After more than five years of rampant violence and misconduct carried out by the massive army of private corporate contractors in Iraq…
Jeremy Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist who reports for Democracy Now! and The Nation, as well as an expert on privatized…
It seems that executives from Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush Administration’s favorite hired guns in Iraq and Afghanistan, are threatening to pack up…
This past September, the secretive mercenary company Blackwater USA found its name splashed across front pages throughout the world after the company’s…
Back in 1989, in his smash hit Say Anything, John Cusack famously stood with a boom box above his head outside the…
Jeremy Scahill is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He is an award-winning…
News Flash: The Bush administration acknowledges there is a such thing as international law. But, predictably, it is not being invoked…
Apparently there is one set of rights for Blackwater mercenaries and another for the rest of us. Normally when a group…
Blackwater USA is facing a lawsuit over the September 16 killings in Baghdad‘s Nisour Square. The largest mercenary company working for the…
It’s being described as “Baghdad‘s bloody Sunday.” On September 16 a heavily armed State Department convoy guarded by Blackwater USA was whizzing…
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