Friday, January 12th, 2007 - 7:30PM The Home of Lawrence Bender
Bel Air, California
U.S. corporate profiteering in the Iraq war has reached a magnificent scale with Halliburton, Bechtel, and others reaping billions of dollars in profits off of the American invasion. Pratap Chatterjee, an award-winning journalist and Executive Director of CorpWatch, is an expert on the situation, having reported on the political influence of Enron and Halliburton in the mid-nineties he has led the field by more than half a decade. His early coverage of Bechtel was named Best Business Story by the National Newspaper Association, and he is the recipient of four Project Censored awards. His articles have appeared in the Financial Times, The New Republic, The Guardian (UK), and The Independent (UK). Recently, he wrote a book on the subject: Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation, in which he delivers an on-the-ground account of the occupation business, exposing private contractors as the only winners in this war. Join us as he walks us through a presentation with facts and figures of your worst nightmares.
Cocktails & Light Hors d'oeuvres will be served.