By Deborah Hastings The Associated Press Saturday 11 August 2007 There are now nearly as many private contractors in Iraq as there are U.S. soldiers ...
By Jeremy Scahill If you think the U.S. has only 160,000 troops in Iraq, think again. With almost no congressional oversight and even less public awareness, the B...
By MatthewLee, AP Posted: 2007 09 22 14:04:08 Filed Under: Iraq News WASHINGTON (Sept. 22) Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the priva...
JeremyScahill on Blackwater http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10192007/transcript1.html October 19, 2007 Bill Moyers talks journalist Jeremy Scahill, Part 1 BILL...
by MichaelRoston November 1, 2007 01:22 PM The congressional vice grip is tightening on Blackwater and other contracted defense firms. Next Wednesday, Rep. Jan Sc...
Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen Naomi Klein Posted November 1, 2007 (November 19, 2007 issue) I used to worry that the United States was...
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by Tom Griffin America's use of corporate mercenaries in Iraq is under renewed scrutiny in the wake of the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad on Sept. 16. Employee...
Kent Hoover Washington Bureau Chief The Small Business Administration has found itself in the middle of the controversy over Blackwater USA, the private security ...
By DAVID STOUT and JOHN M. BRODER Published: October 1, 2007 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 #8212; Guards working in Iraq for Blackwater USA have shot innocent Iraqi civilia...
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 In a Democracy Now! interview, Rep. Jan Schakowsky calls for the withdrawal of all guards with the firms Blackwater, DynCorp and Trip...
Jeremy Scahill posted November 8, 2007 (November 26, 2007 issue) Jan Schakowsky is one of the few members of Congress who have made confronting the radically priv...
November 9, 2007 01:26 PM By Michael Rosten A group of House members and one Senator came together on Tuesday to introduce the "Stop Outsourcing Security Act," a ...
Prosecuting private security contractors for shooting Iraqi civilians might be impossible. By Jeremy Scahill November 15, 2007 Federal agents investigating the Se...
Third world warriors fight U.S. wars for dollars a day Honduran soldier was among thousands who stood guard over Baghdad embassy, but couldn't legally enter Uni...
AT least three American private security companies have reportedly recruited about 300 Filipino #8220;private security operators #8221; or #8220;independent con...
January 10, 2008 By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON #8212; The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Ira...
Jeremy Scahill reports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not #8220;rule out #8221; using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide i...
by JEREMY SCAHILL from the March 17, 2008 issue Update from Jeremy Scahill: A day after this story went live on TheNation.com, Senator Hillary Clinton, whose st...
By Noah Shachtman EmailFebruary 29, 2008 10:42:00 AM Just as Blackwater had finally fallen from the headlines and the boys in Moyock thought their State Departm...
Need a private label armored vehicle? A detachment of Chilean infantrymen? A special forces "engagement team"? Erik Prince's expanding global private army is at y...
By Robert Brodsky rbrodsky #64;govexec.com March 3, 2008 Sen. Hillary Clinton has signed on as the first co sponsor of a bill that would ban the use of all Stat...
by JEREMY SCAHILL posted online on March 18, 2008 Hillary Clinton has just become the most significant US political figure to come out in favor of banning Black...
by: Eartha Jane Melzer Wednesday (03/12) at 08:28 AM Company insiders say job starved Michigan was poised to make a bad investment When Sovereign Deed LLC came to...
* NOVEMBER 19, 2008 Iraq Pact Forces Security Contractors to Confront Work Without Immunity By AUGUST COLE The new agreement covering the U.S. military presence...
U.S. Moves to Replace Contractors in Iraq Blackwater Losing Security Role; Other Jobs Being Converted to Public Sector By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Wri...
AP ENTERPRISE: Blackwater out of Iraq? No, not yet By MATTHEW LEE and MIKE BAKER, Associated Press Writers Matthew Lee And Mike Baker, Associated Press Writers ...
Blackwater, now Xe, era ends in Iraq Published: May 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM Chairman of Blackwater USA Erik Prince is sworn in prior to testifying before a House Over...
By Jeremy Scahill August 14, 2009 Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State...
New U.S. data show how heavily the Bush administration has relied on corporations to carry out the occupation of the war torn nation. By T. Christian Miller Tim...
Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died By MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret paym...
(TheNation) This column was written by R.J. Hillhouse. The unprecedented involvement of private corporations in the Iraq War has been well documented. Private sol...
There are 48,000 'security contractors' in Iraq, working for private companies growing rich on the back of US policy. But can it be a good thing to have so many m...
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