Blackwater's Private Spies
Jeremy Scahill
The notorious mercenary firm is now a one-stop shop for security outsourcing, offering CIA-like services to Fortune 500 companies.
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Contract Justice
Jeremy Scahill : Iraq War
An Iraqi translator is prosecuted and Blackwater has its contract renewed for another year, armed and dangerous in Baghdad.
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Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign
Jeremy Scahill : Presidential Election 2008
Clinton and Obama each have nuanced plans to ban private security firms from Iraq. The difference is how they're spinning them.
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Blackwater, the Campaign Issue
Jeremy Scahill & VideoNation
In this interview with RealNews, Nation Correspondent Jeremy Scahill explains how Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama differ on the use of private security contractors in Iraq.
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Obama's Mercenary Position
Jeremy Scahill : Iraq War
He calls private security forces "unaccountable" but may use them in Iraq. Meanwhile, Clinton wants to ban them. UPDATED
2007
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Blackwater's Bu$ine$$
Jeremy Scahill : Presidential Election 2008
Undeterred by scandal, Blackwater's global business is booming and continues to pursue its political agenda from deep inside the Mitt Romney campaign.
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Blackwater's Brothers
Jeremy Scahill : State Department
A deepening conflict-of-interest scandal envelops the Krongard brothers--Howard, a State Department official overseeing Blackwater contracts, and his brother Alvin, who has long been cozy with the mercenary firm.
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All Cowboys Out Now
Firms like Blackwater operate in a demand-based industry, and it is this demand that must be cut off.
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Baghdad on the Bayou
On the Oct. 19 edition of Bill Moyers' Journal The Nation 's Jeremy Scahill tells of how Blackwater USA President Erik Prince sent armed guards to New Orleans to provide security to affluent neighborhoods in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Noted.
How Chevron fuels the Myanmar military, Blackwater's legal woes and questions for Michael Mukasey.
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Iraqis Sue Blackwater for Baghdad Killings
Blackwater USA now faces wrongful death suits in US court brought by survivors of three Iraqi civilians killed in the September 16 Baghdad shootings.
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Calling Blackwater to Account
Susan Burke of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill explain details of a lawsuit against Blackwater USA filed in connection with a Baghdad shooting. Video courtesy of Democracy Now.
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Blackwatergate
Jeremy Scahill : State Department
Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and his State Department enablers have a lot of explaining to do.
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The State Department's Hired Guns
Why did the State Department tolerate--and pay to conceal--the crimes of its Blackwater guards in Iraq?
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Making a Killing
Who will mete out justice for America's merchants of death?
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End the Shadow War
: Iraq War
Blackwater USA should answer for the crimes of its soldier-contractors in Iraq. Calls for withdrawal from Iraq must also include private security contractors.
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Order 17
A closer look at the US rule that gives military contractors like Blackwater a free pass to murder, terrorize and pillage their way through Iraq.
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Blackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law
Acting with impunity and immune from prosecution, a shadow army funded by US taxpayers is fueling the spiraling violence in Iraq.
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Pull the Plug on the Mercenary War
Who will stop the shadow US army in Iraq? Don't count on Congressional Democrats.
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Bush's Shadow Army
Jeremy Scahill : George W. Bush Administration
An investigation into Blackwater USA reveals a frightening picture of a politically connected private army that serves as the administration's Praetorian guard.
2006
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From Whitewater to Blackwater
Jeremy Scahill & Garrett Ordower : The Courts
Blackwater USA has a new attorney to defend it against a wrongful death lawsuit by families of four contractors killed in Iraq: Kenneth Starr.
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Pay To Be Saved
Unless something changes soon, New Orleans will prove to be a glimpse of a dystopic future, a future of disaster apartheid in which the wealthy are saved and everyone else is left behind.
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Blackwater Shot Down in Federal Court
A federal appeals court has ruled a wrongful death lawsuit can proceed against Blackwater USA: Families claim the firm cut corners in pursuit of profit in Iraq, leading to the brutal deaths of four employees in Fallujah in 2004.
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Mercenary Jackpot
Jeremy Scahill : State Department
As the United States decries the private militias of Lebanon and Iraq, GOP-connected, privately owned global mercenary firms receive blank checks and little oversight.
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In the Black(water)
Hurricane victims are still homeless in New Orleans, but thanks to the federal government's $30 million contract bonanza, Blackwater USA's profits are soaring.
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Blood Is Thicker Than Blackwater
Lawsuits by families of soldiers-for-hire killed in Falluja have put a major war profiteer in the cross-hairs.
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