[North-NV-Greens] [Laborgreens] Fwd: [corp-watchers] War Profiteers Website Launched

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>New War Profiteer Website Launched on Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
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>Oakland, CA, March 19, 2004: Exactly one year after the United States
>launched the dawn invasion of Iraq, war profiteering by multinational
>companies is at an all-time high with military contractors dramatically
>boosting revenues by 19% over 2002.
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>Today Corpwatch, an Oakland, California, based non-profit is launching a
>brand new version of the popular War Profiteers website to track these
>military contractors on a regular basis. The website, which can be found
>at http://warprofiteers.com, is the one-stop shop for communities, citizens,
>taxpayers, policy makers, media, students and activists to learn about the
>new merchants of global conflict.
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>ìProfiting from killing is wrong. What makes it even more outrageous is
>that taxpayers have to foot the bill. We intend to investigate these
>abuses and inform the public about what these companies are doing. This
>new website will be the premier place for the pubic to find out what is
>happening behind the scenes of the so-called war on terrorism,î said
>Pratap Chatterjee, program director at Corpwatch.
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>Today one in ten personnel in the 2003 invasion of Iraq come from private
>industry, a dramatic ten-fold increase over the previous Gulf War in 1991.
>Not only were most of these employees drawn from the biggest military
>contractors in the United States: the company that won the most new work
>was the company that the Vice-President Dick Cheney headed up before he
>took office: Halliburton Corporation and its subsidiaries (e.g., Kellogg,
>Brown, and Root) have won over $8 billion in contracts. Their military
>revenue in 2003 of $3.9 billion was a staggering 700% higher than the
>previous year!
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>The new website will feature weekly updates and regular investigative
>features from our new military researcher, Adam Clay Thompson, based in
>Washington DC. A special ìFocus on Iraqî section will provide the latest
>news about companies profiting from the continued occupation of that
>country, continuing Corpwatchís award winning coverage of companies like
>Halliburton and Bechtel.
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>In addition, it will have selected profiles of major war profiteers and
>explanations of the main sectors: weapons making, security, intelligence,
>military logistics, reconstruction, policy & planning, multilateral and
>bilateral finance and the mineral extraction industry. The website will
>also offer updated factsheets, action items and a calendar of events.
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>The War Profiteers web site was originally created to distribute the
>popular War Profiteer deck of cards, which has sold over 10,000 sets to
>date. This deck will is available for a donation to the Ruckus Society,
>one of the original creators of this popular game.
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>Corpwatch mission: CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through
>education, network-building and activism. We work to foster democratic
>control over corporations by building a diverse movement for human rights
>and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice.
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>GO TO: http://warprofiteers.com
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>1611 Telegraph Avenue., #702
>Oakland, CA 94612 USA
>Tel: + 1 510-271-8080
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>http://www.warprofiteers.com
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Paul Etxeberri

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