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/]