Grand Theft Pentagon
by St Clair, JeffreyFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-01-15
Publisher(s): Common Courage Pr
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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.
Table of Contents
| Opening Statement: Versailles on the Potomac | p. 7 |
| Capitalism's Last Utopia | |
| The Duke and the Enterprise | p. 14 |
| Bush was Offered Bin Laden, But Wanted a War | p. 22 |
| How to Sell a War | p. 27 |
| No Bid, No Sweat | p. 37 |
| Contract Casino | p. 41 |
| Torture Air, Incorporated | p. 46 |
| The Enablers | |
| High Plains Grifter | p. 53 |
| How Bush Won (and Lost) His Wings | p. 85 |
| They Call Him Star Child: Rumsfeld and Star Wars | p. 96 |
| Meet Rumsfeld's Enforcer: Stephen Cambone | p. 102 |
| The Senator Most Likely to Start a Nuclear War: John McCain | p. 108 |
| King of the Hill: Ted Stevens' Empire | p. 116 |
| The Profiteers | |
| Sticky Fingers: the Making of Halliburton | p. 125 |
| Lockheed and Loaded: the Company that Runs the Empire | p. 149 |
| Straight to Bechtel: "More Powerful Than the US Army" | p. 158 |
| The Saga of Magnequench | p. 171 |
| When War is Swell: the Crusades of the Carlyle Group | p. 175 |
| Boeing and Nothingness | p. 179 |
| How the Rand Corp. Concocted the Colombian War | p. 199 |
| Larcenies: Grand and Grander | |
| The F-22: Tiffany's on Wings | p. 209 |
| Haywire: the New Navy Fighter Bombs Test | p. 216 |
| The Predator: Flying Blind | p. 219 |
| Use 'Em or Lose 'Em: Tiny Nukes are Better Nukes | p. 221 |
| Patriot Gore: the Fatal Flaws in the Patriot Missile | p. 225 |
| Attack of the Hog Killers: Why the Generals Hate the A-10 | p. 229 |
| My Corporation Tis of Thee: the General, GM and the Stryker | p. 233 |
| Hey Brother Can You Spare a Million?: How Neil Bush Succeeded in Business Without Really Trying | p. 236 |
| It's a Family Affair: Uncle Buck Makes a Killing | p. 244 |
| Bunker Busters and City Levelers | p. 248 |
| Pie in the Sky | |
| How to Restart the Arms Race in the Name of Saving the World | p. 254 |
| Of Sibbers and Penetration Aids | p. 258 |
| Star Wars Comes to Alaska | p. 261 |
| Treaty's End | p. 267 |
| Star Wars Goes Online...Crashes | p. 270 |
| Closing Statement: Looting by Contract | p. 274 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 281 |
| Bibliography | p. 284 |
| Resources | p. 309 |
| Index | p. 311 |
| About The Author | p. 330 |
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