Blackwater Loses License to Work in Iraq
Back in early June, I wagered my husband that Blackwater was going to make the front page of MSN within six month, with news of their problems in Iraq. Sure enough. BAGHDAD – The Iraqi government said Monday that it was revoking the license of an American security firm accused of involvement in the deaths [...]
Dying in the Shadows
They are the hidden casualties of the Iraq War, members of a large “shadow force” who help to keep the machinery of war operating. Their work is undeniably essential, more so considering how the human resources of the U.S. military are stretched dangerously taut and how the colossal burdens of maintaining this colossal misadventure continue [...]
Protest of Blackwater Training Ground in CA
Protest is mounting around Potrero, CA and the proposed training ground for Blackwater USA. Strangely, the size of the proposed facility appears to have shrunk from 324 acres, as quoted in Raw Story (see previous post), to 220 acres, as quoted in today’s story. From Fox News in San Diego: Dozens of people protested a [...]
Blackwater Plans to Build Massive Training Ground
It looks like back-room deals for land use happen in every community — it’s the degree of the problem that makes the story. Here in Cranston, Rhode Island, we have a concrete plant trying to insert itself on a piece of flood-zone land in a bunch of people’s backyards, and a grassroots organization of residents [...]
Blackwater– Murky Contracting, Murky Authority
There are many questions raised by the US contracting with Blackwater USA, questions which are researched and documented in the new book by Jeremy Scahill entitled Blackwater, the Rise of the World’s most Powerful Mercenary Army, which is excerpted here at The Nation. The basic push and pull of Blackwater is that the Bush administration [...]
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