Monday 17 May 2010 at 6pm
Note: please follow this link to the Channel 4 video shown at the beginning of the discussion
Pratap Chatterjee is one of the leading investigative journalists looking into corporate corruption in the US, in particular the private contractors who provide support to the US military.
Pratap discussed the methodology of identifying key players, finding military contracts, and uncovering corruption, while examining other related contracts for training the Afghan police and Kuwaiti-based companies that have been used to supply food to the US military in Iraq.
Pratap Chatterjee is an investigative journalist and Senior Editor at CorpWatch. He is the author of “Halliburton’s Army”, “Iraq Inc: A Profitable Occupation” and “The Earth Brokers”. Pratap also works with the US-based ProPublica which is an independent, non-profit production house for original journalism in the public interest and one of the leading working models of its kind in the world.
Further links to Pratap’s work
1. A case study of the Tarakhil power plant outside Kabul. This white elephant of a project demonstrates the failure of U.S reconstruction contractors as well as how the Karzai government has profited out of it