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DESCRIPTION:Director Robert Greenwald's previous film, "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low 
 Price", showed the effects of 'Godzilla capitalism' on ordinary people 
 across the U.S. and around the world.\n\nThis time, "IRAQ FOR SALE: The War 
 Profiteers" tells the story of what happens to ordinary Americans — and 
 Iraqis — when corporations go to war. The film takes viewers inside the 
 lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows, and children who have been 
 changed forever as a result of corporate profiteering in post-invasion 
 Iraq. \n\nThe film uncovers the connections between a small group of 
 private U.S. companies, and the decisionmakers who have enabled them to 
 make billions of dollars in Iraq through no-bid contracts to perform jobs 
 that the military used to do itself — and that Iraqis, who are desperate 
 for income to feed their families, could do better, faster, and cheaper. 
 \n\nThough the privatization of the Pentagon is hardly a new phenomenon, 
 the sheer extent and brazenness of the profiteering in Iraq — and the 
 total lack of oversight on these well-connected American corporations — 
 have resulted in the deaths of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians; alienated 
 most of the Iraqi population; and turned Iraq into a recruitment and 
 training center for Muslim militants, and a full-blown sectarian civil war 
 that threatens the stability of the whole region. \n\nAmong the fraud and 
 abuse documented in the film:\n-- Halliburton executives living in 
 five-star hotels, while their company fails to deliver drinkable water to 
 U.S. troops; burning perfectly good cars and trucks so they can buy new 
 ones, and claiming to have “lost” $9 billion in cash.\n-- Blackwater, a 
 private mercenary army masquerading as a “security company” and 
 operates with near-total impunity in Iraq, cut corners in order to make 
 even more money, and ended up causing the deaths of four of its own 
 employees in Faluja.\n-- CACI and Titan, two corporations virtually unknown 
 in the United States, provided untrained guards and nearly useless 
 translators who ultimately brought about the humiliation, torture, and 
 international disgrace known as the Abu Ghraib scandal. \n\nThe film will 
 be followed by a panel discussion, and preceded by a demonstration at the 
 headquarters of war profiteer Bechtel Corporation at 50 Beale Street in San 
 Francisco (Embarcadero BART) from 4:00-6:00 p.m. The protest will be led by 
 Global Exchange/CodePINK and other members of the Declaration of Peace 
 coalition. \n\nTickets are $10, and are available online at 
 www.countercorp.org or at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. There will also be 
 refreshments available for purchase at the theater (cash only). Proceeds 
 benefit the 2006 CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival in November.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/07/18306976.php
SUMMARY:"Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" benefit film screening
LOCATION:Brava Theater, 2789 24th Street, San Francisco (24th St./Mission BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/07/18306976.php
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