Merchants of Death — A List

These are the 18 most prominent profiteers that the Bush administration has unleashed on Iraq.

  • Alliant Technologies (ATK)*
  • Halliburton
  • Kellogg, Brown & Root
  • Bechtel Group Inc
  • MCI WorldCom
  • Stevedoring Services of America
  • Abt Associates Incorporated
  • Black & Veatch Holding Company
  • Creative Associates Incorporated
  • International Resource Group
  • Louis Berger Group
  • Menlo Worldwide Forwarding
  • Parsons Corporation
  • Perini Corporation
  • Research Triangle Institute
  • Skylink Air & Logistic Support
  • Washington Group International
  • The Carlisle Group

For more details of these companies, see “The Corporate Invasion of Iraq: Profile of U.S. Corporations Awarded Contracts in U.S./British-Occupied Iraq,” compiled by U.S. Labor Against the War. Click here to download a PDF of this document.

Corporations also collaborate with the military in another way, inducing young people to wage war through a program called "PaYS" (Partnership for Youth Success). The military promises their recruits a job opening with certain corporations after their military service - providing that they don't fall victim to "stop loss" military retention for years and years, and providing, of course, that they're not killed or maimed in action. For a list of these companies, see: www.armypays.com/corplogos.htm

The Center for Public Integrity has issued a report with a list of the campaign contributions of contractors of post-war contractors (1990 to 2002). They also list the following companies at the “ten worst war Profiteers of 2004”:

  • Aegis
  • BearingPoint
  • Bechtel
  • BKSH & Associates
  • CACI and Titan
  • Custer Battles
  • Halliburton
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Loral Satellite
  • Qualcomm

For more details on the campaign contributions and these companies, click here to download a Word document file.

*For the weapons produced by ATK, see www.circlevision.org/alliantaction/atk/scoop/scoopindex.html
For ongoing protests against ATK, see http://alliantACTION.org
Mass protests will also take place on Gandhi's Birthday, Oct. 2, Day 4 of the "Stop the Merchants of Death National Conference" in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN [www.warresisters.org/smod/]