[Imc-chicago-audio] Update with links: Prog. Media launches coordination around Iraq for Sale

[Erin Polgreen]

Below is an updated press release with links

Privatization and Iraq: Progressive media outlets coordinate coverage  
around Iraq for Sale


For more information, contact:

Tracy Van Slyke, Publisher
In These Times
773-772-0100 ext. 243
tracy at inthesetimes.com

Today, AlterNet, The American Prospect, ColorLines, In These Times,  
Link TV and Ms. Magazine have published interviews, reporting and  
analysis in coordination with the release of Robert Greenwald’s new  
documentary, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers.

These media outlets delve into the untold stories spawning from this  
hard-hitting film, with the goal of covering many of the unknown  
issues and individuals impacted by privatization in Iraq.  Each media  
outlet released a story on their own Web site and linked to the  
stories of their media partners.  The stories will also be linked on  
the Iraq for Sale Web site (www.iraqforsale.org).

All media partners are members of The Media Consortium  
(www.themediaconsortium.org), a new network of leading progressive  
independent journalism organizations. Reporters and media  
representatives are available for interviews individually and as a  
group.   All links to stories are available below.  Highlights of  
stories include:

·      AlterNet (http://alternet.org/waroniraq/41314) staff writer,  
Joshua Holland reports in “Bush's Worst Pentagon Downfall:  
Outsourcing Torture,” that there couldn't be a more appropriate  
symbol of the Bush era than the Pentagon outsourcing torture in the  
war zones of the New American Empire to profit-hungry companies like  
CACI.

·    The American Prospect’s (www.prospect.org/theunaccountables)  
senior editor Tara McKelvey uncovers the legal limbo in which the  
25,000 independent contractors in Iraq operate in “The  
Unaccountables.” Some may have engaged in torture -- and, by evident  
design, they can’t be prosecuted for their crimes.

·    ColorLines (http://www.electricposts.com/article.php?ID=139)  
reports in “Doing the Dirty Work,”  that today, Asian migrant workers  
perform the menial labor on U.S. military bases in Iraq, where  
trafficking has been standard practice since the invasion began.

·    In These Times (http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/ 
2811/) details how it's been a bad season for military contractors  
and their Bush administration backers, and the release of the new  
film Iraq for Sale will only turn up the heat. Bill Scher of  
LiberalOasis.com reports in “Privatized Warfare: The Summer of  
Discontent.”

·    Link TV (www.linktv.org) produced a report about Iraq for Sale  
for its Media Watch series, including an interview with producer  
Robert Greenwald. This will be released on Friday, September 8.

·    Ms. Magazine (www.Msmagazine.com) examines how U.S. war policies  
in Iraq sell out women in favor of big oil.  Whether supporting  
gender apartheid abroad, or sacrificing feeding programs for U.S.  
women and children at home so that ExxonMobil can get a tax break— 
U.S. priorities are consistent: Oil wins over women's rights hands  
down. Martha Burk reports in “Crude Awakening: U.S. Policies in  
Afghanistan and Iraq Sell Out Women in Favor of Oil.”

·      MotherJones (www.motherjones.com/iraq_for_sale) has also  
compiled past investigative reports on contracting and corruption in  
post-war Iraq.

Iraq for Sale, is an inside look of what happens to everyday  
Americans when corporations go to war and gives an inside look at the  
lives of the people who have been changed forever as a result of  
profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers  
the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq  
and the decision makers who allow them to do so.

Tracy Van Slyke, Publisher
In These Times
773-772-0100 ext. 243
tracy at inthesetimes.com

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