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). subscribe to Pratap Chatterjee's feed

Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, not Edward Snowden

Posted on: Jun 15, 2013, Source: The Guardian

The firm that formerly employed both the director of national intelligence and the NSA whistleblower merits closer scrutiny.

US Drones Killing Children in Pakistan: One Reporter's Story

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.

Wikileaks Iraq War Logs Reveal Private Military Contractors Killing With Impunity

Posted on: Oct 24, 2010, Source: The Guardian

The Wikileaks logs provide ample evidence of private security contractors entirely unaccountable for lethal rogue actions.

Pentagon Watchdog Misses Billion Dollar Audit

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.

The Secret Killers: Covert Assassins Charged With Hunting Down and Killing Afghans

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.

Could U.S. Air Strikes Push Pakistan into Khmer Rouge Type Genocide?

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.

An Inside Look at Nepotism and Corruption in Karzai's Afghanistan

Posted on: Nov 17, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com

An eye-opening inside look at how the system of nepotism and corruption in Afghanistan actually works.

How to Stay Out of Sight While Making Millions from the War in Iraq

Posted on: Jun 2, 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.

The Taliban and Opium Industry Are Getting U.S. Billions -- Not So Much for the Rest of Afghanistan

Posted on: Mar 22, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com

Parts of Afghanistan that have neither violent Taliban resistance nor much opium trade are virtually ignored by the U.S.

Inheriting Halliburton's Army: What Will Obama Do With KBR?

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?

U.S.-Funded Gun Suppliers Have Created a "Missing" Weapons Disaster

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.

Meeting of Global Titans Tainted by Tanking Economy

Posted on: Feb 7, 2008, Source: CorpWatch

Bill Gates, anti-Capitalist? Concerns about economic downturn dampen festivities in Davos, Switzerland.

Climate Change Fueling Boom in Corporate Greenwashing

Posted on: Dec 13, 2007, Source: CorpWatch

Climate change requires hard solutions that will not come from profit-motivated corporations.

U.S. Exacerbates Iraqi Civil War With Indiscriminate Commando Training

Posted on: Sep 25, 2007, Source: CorpWatch

The U.S. is indiscriminately arming Iraqis, destabilizing the country even more.

Lessons of Empire: How to Unravel an Unchecked Superpower

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.

How Much Iraqi Crude Oil is Being Stolen? Mystery of the Missing Meters

Posted on: Apr 29, 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.

Health Care in Iraq Was Better Under Saddam Hussein

Posted on: Jan 18, 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.

Returning to Life

Posted on: Jul 17, 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.

Driving into Danger

Posted on: Mar 29, 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.

Intelligence, Inc.

Posted on: Mar 6, 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.

An Interrogator Speaks Out

Posted on: Mar 6, 2005, Source: AlterNet

A former military interrogator talks about what went wrong at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

The Thief of Baghdad

Posted on: Aug 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet

Missing: one-third of the Pentagon's equipment and $1.9 billion of Iraqi money. Guess who has it?

Democracy by the Dollars

Posted on: Jul 18, 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.

Bechtel's Nuclear Nightmares

Posted on: Jun 3, 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.

Iraq: A Corporate Gold Mine

Posted on: May 21, 2003, Source: deleted

Bechtel's trade show for subcontractors illustrates just how blurred the lines between Wall Street and the Pentagon have become.

Halliburton Makes a Killing on Iraq War

Posted on: Mar 22, 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.

Afghan Pipe Dreams

Posted on: Jul 24, 2002, Source: CorpWatch

The power grab over a proposed trans-Caspian oil pipeline is not just about money -- it's also about geopolitics.

Dubya in Bed with Environmental Outlaw

Posted on: Jul 24, 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.