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).
An eye-opening inside look at how the system of nepotism and corruption in Afghanistan actually works.
Posted on Nov 18, 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 Jun 3, 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 23, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Obama needs to ask his Pentagon commanders this: Can the U.S. military do anything without KBR?
Posted on Mar 12, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
A million illicit weapons have entered Iraq in the past five years. Now, "missing" guns are fueling conflicts in Iraq and elsewhere.
Posted on Sep 23, 2008, Source: IPS News
Bill Gates, anti-Capitalist? Concerns about economic downturn dampen festivities in Davos, Switzerland.
Posted on Feb 7, 2008, Source: CorpWatch
Climate change requires hard solutions that will not come from profit-motivated corporations.
Posted on Dec 13, 2007, Source: CorpWatch
The U.S. is indiscriminately arming Iraqis, destabilizing the country even more.
Posted on Sep 26, 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 Aug 22, 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 Apr 30, 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 Jan 19, 2007, Source: CorpWatch
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 Jul 18, 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 30, 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 Mar 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Missing: one-third of the Pentagon's equipment and $1.9 billion of Iraqi money. Guess who has it?
Posted on Aug 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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 Jul 19, 2004, 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 Jun 4, 2003, Source: CorpWatch
Bechtel's trade show for subcontractors illustrates just how blurred the lines between Wall Street and the Pentagon have become.
Posted on May 22, 2003, Source: deleted
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 Mar 23, 2003, 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, 2002, 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.
Posted on Jul 25, 2000, Source: CorpWatch
