This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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4 Blackwater Contractors Found Guilty In Iraq Massacre – A Verdict Long Overdue
Not simply individual guards should answer for this tragedy – but the leaders of private security companies and the governments that employ them must also be held to account.
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Evictions, Violence and "Criminalization of Poverty" Shakes Brazil Ahead of World Cup
Some say the Pacifying Police Units now installed in favelas are part of a corporate takeover of Rio de Janeiro – where the purpose is not to meet social demands but to make the city friendly for big business.
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Why Is Blackwater Helping To Train Brazil’s World Cup Security?
More than 170,000 security personnel will be on hand at the summer soccer tournament, some of them trained by a private U.S. security firm with a dark history.
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Chicago Dispatch: Vets Toss Medals of Honor, Call NATO Summit a Disgrace
“I'm doing this here, now, because our enemy is not overseas, our enemy is in the corporate boardrooms, right over there in those NATO conference rooms, right here at home,” said a veteran.