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New Report Reveals US Funds the Taliban
Democracy Now : Nation contributor Aram Roston on how the US government is financing the very same insurgent forces in Afghanistan that American and NATO soldiers are fighting.
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Triple Canopy Iraq and Electrocution Deaths
Democracy Now : Jeremy Scahill appears with the Hermanson family, whose son Adam was killed in Iraq while employed with Triple Canopy, the "new Blackwater."
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CIA Hires Blackwater for Assassinations
Democracy Now : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill talks about the possible involvement of the private contractor's owner Erik Prince in multiple murders.
Scahill asserted that he hopes that US foreign policy will change, but noted that the current team is, as he put it, a "kettle of hawks." In terms of Blackwater and other security contractor firms, Scahill said there might be cause of some optimism, as the typically hawkish Hillary Clinton has come out (on paper) in support of a ban on Blackwater. To read more of The Nation's coverage of the Blackwater indictments, click here.
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