Iraq, Inc. : a profitable occupation
Pratap Chatterjee
Bok Engelsk 2004
| Utgitt | New York : Seven Stories Press , 2004
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| Omfang | 247 s.
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| Opplysninger | Innhold: Introduction ............ . ............. 7. Chapter One: Operation Sweatshop Iraq .......15 Chapter Two: Reconstruction Racket .........61 Chapter Three: Soldiers of Fortune ..........103 Chapter Four: Shadow Government .........157. - Sammendrag fra utgiver: 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 guarded corporate enclaves that mark the plunderous road to America's "free Iraq."--Publisher description.
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| Emner | Iraq - Politics and government
Postwar reconstruction - Finance - Iraq Entreprenørskap Gjenoppbygging - Irak Vis mer... Irakkrigen 2003
Profitering Iraq - Politics and government - 2003 Postwar reconstruction - Iraq - Finance. |
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| ISBN | 1-58322-667-2
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