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Blackwater and the Corporate Mercenaries Who've Changed the Rules of War
The UN asserts that mercenarism is against international humanitarian law, but this hardly seems to matter. By exploiting legal loopholes along with some creative lawyering, the modern mercenary now operates with impunity.
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Blackwater Founder Held Secret Seychelles Meeting to Establish Trump-Putin Back Channel
An explosive expose by the Washington Post reveals that the United Arab Emirates arranged the secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin.
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Secretive Airspace: Private Companies Are Now At the Heart of U.S. Drone Warfare
America's overstretched military has hired hundreds of private-sector contractors to analyze top-secret video feeds and help track suspected terrorist leaders – a secretive industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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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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Manning Verdict Risks Freedom of the Press If the People Do Not Act
For a whistleblower who exposed war crimes and unethical government behavior to face a lengthy prison term while the people exposed are not even investigated shows how confused the United States has become.
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We’re Being Watched
How Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists
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The Story Behind the "NATO 3" Domestic Terrorism Arrests
Accused of domestic terrorism during the NATO summit, Brian Church, Brent Betterly and Jared Chase were victims of police entrapment and the use of "Red Squad" tactics by the Chicago police.
