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The All-Time 10 Worst Military Contracting Boondoggles, Adam Weinstein in Mother Jones, Sep 2011

Biden says the 'buck stops with me' while pinning blame on Trump and many Afghans, Aaron Blake in Washington Post, Aug 2021

Afghanistan's military collapse: Illicit deals and mass desertions, Susannah George in Washington Post, Aug 2021

"Nobody Is Above the Law"Except the Biggest Corporate and Goverment Criminals, Ralph Nader on Common Dreams, Aug 2021

Halliburton's Iraq, Afghanistan Contracts at $600 Million and Growing, AP on FOX News, May 2003, updated Jan 2015

Windfalls of war- Which American companies won the biggest contracts in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan? ICIJ investigation, Sep 2012

Halliburton contracts balloon- Despite being under an investigative cloud, company gets $4.3 billion in 2003., Verloy et al in International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Mar 2012

Who Won The War In Afghanistan? The Taliban And Defense Contractors, Jaisal Noor on TheRealNews.com, Aug 2021

When Will We Stop Letting Our Presidents Lie America Into Wars? Thom Hartmann in Common Dreams, Aug 2021

It's Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors, Public Citizen, July 2020

RNC quietly deletes webpage touting Trump's call for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, Zachary Petrizzo in Salon, Aug 2021

Vietnam and Afghanistan: Different wars, similar endings? Jon Greenberg and Louis Jacobson on Politifact, Aug 2021

$10,000 Invested In Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000. Was the Afghanistan War a failure? Not for the top five defense contractors and their shareholders. Jon Schwarz in The Intercept, Aug 2021

How much did the US spend in Afghanistan? William Gittins on AS, Aug 2021

Military contractors and the profits of war, Nancy Marshall-Genzer on Marketplace, Aug 2021

Billions spent on Afghan army ultimately benefited Taliban, Robert Burns on AP, Aug 2021

Here Are the 5 Companies Making a Killing Off Wars Around the World, Vince Calio and Alexander Hess in Time, Mar 2014

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