An acquaintance of mine from my activist days recently came out with a new book.  Pratap Chatterjee, who I met while I was working with Rainforest Action Network, has written Halliburton’s Army, How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War, which is an expose of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism, and an investigation into the nexus of the military-industrial complex, governments and corporations.  I look forward to delving into it.

Pratap is a brilliant, award-winning investigative journalist (National Newspaper Association and Project Censored), and leading authority on corporate crime, fraud and corruption, whose work has been featured in The Nation, Huffington Post and Democracy Now!  He has written on the Iraq occupation, Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation, and how the California Gold Rush affected American Indians in California.  He serves as the Managing Editor of CorpWatch, whose mission is global justice and corporate transparency.

I congratulate Pratap on his latest achievement!