PopulistAmerica.com

January 11, 2005

by Michael Boldin

Recently, the Center for Corporate Responsibility released a report, the Ten Worst War Profiteers of 2004. Although this report was insightful and possibly shocking (with Halliburton coming in at a meager #7), does it really give us the whole story? Tyranny, including foreign entanglements, needs money. Most, if not all, of that money is coming from US Taxpayers, but who is making the profits? Most of the top ten don't provide goods or services to the general public. Although we've heard it for years on numerous issues, a boycott is really in order. Money, at this point in the game, is our only and possibly best weapon. If the US government is going to unrepentingly tax its citizens, and then turn over those tax dollars to their favorite corporations through foreign rebuilding contracts, defense contracts, and the like, we must fight back. They're stealing our money; money that should be used for schools, healthcare, roads, or simply left in our pockets. Yes, it's the old call for a boycott.

The hard thing here, is that in reviewing the top ten war profiteers, what is there to actually boycott? Not too many of us are going to take our jet fighter business away from Lockheed Martin and buy our fancy new F-22 from "the other guy." We still need to be able to hit these corporations - and millions of Americans can do this. Nearly every one of the top ten aren't in business alone. They share (or possibly hide) their profits through Strategic Alliances, Partnerships, Affiliates, Subsidiaries and Parent Companies. When Lockheed, or Halliburton, or any of the others make money from our tax dollars, or the rape and pillage of the Iraqi and Afghani (and who else in the future?) people, a web of other major and minor corporations are profiting as well. For example, Company "X" is in the top ten. Company "X" in turn is owned by Company "B", who's not on the list, who in turn owns Company "H" and Company "T". "H" and "T" then partner with or manage Company "R", and on and on. These relationships are not minor. As we've done research, as we move down the food chain, these top 10 war profiteers expand into a web of thousands of companies. To keep this as logistically simple as possible, we've limited this list to included companies that are related to the top ten, to the 2nd degree of relationship. Even reducing the list to the closest of corporate relationships, we've come up with a total of 94 companies, plus the original ten. You might be surprised at who's profiting from global dominance from behind the scenes.

The task is simple. Boycott all these companies starting today. Get rid of your AT&T service, don't buy gas at Shell, and so on. Sure, it might be an inconvenience, but you're already giving money to these companies with your tax dollars, so why should you pay them twice? Don't buy that Sony tv, get another brand. When flying to London, choose to not use London Luton Airport, as they're managed by a top ten profiteer, and generate more profit for them. We're all slaves to the corporations, but we still do have somewhat of a choice as to whom we'll give all our hard-earned money to, so stop funding the companies that profit from imperialism. Tell your friends what you're doing, and sooner or later we'll make a difference. Maybe they'll even have to find different companies to profit from the war, and then we'll hit them in the pocketbook too.

PopulistAmerica.com 104 War Profiteers:



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ABT Engineers & Constructors



Accenture

Acton Burnell

AEGIS

AgustaWestland

Alcatel

Alenia

Alterra Partners

Applied Technology Solutions

APX

Arab African International Bank

ARE Group

AT&T

BAE Systems

Bantrel Co.

Beacon Group - owned by JP Morgan Chase

BearingPoint

Bechtel

Bechtel Bettis

BellSouth

BKSH & Associates

Burson-Marsteller

BWX Technologies

CACI & Titan

California Energy Commission

Callisma

Capgemini

C-Cubed Corporation

Chavez Int. Airport - Peru

Cisco Systems

CITIC Engineering

CMS Information Services

Commercial Space Systems

Cosapi

Curacao Airport - Netherlands

Custer Battles

Dell

Deloitte

Diehl

Digital Systems International Corp

EDS

Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Energy

Electricity Reliability Council of Texas

Enka Engineering

EPC Global

Ericsson

ESG

ESSI

Halliburton

Hellman & Friedman

HP

Hyperion

IABG

IBM

IDS Scheer

InterGen

Italtel

Izar

Jacobs Engineering

JSM Int. Airport - Costa Rica

KBR

LMC Properties

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed UK

London Luton Airport

Loral Satellite

Marshall Aerospace

Mellon Investor Services

MIC Capital - Mitsubishi Investment

Microsoft

Morgan Stanley

Motorola

MTL Systems

NetworkAppliance

Nexant, Inc

Nth Power

Ogilvy PR Worldwide

Opitz Consulting

Oracle

PECL

Peoplesoft

PGESCo

Premier Technology Group

Qualcomm

Realtech

Rolls-Royce/Allison

SAP

SBC

Shell

Siebel

Siemens

Sigdo Koppers

Sinotech Foundation

SONACA

Sony

Sprint

Steeb

Sun Microsystems

Teradata

Thales

ThruPoint

Turkish Aircraft

WPP Group LLC

Young & Rubicam Brands