Stories written by Pratap Chatterjee
Pratap Chatterjee is an investigative journalist who has written extensively about U.S. defence contractors employed in the “war on terror”. He has written two books on the subject: ‘Iraq, Inc’ (2004) and ‘Halliburton's Army’ (2009). Pratap is managing editor of CorpWatch and formerly a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Centre for American Progress.

FINANCE: Privatisation – Sweeter Waters or Red Herring?

By Pratap Chatterjee
Sweet is the water that flows from Argentine taps, says a new report from the World Bank, because private companies have helped make the precious liquid both cheaper and more widely available than their state predecessors.

TURKEY: Orthodox Christians Go ‘Green’

By Pratap Chatterjee
Scientists and religious leaders this week set aside their traditional differences to explore the connection between the spiritual and ecological health of individuals, nations and the planet.

ENVIRONMENT-RELIGION: Greek Soap Opera on High Seas Amazes Greens

By Pratap Chatterjee
Take a large helping of Greek politics, a healthy dose of religion, assorted stories about dying dolphins and seals, mix them up on an island near the Mediterranean, and you have the plot for the voyage of the cruise ship Preveli.

TURKEY: Orthodox Christians Go ‘Green’

By Pratap Chatterjee
Scientists and religious leaders this week set aside their traditional differences to explore the connection between the spiritual and ecological health of individuals, nations and the planet.

ENVIRONMENT-INDONESIA: World’s biggest gold mine killing native people

By Pratap Chatterjee
"If you drink that water, you'll die," said a Freeport McMoRan security official in the Grasberg mountains, the site of the world's biggest gold mine, on the island of New Guinea in the south Pacific.

ENVIRONMENT: Medicine Hunters Scour Rainforests, Deserts

By Pratap Chatterjee
Blood of the Dragon, Smokebush and sundried Endod - these are some of the latest finds from the rainforests, deserts and river valleys - that local people and scientists say could hold the key to medicines for a variety of ills from snail fever to AIDS.

AGRICULTURE: Food Negotiators seek Funding for Traditional Farming

By Pratap Chatterjee
Farmers in Tegulet, Ethiopia, sowed new varieties of teff and sorghum last month, but they weren't high- yield seeds bred in a laboratory. They were varieties the farmers had lost when they stopped planting them decades ago.

INDIA: World Bank postpones coal loan in wake of political crisis

By Pratap Chatterjee
The World Bank has decided to delay a 425-million-dollar loan to expand India's coal mines until after the next national elections, according to IPS sources.

UNITED NATIONS: World Forum charged with helping to destroy world’s rivers

By Pratap Chatterjee
Senior United Nations officials flying to San Francisco this week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the accord that created the world body will probably not be amused when they are handed a two-page flyer entitled "Unsustainable Development Programme" with the logo of their largest agency.

ENVIRONMENT: U.N. helping to destroy world’s rivers, say critics

By Pratap Chatterjee
Senior United Nations officials flying to San Francisco Wednesday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the accord that created the world body will probably not be amused when they are handed a two-page flyer entitled "Unsustainable Development Programme" with the logo of their largest agency

INDIA-FINANCE: World Bank postpones coal loan in wake of political crisis

By Pratap Chatterjee
The World Bank has decided to delay a 425-million-dollar loan to expand India's coal mines until after the next national elections, according to IPS sources.

MEXICO: World Bank to bail out banks by cutting environment, other loans

By Pratap Chatterjee
A new billion-dollar World Bank package to help bail out private Mexican banks will be partly funded by cutting previously-approved Bank loans for the environment and other "not such high" priority projects, IPS has learned.

WORLD BANK: Play the ‘cello and toe the line, warns new governor

By Pratap Chatterjee
World Bank staff who criticise their employer to outsiders will be expected to quit, says Jim Wolfensohn, the new Bank president, in a letter to employees on his first day of work.

AFRICA: New World Bank chief begins whistle-stop tour of continent

By Pratap Chatterjee
On hand to greet Jim Wolfensohn, the new World Bank president, when his flight touched down in Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris this week was Daniel Kablan Duncan, the prime minister of the Ivory Coast.

BRAZIL: Forest people lodge complaint against World Bank

By Pratap Chatterjee
A package from forest communities in the Brazilian Amazon is expected to arrive at the World Bank's offices here at any moment.

AGRICULTURE: Ancient beans, new tomatoes vie to solve food crisis

By Pratap Chatterjee
This spring, in the semi-arid desert that lies south of Tucson, Arizona, the few remaining members of the Tohono O'odham indigenous people planted tepary beans that they will harvest later this year.

ENVIRONMENT: North Sea Conference to Focus on Floating Oil Platform

By Pratap Chatterjee
The future of an unwanted giant floating oil platform in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland is expected to feature high up the agenda of a meeting of European environment ministers in Denmark next Thursday.

ENVIRONMENT: Canada averts fish war but nets evidence against Spain

By Pratap Chatterjee
Canada has defused a potential trans- Atlantic battle by releasing the Estai, a Spanish trawler seized off the coast of New Foundland last week, after catching it breaking international agreements on fishing.

ENVIRONMENT: Nepal to finalise proposal for controversial dam

By Pratap Chatterjee
World Bank and Nepali government officials are scheduled to decide this week whether or not to proceed with the controversial Arun III dam as planned or to redesign the project altogether.

ENVIRONMENT: Ban on toxic waste exports to poor countries to be challenged

By Pratap Chatterjee
A meeting this week in Dakar, Senegal, to discuss a ban on the export of toxic waste to poor countries is a disguised attempt by some rich countries to destroy the ban, say Greenpeace activists.

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Bhopal chief retires to beach resort in Florida

By Pratap Chatterjee
Former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, wanted by Indian courts for his role in the deadly gas leak at one of Carbide's factories in Bhopal, India, ten years ago, is living in retirement in Florida, according to a report published here in an investigative journal.
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