On AlterNet: mercenaries
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "mercenaries"
Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. January 22, 2010.
No sooner did Defense Secretary Gates admit during a visit to Islamabad that Blackwater is in the country, than the Pentagon rushed to "clarify" his remarks.
Benjamin Dangl, Toward Freedom. January 19, 2010.
In the midst of a colossal human disaster, Washington is promoting unpopular economic policies and extending military and economic control over the Haitian people.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: World. January 19, 2010.
We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 18, 2010.
The Orwellian-named International Peace Operations Association didn't waste much time in offering the "services" of its member companies to swoop down on Haiti.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: World. January 14, 2010.
On it's face, it's kind of ridiculous.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. December 31, 2009.
Judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed all charges against the five Blackwater operatives accused of gunning down 14 innocent Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: World. September 28, 2009.
How could any sane person put even the wildest allegations against ACORN up against the systematic misconduct and criminality of massive corporations?
Laura Flanders, GRITtv AlterNet: Video. August 10, 2009.
Should we be calling this "Blackwatergate"?
Suzanne Ito, Blog of Rights AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 20, 2009.
The Working Group on the use of mercenaries will focus on questions of transparency, accountability, and human rights.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. April 24, 2009.
Some estimate that private security inside the US actually outnumber police 5-to-1.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 15, 2009.
The U.S. mercenary trade association asks the UN to join its rebranding campaign.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. April 2, 2009.
Federal records obtained by AlterNet reveal a multi-million dollar contract for a private U.S. paramilitary force operating out of Jerusalem.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. March 17, 2009.
Obama may keep the company on the government payroll months after its Iraq contract expires. Not bad for a firm supposedly going down in flames.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. February 13, 2009.
Perhaps Erik Prince and his men have been watching Monty Python.
Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet. January 29, 2009.
In a wide-ranging interview, veteran Paul Sullivan discusses Bush, Obama and the legacies of the Gulf War.
Gustavo Capdevila, IPS News. December 26, 2008.
Mercenaries hired by private military and security companies are playing an increasingly broad range of roles in Latin America.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. December 3, 2008.
The private security firm Blackwater is planning to offer a new service to make money: protection from the pirates off the coast of East Africa.
Middle East OnlineNovember 21, 2008.
Under the Status of Forces Agreement awaiting passage, private military contractors would be subject to Iraqi criminal and civil law.
Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 27, 2008.
Whatever the U.S.-Iraqi "agreement" ends up looking like, it is unlikely to have much of an effect on the occupation.
AlterNetOctober 17, 2008.
See how the candidates compare on the occupation of Iraq, the use of mercenaries in war and other issues in the so-called War on Terror.
Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now! AlterNet: Video. August 29, 2008.
Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reports from the DNC.
Anthony Arnove, Huffington Post. July 30, 2008.
President Bush, Nuri al-Maliki, Barack Obama and John McCain seem to have reached a common consensus on Iraq.
Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. July 28, 2008.
Johnson considers just how incompetent and unscrupulous a thoroughly privatized intelligence 'community' has turned out to be.
Jeremy Scahill, Comment Is Free. July 23, 2008.
Despite reports that the company is leaving the mercenary business, Blackwater's future is secure.
Laura Carlsen, Huffington Post. July 14, 2008.
Videos depicting torture-training sessions with Mexican police raise alarm over human rights under Calderon's US-assisted war on crime.
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