The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money
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The author of the bestseller The Iron Triangle untangles a web of political back scratching in one of the world’s most powerful companies Halliburton-
ran a Texas oil-field company Dick Cheney before he became vice president, has courted controversy for the better part of the twentieth century, but only recently has received intense media scrutiny. In Agenda Halliburton, shape Halliburton and its subsidiary companies in the creation of a fascinating story of influence and behind the scenes political maneuvering that has only in momentum over the last decade, culminating in one fire storm of problems as soon as Cheney increased office.
This fascinating book shows readers where Halliburton has done business with and on top of the list so far are Iran, Iraq and Libya. It also shows how this juggernaut of a corporation has engaged in a cycle of profits that begins by selling products and services to potential terrorist states, contracting with the federal government in times of war against the States, then to help rebuild valuable to repair orders these states. It will also show how a Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, has become an indispensable part of the U.S. military, so that the two are indistinguishable at times.
Halliburton is one of the first American companies that recognize the importance of aligning itself with powerful politicians, strongly contribute to campaigns, then cash in on lucrative government contracts. Engaging and informative, the Halliburton Agenda carefully examined the arc of the success of the company, his use of political affiliation, and the volume of international business. Amazon. com Review
Despite their common preference for keeping a low profile, became Vice-President Dick Cheney and Halliburton, his former employer, known in the aftermath of the war in Iraq thanks to a series of lucrative state contracts to Halliburton, for which they never had to offer. Business journalist Dan Briody examines the history of the company shows how light and not its current relationship with influential politicians anomalous, but rather to make part of a venerable tradition nor ethically suspicious transactions. Briody leads Erle Halliburton, who was born in poverty but found great financial success with innovative technologies, oil well. And to avoid while Halliburton come too close to elected officials or government orders to follow, made the Brown Brothers of Texas-based Brown & Root, the maintenance of the ‘pet politicians, “a top priority, as they grew their construction to one of the most powerful nation in the . The Halliburton Agenda Details of mutually beneficial relations with the Browns a distinguished Lyndon Johnson with money and influence flowed between the two. Halliburton acquired Brown & Root in 1962 and with him plentiful Briody makes questionable business practices that continue to this day. Dick Cheney threatened ominously on the cover, but he does not seem much in the book relatively late in the history of Halliburton. Still, because it will be Cheney in the early 1990s’ appointment as CEO of jobs (the experience of the private sector not) and exit Vice President, fell in 2000 with an upturn in Halliburton’s revenue and controversy, it is to consider any amount of material. While many have questioned what companies have in the George W. Bush prevails, Briody sees the expanded view of corporate culture and history Halliburton enlightening perspective. – John Moe
The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money
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July 31st, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Regardless of your political persuasion, I recommend the Halliburton Agenda. Author Dan Briody followed by Erle Halliburton career of the oil fields as a driver in the period around 1900 in the boardroom where in the 1920s, Halliburton was already a millionaire. During the same time, brothers began Herman and George, founder of Brown & Root, the forerunner of today’s Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) is that now a subsidiary of Halliburton, as road construction and garbage tractors in Texas and graduated from the dam clients and was a major contractor of the government, they learned how the political system work.
Relations between Brown Brothers and politicians, especially Lyndon Johnson, are revealed in some detail. It is a fascinating prospect. The ups and downs of KBR are through the decades, when the construction firm lands contract followed by contract.
author makes early Briody a strong effort to keep his views – if not his perspective – from the pages. Unfortunately, later in the book, he does not stick to the facts, but sometimes says. An example of this is editorializing on page 211 in discussing Dick Cheney Briody found states “or so, he is not the man I want to turn the President’s ear on a daily basis.” I would have preferred to come to this conclusion on my own.
Overall, the book has a good balance with plenty of room Briody praise others, while Halliburton’s what matters under the LOGCAP (Logistics Civil Augmentation Program) design and tender.
timelines, charts, and images may be. Unfortunately, this book has none. A timeline of the successes and failures with a listing of the contracts would be a nice addition to the book. It would also photos of key players and building projects add flavor.
Rating: 5.4
July 31st, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Political cronyism is an integral part of Western democracy, as was the hay days of the Roman Empire. It is hard to believe very naive, or “jobs for the boys”; political portfolio for the “comrades”, and lucrative contracts to family members are an unfortunate aspect of the system that has not changed, and will not change in the foreseeable future. In addition, another sad reality that war is good business. One need only look back to the Civil War, the “damned Yankee Carpet Baggers”, filtering from the north end of the war and the exploitation of the defeated southern states, in the name of “compensation”. Many made a fortune from the defeated South, as well as a few companies are currently the millions from the spoils of the Iraq war. What Briody calls in this book, the “iron triangle”, the agreement of the government, military and corporations, goals he describes the Halliburton Corporation and its subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, a long history of political back scratching, war profiteers, the illegal campaign contributions, and a long and lucrative relationship with key political figures such as Lyndon B. Johnson, currently Vice President Cheney, to make a few individuals very rich, wrongly, is from the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people.
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The main part of the book on the history of the company Halliburton and Brown & Root is dedicated to a long and entrenched business practice of political back scratching through illegal campaign contributions, in this case, the long and successful relationship between Lyndon B. Johnson and Brown Brothers through the 40′s 50′s, 60′s, turning Brown & Root in one of the most successful construction companies in American history. The proof of this collusion between the company and Johnson is without question. But the current relationship between Halliburton and Vice President Cheney, former CEO for this lucrative Corporation, in my opinion, is even more ethically devastating, as their relationship continues to this day, although the company the sole contractual rights with the government, the military backing, ” reconstruction “of the war-torn country of Iraq.
Why did Halliburton was this lucrative contracts while other companies are forced out of the bidding process given? One can say that they have a proven track record of getting the work have done, but there are also indications of overload (gas supplies to Iraq), currently investigated. It is also well aware that Halliburton has business with known terrorist countries such as Libya did, and manage to wriggle out from the legal spotlight. You would not see the man in the relationship between the Bush Administration and these companies, no matter how many times Cheney denies the relationship existed in the present. As a former CEO, he continues to concentrate on their payroll and is in possession of numerous stock options. These facts should increase in any case, a few red flags.
This book highlights the political and corporate machinations that behind the scenes, and that “jobs for the boys” is a regrettable reality of our system, and the war, unfortunately, a profitable business option.
is recommended.
Rating: 5.4
July 31st, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Who could believe that the secret relationship between big business, politics and the armed forces could present to this degree outside of a Tom Clancy novel, but Briody revealed by careful research, yes it does. This book was a real eye opener!
Rating: 5.5
July 31st, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Briody has done an excellent job of providing evidence of a full accounting of Halliburton and it’s subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, to the dark side of capitalism and democracy – where there is no competition and all the benefits of democracy benefit to uncover a company. That the public, politicians and even the Pentagon is not yet the dangers here is amazing to see. I hope this book helps open more eyes.
Rating: 5.5
July 31st, 2010 at 10:06 pm
I really enjoyed his book on Carlyle and it is the reason why I bought this book. But it was another 300 pages have been. It has a pretty good job of describing the origin of Halliburton and Brown and Root, and described the relationship of both Brown and Root, and later the combined company had with Lyndon Johnson. But other political circumstances of the time were not specified, and mentioned only briefly. Basically there was nothing about the company’s history after the end of the 1950 short and I felt too short, if I have to this part of the book. (4.3 of the way into it) The change of name to Kellogg, Brown and Root was not mentioned, it could have been no contracts, such as Guantanamo or the base on Diego Garcia, which to me sounds like it has justification for some ink. Also Kellog, Brown and Root were declared bankrupt and left me wondering what is the history to gloss over. The asbestos issue was only briefly mentioned, and Cheney tried to reduce these losses was a change in the law not mentioned at all. Information about the company contracts in Iraq is almost nonexistent, and the reputation of the company has contracts with the countries in Cheney’s time under U.S. sanctions (including Iran) do not even get through the diversion of the contracts for the foreign branches is a fraction of a page.
Basically, if you search for information about these companies after 1962 You’re Better Off the Internet.
Rating: 5.2