War on Terror profiteering concentrated in a few politically connected corporations

Evidence

Two of the most notorious examples of corporate profiteering from the wars of the early 2000s were the Halliburton oil field services corporation, whose former chairman was George W. Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney, and which was awarded an exclusive $7 billion contract for work in Iraq at the time of the U.S. invasion, and the Blackwater private military and security consultancy company, a service provider to the CIA, whose employees were convicted in 2007 of the murder of fourteen Iraqis in Baghdad. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 860

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete historical grounding for how US corporate power operated in the War on Terror — connects to the reader’s question about state power shaping the fear that Hamid and Naqvi narrate from the receiving end. — connects to: The war on terror brand relied on activists policing academic dissent; The terror industrial complex now includes social media and private contractors; The war on terror privatized military force for corporate profit. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 382 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The war on terror brand relied on activists policing academic dissent; The terror industrial complex now includes social media and private contractors; The war on terror privatized military force for corporate profit. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 382 (+5 more)