War Profiteering

In every war there are those corporations that make an extremely large profit specifically from the war. The scariest offenders are those that have the power to get a government to start a war on their behalf.

2010-07-08 8:16

DEMOCRACY UNDER THREAT FROM NEW CORPORATE POWERS, EXPERTS WARN IN

Marjorie Cohn, law professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, noted that the principal beneficiaries of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars have been corporate “war profiteers” such as Halliburton and Blackwater. ….Chevron gouged $24 billions in excessive profits in 2008, as per www.tyrannyofoil.com. Schwarzenegger should put an excessive profits tax on these profits, instead of protecting the oil corporations from fair taxation, then, there would be sufficient public …

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