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?
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
![[Video] Is the Hypocritical War Against ACORN Unconstitutional?](/images/managed/blogteaser_maddowbw.jpg_thumbs_600x448_thumbs_60x60)
