CIA Hires Blackwater for Assassinations CIA Hires Blackwater for Assassinations
The Nation's Jeremy Scahill talks about the possible involvement of the private contractor's owner Erik Prince in multiple murders.
Aug 20, 2009 / Democracy Now!
Blackwater: CIA Assassins? Blackwater: CIA Assassins?
The mercenary firm has a long and dark history with the CIA. Were they Bush and Cheney's private hit men?
Aug 20, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater Still Armed in Iraq Blackwater Still Armed in Iraq
The private security company doesn't have a license to operate in Iraq, but the State Department continues to employ Erik Prince's armed mercenaries.
Aug 14, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Biking Out of Iraq Biking Out of Iraq
Reflections on troops that don't depart, experts who never leave the scene, an Air Force that suddenly wasn't there and a war that no longer needs justification.
Aug 13, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Blackwater, Black Deeds Blackwater, Black Deeds
An explosive story by The Nation's Jeremy Scahill sheds new light on the shady dealings of Blackwater, leading to renewed calls for a Congressional investigation into the military ...
Aug 12, 2009 / The Editors
Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland
A single platoon lost in a military limbo is a measurement of the stress under which the US Army now operates.
Aug 10, 2009 / Feature / Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare
US Still Paying Blackwater Millions US Still Paying Blackwater Millions
Despite the State Department's announcement canceling Blackwater's contracts in Iraq, the Obama administration will pay the company more than $174 million for security services in ...
Aug 7, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater or Murder, Inc.? Blackwater or Murder, Inc.?
Between the illegal weapons, explosive ammunition and the possibility that Blackwater operatives killed civilians as practice, the picture of the military contractor gets darker by...
Aug 6, 2009 / Countdown
Hiroshima Day Hiroshima Day
The official secrecy and deceptions about our nuclear weapons posture and policies and their possible consequences have threatened the survival of the human species.
Aug 6, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Ellsberg
For the Sixty-Fourth Time: No More Nuclear War For the Sixty-Fourth Time: No More Nuclear War
On the 64th anniversary of atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki the threat of a nuclear war remains potent. US nuclear policy hasn't changed enough since the Bush years.
Aug 5, 2009 / Feature / Frida Berrigan