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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Globalcitizen12 on September 24, 2017, 08:30:42 AM
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American foreign policy is full abracadabra on reality..American foreign policy is about empire expansion under the pretence of promotion of free market economy and democracy..we know capitalism is an enemy of free market and democracy .. capitalism abhors freedom that why corporate culture thrives under dictatorship..americans spend 10 hours a day in poyangyan type of gulag that has been created by corporate world. If an American comes boasting to you about freedom and civil liberties ask then how free they are at work..in companies like amozon you take a shit when the supervisor approves
Kenya 2017 non elections were a clear example of zichorphernia that ails American foreign policy and capitalism..America was willing to allow electroral theft as long as betchel got 6 billion dollar contract
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Now talking of Betchel..... [pdf]http://corpwatch.org/downloads/Bechtel%20Report.pdf[/pdf]
1. Betchel vs Bolivia
In 1997 the World Bank informed Bolivia that it was making additional aid for water development conditioned upon the government privatizing the public water systems of two of its largest urban centers, El Alto/La Paz and the city of Cochabamba. In September 1999, in a secret process with just one bidder, Bolivia’s government turned over Cochabamba’s water to a company controlled by the California engineering giant, Bechtel.
Within a few weeks, Bechtel’s company raised water rates by an average of more than 50%, sparking a citywide rebellion that has come to be known as the Cochabamba Water Revolt. In April 2000, following a declaration of martial law by the President, the army killing of a seventeen-year-old boy (Victor Hugo Daza), and more than a hundred wounded, the citizens of Cochabamba refused to back down and Bechtel was forced to leave Bolivia.
Eighteen months later Bechtel and its co-investor, Abengoa of Spain, filed a $50 million legal demand against Bolivia before a closed-door trade court operated by the World Bank, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). For four years afterwards Bechtel and Abengoa found their companies and corporate leaders dogged by protest, damaging press, and public demands from five continents that they drop the case.
On January 19, 2006 Bechtel and Abengoa representatives traveled to Bolivia to sign an agreement in which they abandoned the ICSID case for a token payment of 2 bolivianos (30 cents). This was the first time that a major corporation has ever dropped a major international trade case such as this one as a direct result of global public pressure, and it set an important precedent for the politics of future trade cases like it.
https://democracyctr.org/archive/the-water-revolt/bechtel-vs-bolivia-details-of-the-case-and-the-campaign/
2. Bechtel embroiled in bribery claims as Saudi family feud goes to court
bitter family feud over the inheritance of a fortune once valued at $6bn has seen engineering giant Bechtel accused of being involved in bribery.
Bechtel is a respected global business which has worked on some of the UK’s biggest infrastructure projects, including Crossrail, High Speed 1 and the Channel Tunnel, and is also involved in improving the way the Ministry of Defence buys weapons.
But London’s Court of Appeal on Monday heard of a “corrupt scheme” the company was implicated in, with a witness statement naming the company in bribery allegations around the construction of the massive Riyadh metro system.
3. Bechtel Takes a Hit for War Profiteering
A comprehensive U.S. government audit of a Bechtel project in Iraq has exposed gross mismanagement by the company. As a result, the $50 million contract has been canceled.
As the auditors plan to expand their investigations to all of Bechtel's $2.85 billion in Iraq contracts, they are sure to discover a pattern of failure. Not only should Bechtel be dropped from all of its failing contracts, but the company should be required to refund all misspent U.S. taxpayer and Iraqi funds so that Iraqi contractors can get to work and real reconstruction can finally begin.
But time is running out.
On Sept. 30, 2006, all unobligated money for reconstruction in Iraq reverts back to the U.S. Treasury. This means that unless action is taken now to ensure that this money goes to Iraqis, U.S. corporations will keep their billions, while Iraqis are left with failed projects and little money to recover.
On July 31, the office of the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction (SIGIR) released an audit of Bechtel's Basra Children's Hospital Project. Congress established SIGIR in October 2004 to provide much needed oversight to U.S. government expenditures on Iraq reconstruction. Under pressure from the public, members of Congress and U.S. soldiers in Iraq, SIGIR expanded its work beyond broad programmatic issues and criminal activities to assessments of individual reconstruction projects. It took even more pressure and time for SIGIR to publicly release the names of contractors responsible for failing projects.
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PDF doc.... http://s3.amazonaws.com/corpwatch.org/downloads/Bechtel%20Report.pdf