"Tivo-ifies the web" Paul Kedrosky

Iraq for Sale

A Robert Greenwald film about the role of outsourcing in the Iraq War. It also puts a human face on the contractors themselves who are not necessarily soldiers of fortune, but ordinary people such as truck drivers.

Tivia: Computer Sciences Corporation is an outsourcing company used in Iraq, who: flew the defoliation missions that are the centerpiece of Plan Colombia; constituted the core of the police force in Bosnia; protected Afghan president Hamid Karzai; managed the border posts between the US and Mexico and ran Airforce One. They have a website that is indistinguishable from a boring Silicon Valley enterprise software firm.

Running time: 1 hour 16 mins.

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