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.
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.
