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BACKGROUND ARTICLES

• Contract Sport (2/16/2004, Jane Mayer, New Yorker)
• Outsourcing War (3/1/2005, P. W. Singer, Foreign Affairs)
• The Other U.S. Military (5/31/2004, BusinessWeek)
• The private contractor-GOP gravy train (5/11/2004, Robert Schlesinger, Salon.com)
• Outsourcing Blame (5/21/2004, William D. Hartung, TomPaine.com)
• Alternet's war profiteering archive
• WarSlavery.org resources on human trafficking

REPORTS

• War Profiteers: Profits Over Patriotism in Iraq (9/2006, Campaign for America's Future)
  • How the U.S. Senate voted on war profiteering
  • How the U.S. House of Representatives voted on war profiteering
• Windfalls of War: U.S. Contractors in Afghanistan & Iraq (Center for Public Integrity)
  • All Iraq/Afghanistan contractors
  • Outsourcing the Pentagon: Who's winning the big contracts
• Executive Excess 2006 (8/2006, Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy)
• A Fistful of Contractors: The Case for a Pragmatic Assessment of Private Military Companies in Iraq (9/2004, David Isenberg, BASIC)
• Outsourcing is Facilitating Human Rights Violations (2006 Annual Report, Amnesty International USA)

HEARINGS

• Accountability for Contracting Abuses in Iraq (9/18/2006, Senate Democratic Policy Committee)
• Whether Halliburton Has Failed to Provide Clean Water to United States Troops in Iraq: 4/7/2006 and 1/23/2006, Senate DPC
• Waste, Fraud and Abuse in U.S. Government Contracting in Iraq: 6/27/2005 and 2/14/2005, Senate DPC
• Iraq Contracting Practices (2/13/2004, Senate DPC)
• Contracting Abuses in Iraq (11/3/2003, Senate DPC)

BOOKS

• Iraq, Inc: A Profitable Occupation (11/2004, Pratap Chatterjee)
• Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (4/2004, P.W. Singer, Brookings Institution)
• The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security (7/2005, Deborah A. Avant, Author Q&A)
• Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq (8/2006, T. Christian Miller)
• Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (8/2006, Robert Young Pelton)
• A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq (5/2006, Gerry Schumacher)
• Contract Warriors (4/2005, Fred Rosen)
• The Best War Ever, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq (9/2006, Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber) 

www.antiwar.com  The founders of Antiwar.com were active in the Libertarian Party during the 1970s; in 1983, we founded the Libertarian Republican Organizing Committee, to work as a libertarian caucus within the GOP. Today, we are seeking to challenge the traditional politics of "Left" and "Right." At present, none of the existing parties or activist groups offers an effective vehicle for principled libertarian politics. Yet, even in the absence of a party of liberty, we cannot abstain from the struggle. We strive to lead the non-interventionist cause and the peace movements that many respected institutions have forgotten.

www.unitedforpeace.org  United for Peace and Justice is a coalition of more than 1400 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to protest the immoral and disastrous Iraq War and oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.

www.nationalpriorities.org  National Priorities Project (NPP) is a 501(c)(3) research organization that analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent. Located in Northampton, MA, since 1983, NPP focuses on the impact of federal spending and other policies at the national, state, congressional district and local levels.

www.ivaw.org  Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq  war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent.

www.vaiw.org  Veterans Against Iraq War is a coalition of American veterans who support our troops but oppose war with Iraq or any other nation that does not pose a clear and present danger to our people and nation.

Until and unless the current U.S. Administration provides evidence which clearly demonstrates that Iraq or any other nation poses a clear, direct and immediate danger to our country, we oppose all of this Administration's pre-emptive and unilateral military activities in Iraq. Furthermore, we cannot support any war that is initiated without a formal Declaration of War by Congress, as our Constitution requires.

www.iraqbodycount.net  Iraq Body Count (IBC) records the violent civilian deaths that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention in Iraq. Its public database includes deaths caused by US-led coalition forces and paramilitary or criminal attacks by others.

www.gsfp.org  Gold  Star  Families  For  Peace -  We as families of soldiers who have died as a result of war are organizing to be a positive force in our world to bring our countrys sons and daughters home from Iraq, to minimize the human cost of this war, and to prevent other families from the pain we are feeling as the result of our losses.

www.mfso.org   Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people opposed to the war in Iraq who have relatives or loved ones currently in the military or who have served in the military since the buildup to the Iraq war in fall of 2002. Our membership currently includes over 3,700 military families.

www.veteransforpeace.org  Veterans For Peace is a national organization founded in 1985. The organization includes men and women veterans of all eras and duty stations including from the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), World War II, the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf and current Iraq wars as well as other conflicts. Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary.

www.vva.org  Founded in 1978, Vietnam Veterans of America is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families. VVA is organized as a not-for-profit corporation and is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Service Code.

www.vvaw.org  Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. (VVAW) is a national veterans' organization that was founded in New York City in 1967. We believe that service to our country and communities did not end when we were discharged. We remain committed to the struggle for peace and for social and economic justice for all people. We will continue to oppose senseless military adventures and to teach the real lessons of the Vietnam War. We will do all we can to prevent another generation from being put through a similar tragedy and we will continue to demand dignity and respect for veterans of all eras. This is real patriotism and we remain true to our mission.

www.bringthemhomenow.org  The Bring Them Home Now! campaign—was begun by military veterans and the families of active duty troops who opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, as a "safe-space" to voice that opposition.  

Bring Them Home Now! was created to give voice to veterans, active duty troops and the loved ones of those in harm's way. And we tried to explain, patiently, to the military community, the anti-war movement, and the American people, that supporting the troops did not mean keeping them in Iraq year after year, or keeping some of them there indefinitely—that there is one way and only only one way to really support the troops—Bring Them Home Now!

www.girights.org   The GI Rights Hotline is answered by a coalition of nonprofit, non-governmental organizations who provide information to members of the military about discharges, grievance and complaint procedures, and other civil rights. 1-800-394-9544 From elsewhere outside the U.S., call 215-563-8778.
Email: girights@objector.org 

www.operationhomefront.net  Operation Homefront provides emergency assistance and morale to our troops, to the families they leave behind, and to wounded warriors when they return home. A nonprofit 501(c)3 founded after September 11, Operation Homefront leads more than 4,000 volunteers in 31 chapters nationwide. Since its inception, Operation Homefront has provided critical assistance to more than 45,000 military families in need.

www.antiwar.com/blog  This site is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and is read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, "greens," and independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism.