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Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of Control

By Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. Posted June 19, 2008.


Think Blackwater's days are numbered? Think again. Jeremy Scahill explains why its slaughter of Iraqis has not stopped the notorious mercenary firm.
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See more stories tagged with: iraq, iraq war, independent media, barack obama, iraq occupation, blackwater, mercenaries, corporate media, private contractors, exxonmobil, baghdad, privatization, chevron, erik prince, jeremy scahill, falluja, nisour square, nigeria, dyncorp, the tyranny of oil, oil change international, the bush agenda, gi resistance

Antonia Juhasz is a Tarbell Fellow, Oil Change International, and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (HarperCollins Publishers, 2006), now available in paperback, updated with a new afterword. Juhasz is also the author of the forthcoming book The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do to Stop It

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