“The implications of allowing a US citizen to assemble a legion in any foreign country, and especially in a combustible region like the Middle East, are serious and wide-ranging,” they allege.

Why is Blackwater founder Erik Prince building a mercenary army for the United Arab Emirates? The contracted guns will be much less involved in maintaining the peace than they will in suppressing any dissent within the country. 

Blackwater’s Erik Prince is building an army of mercenaries for the United Arab Emirates. One that includes no Muslims. What is going on here?

Blackwater’s infamous founder is building a mercenary army in the United Arab Emirates.

Christina-Taylor Green was nine years old. She was born on September 11, 2001. She died on January 8, 2011 in Tucson, along with a federal judge and four others in a shooting targeting her Congresswoman.

 A confidential cable, released by Wikileaks, from the US embassies in Afghanistan and Pakistan reveals that US diplomats were asked for intelligence on refugee camps "for targeting purposes."  

The businessman also alleges he witnessed Blackwater’s cocaine- and hashish-laced "frat parties gone wild" and random shooting at Iraqi civilians.

Jeremy Scahill says secret documents reveal Blackwater’s relationships with multinational corporations like Monsanto and Chevron, as well as to foreign governments.

Jeremy Scahill says secret documents reveal Blackwater’s relationships with multinational corporations like Monsanto and Chevron, as well as to foreign governments.