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.
Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. 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.
Anthony Arnove, Huffington Post. May 21, 2008. John Cusack's bold new film War, Inc. is an antidote to Pentagon spin and the corporate punditry who continue to get the war in Iraq so wrong.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. January 29, 2008. Protesters who re-enacted one of Blackwater's worst civilian massacres in Iraq got jail time, while the real killers remain free.
Ali Gharib, IPS News. October 1, 2007. Weeks after a wild shooting spree by Blackwater operatives led Iraqi officials to ban the firm from the country, DoD mocks human rights.
Jeremy Scahill, Indypendent. August 13, 2007. Since launching the "global war on terror," the administration has funneled billions of public dollars to "private contractors" and more than doubled the size of the occupation with these hired guns.
Barry Lando, AlterNet: PEEK. April 24, 2007. Barry Lando: If you want any more evidence of the threat that an unchecked George W. Bush represents to the rest of the world, take a look at Somalia.
Lorelei Kelly, AlterNet. February 20, 2007. The bottom line is that the privatization of U.S. National Security is a trend that has been ongoing for years. And the billions of dollars disappeared by contractors in Iraq make disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff look like Little Bo Peep.
