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Bill Maher: When Did Making a Profit Become the Only Reason to Do Anything?

Bill Maher, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. July 27, 2009.
It used to be that there were some services and institutions so vital to our nation that they were exempt from market pressures. Not anymore.

Bill Moyers: The Rise of Private Armies -- Mercenaries, Murder and Corruption in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. June 9, 2009.
Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the "disintegration of the nation state apparatus."

Foreign Mercenaries Losing Their Immunity in Iraq

Willam Fisher, IPS News. December 18, 2008.
Under the agreement approved by the Iraqi government last week, U.S. contractors will be subject to Iraqi law for the first time.

Blackwater Busted? Six Guards May Be Charged in Iraq Massacre

Jeremy Scahill, TheNation.com. November 15, 2008.
Critics still fear reckless behavior by the 140,000 private corporate contractors in Iraq will continue.

Tens of Thousands of Iraqis Protest U.S. Plan to Stay Until 2011

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. October 22, 2008.
An interview with Iraq correspondent Patrick Cockburn and Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar on the Status of Forces Agreement.

One Fifth of Iraq Funding Goes to Private Contractors

Willam Fisher, IPS News. September 6, 2008.
If spending continues at the current rate, the U.S. will have spent 100 billion dollars on military contractors in Iraq by the end of the year.

Are Contractors in War Zones Above the Law?

Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent. August 7, 2008.
Numerous private civilian contractors have died in Iraq under KBR's watch, yet the firm is immune from U.S. law.

U.S. Mercenary Company Implicated in Mexican Torture Videos

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.

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

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.

Blackwater's Private CIA

Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. June 9, 2008.
The notorious mercenary company now offers spy "services" to Fortune 500 companies, for the right price.

Why War, Inc. Is Must-See Political Filmmaking

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.

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