Grand theft Pentagon : tales of corruption and profiteering in the war on terror /
Grand Theft Pentagon tells the scandalous story of how some of the world's mightiest and must ruthless corporations exploited the tragic events of 9/11 to make billions upon billions in the form of government contracts with the connivance of the Bush administration. In a riveting work of invest...
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| Language: | English |
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Monroe, Me. :
Common Courage Press,
[2005], ©2005
Monroe, Me. : c2005 Monroe, Me. : ©2005 Monroe, Me. : [2005] |
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| Summary: | Grand Theft Pentagon tells the scandalous story of how some of the world's mightiest and must ruthless corporations exploited the tragic events of 9/11 to make billions upon billions in the form of government contracts with the connivance of the Bush administration. In a riveting work of investigative reporting, Jeffrey St. Clair shines a merciless searchlight into some of the murkiest corners of the Pentagon, exposing the sweetheart deals between the defense department and its favorite coterie contractors: Boeing, Bechtel, Halliburton and the Carlyle Group Tells the story of how some of the world's largest corporations exploited the events of 9/11 to make billions in the form of government contracts with the connivance of the Bush administration. St. Clair exposes the deals between the defense department and its favorite contractors: Boeing, Bechtel, Halliburton and the Carlyle Group. – from publisher information Among the many explosive revelations in Grand Theft Pentagon is a firsthand account from an emissary to Afghanistan of how the Bush administration refused an offer by the Taliban to turn over Osama Bin Laden and his top leadership. They wanted total war instead. First on Afghanistan, then Iraq. In shocking detail, St. Clair unveils how the Bush administration hired a team of marketing and PR executives to sell their fraudulent war claims to a panic-stricken public, a complicit congress engorged with arms PAC money and a gullible national press corps. Here you will find scathing portraits of the enablers of this corrupt system - from George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, to Senators Ted Stevens and the pseudo-maverick John McCain - and the war profiteers themselves, from DynCorp and Lockheed to the devious machinations of the RAND Corp and Magnequench, the missile company that outsourced its work to China From the war room at the White House to the boardroom of Halliburton, Grand Theft Pentagon is a harrowing trip through the new imperial order, where the weapons companies make a killing, while the citizens of the world cower under the shadow of perpetual war In the wake of 9/11, the Pentagon was handed a blank check, which it used to resurrect some of the most baroque relics of the Cold War, from the B-2 stealth bomber and the F-22 fighter to the most fanciful of all boondoggles, the $80 billion Star Wars missile defense system. In this hard-hitting expose, St. Clair shows, through the use of the Pentagon's own damning internal documents, that none of these big-ticket weapons systems are needed and that none of them has ever worked as advertised. Indeed, these destabilizing arms programs have backfired, hurling the nation to the brink of bankruptcy and sparking a new global arms race |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 329 p. ; 23 cm 329 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-308) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-308) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages [284]-308) and index |
| ISBN: | 1567513360 (pbk.) 1567513360 9781567513363 |