: CorpWatch
Climate change requires hard solutions that will not come from profit-motivated corporations.
Posted on Sep 26, 2007, Source: CorpWatch
The U.S. is indiscriminately arming Iraqis, destabilizing the country even more.
Posted on Aug 22, 2007, Source: CorpWatch
India's history provides timeless lessons on how (and how not) to confront corporate power with protest, litigation, regulation, rebellion and, ultimately, corporate redesign.
Posted on Apr 30, 2007, Source: CorpWatch
Nobody really knows how much crude oil is being stolen by corrupt corrupt Iraqi and U.S. officials because, four years after the invasion, the oil meters haven't been fixed.
Posted on Jan 19, 2007, Source: CorpWatch
Almost four years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s healthcare system is still a shambles. Dozens of incomplete clinics and warehoused equipment are a testament to the failed U.S. experiment to reconstruct Iraq.
Posted on Jul 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Moazzam Begg, a British citizen, was held at various prisons, including Guantanamo Bay, for over three years before being released without charges. Now free, he shares the story of how he survived.
Posted on Mar 30, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Halliburton is being sued by the family of a truck driver killed in a gun battle for deliberately endangering the lives of its employees in Iraq.
Posted on Mar 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The privatization of military intelligence and interrogation has been a booming business. It may also be the cause of the prison scandals in Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted on Mar 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
A former military interrogator talks about what went wrong at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
Posted on Aug 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Missing: one-third of the Pentagon's equipment and $1.9 billion of Iraqi money. Guess who has it?
Posted on Jul 19, 2004, Source: CorpWatch
The wasteful spending of a North Carolina company awarded a $167 million contract to foster local government provides a window into just what went wrong in Iraq.
Posted on Jun 4, 2003, Source: CorpWatch
Bechtel Corporation has a long history of profiting from their dangerous and expensive nuclear reactors, and shuttling the environmental costs to taxpayers.
Posted on May 22, 2003, Source: deleted
Bechtel's trade show for subcontractors illustrates just how blurred the lines between Wall Street and the Pentagon have become.
Posted on Mar 23, 2003, Source: CorpWatch
While recent news coverage has speculated on the post-war reconstruction gravy train that U.S. corporations stand to gain from, Dick Cheney's former company is already profiting from war time contracts.
Posted on Jul 25, 2002, Source: CorpWatch
The power grab over a proposed trans-Caspian oil pipeline is not just about money -- it's also about geopolitics.
Posted on Jul 25, 2000, Source: CorpWatch
The Houston-based Enron Methanol Plant is the single largest contributor to the political ambitions of George W. Bush. For years, Bush has been granting the company special concessions that allow it to pollute without a permit and has given it immunity from prosecution for violating environmental law.
