Scholars and Rogues
Another terrific blog: Scholars and Rogues. They address a wide range of topics but their coverage of the Blackwater group is terrifying.
Showing posts with label Blackwater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blackwater. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Blackwater
Meet Blackwater.MEET BLACKWATER USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has made its Praetorian Guard for the “global war on terror.” Blackwater has the world's largest private military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and 20,000 contractors at the ready. Run by a multimillionaire Christian conservative who bankrolls President Bush and his allies, its forces are capable of overthrowing governments, and yet most people have never heard of Blackwater. That is about to change.
I'm buying the book.
Friday, June 8, 2007
Blackwater
Raleigh, NC - The families of four American security contractors who were burned, beaten, dragged through the streets of Fallujah and their decapitated bodies hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River on March 31, 2004, are reaching out to the American public to help protect themselves against the very company their loved ones were serving when killed, Blackwater Security Consulting. After Blackwater lost a series of appeals all the away to the U.S. Supreme Court, Blackwater has now changed its tactics and is suing the dead men's estates for $10 million to silence the families and keep them out of court.
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Blackwater is owned by Erik Prince, a billionaire right-wing fundamentalist Christian from a powerful Michigan Republican family.
A defense fund has been established by which the public is able to donate money to assist the families with litigation costs and expenses.It will be interesting to see how many church members step up to help these families.
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