Making a Killing

A nearly two-year investigation by the Center for Public Integrity’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has found that a handful of individuals and companies with connections to governments, multinational corporations and, sometimes, criminal syndicates in the United States, Europe, Africa and the Middle East have profited from war commerce – a growth industry whose bottom line never takes into account the lives it destroys. The journalists drew on classified intelligence files, government reports, court records and public documents and identified the individuals and companies involved in the privatization of various conflicts, and explained how they often influence the turn of world events.