Archive for the 'Blackwater' Category

(RussiaToday) – Abby Martin highlights Jennifer Livingston, a local reporter who called out an internet troll as today’s hero, and called out Rob Tappan PR manager for Burson Marstellers as today’s villain, for aiding the defense contractor Blackwater in maintaining impunity against war crimes in Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – As Blackwater avoids war crimes prosecution, by paying a $7.5 million deferred prosecution bribe and promising they’ve changed, the only thing that’s changed is their name. Read the rest of this entry »

Going public with long time secret unconstitutional operations

(SteveWatson) – A high ranking Pentagon lawyer argued Wednesday that US citizens accused of having ties to terror groups can legitimately be targeted for assassination.

In a speech at Yale Law School, Jeh C. Johnson, the Defense Department general counsel, also said that US courts do not have the right to review such cases, or pass judgment on decisions taken by the Executive branch on such matters. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: 270,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto – Read More Here

(DarkGovernment) – A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State “security services,” that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – With U.S. forces packing up and leaving – Iraq, devasted by almost a decade of war, is looking at an uncertain future. And that offers a profitable opportunity for the world’s most infamous mercenary company – Blackwater. Now rebranded ‘Academi’ – and with an unsullied new leadership – it’s hoping to bury its bloody past in Iraq, while turning a buck. Read the rest of this entry »

(AFP) – A leaked US diplomatic cable says that “hundreds” of former employees of Blackwater, which was barred from Iraq over a deadly 2007 shooting, later worked with other firms guarding US diplomats here.

Iraq announced in January 2009 that it would not renew Blackwater’s operating licence due to a September 16, 2007 incident in which guards protecting a US diplomatic convoy opened fire in Baghdad’s busy Nisur Square, killing at least 14 civilians. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – The former boss of the NSA and the CIA, Michael Hayden, has called for a “digital Blackwater” to deal with so-called cyber threats. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Xe Services, the private military contractor formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, announced on Friday that it had been sold to a group of private equity investors with ties to company founder Erik Prince. Investigative Journalist Wayne Madsen says the government involvement with Blackwater is a revolving door of former government officials becoming employed by the company. Read the rest of this entry »

Pentagon Papers Whistleblowers Call for a New 9/11 Investigation Read the rest of this entry »

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(Uruknet) – A Turning Point Quietly Reached

Israel does not want anything that could conceivably be called a genuine peace. Read More Here

(PressTV) – ‘Iraq church gunmen in mercenary outfit’

An Iraqi official has revealed that the gunmen involved in the country’s recent church drama could have been members of foreign security companies. Read More Here

(PressTV) – US deploys fourth submarine in PG

The United States has deployed its fourth submarine in the Persian Gulf region following the deployment of three others near the Bahrain Port. Read More Here

(MailOnline) – The entente frugale: Cost-cutting 50-year deal that will see French take command of the SAS and Britain share nuclear secrets – Read More Here

(PressTV) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said US private security firms, including Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, are being behind terrorism in the country.

At a press conference in Kabul, Karzai said that US security companies have been behind explosions that have claimed the lives of women and children. Read the rest of this entry »

(PoorRichard) – A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State “security services,” that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – Afghanistan has officially banned eight foreign security firms, including American contractor Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater.

Afghan officials say the private contractors have been dissolved and their weapons collected. Read the rest of this entry »

(Wired) – Never mind the dead civilians. Forget about the stolen guns. Get over the murder arrests, the fraud allegations, and the accusations of guards pumping themselves up with steroids and cocaine. Through a “joint venture,” the notorious private-security firm Blackwater has won a piece of a five-year State Department contract worth up to $10 billion, Danger Room has learned. Read the rest of this entry »

(FoodFreedom) – Agribusiness giant Monsanto, which genetically modifies plants to exude or tolerate pesticide or to produce nonviable seed, hired the services of the mercenary firm Blackwater to spy on activists, Jeremy Scahill reports. A death-tech firm weds a hit squad. Read the rest of this entry »

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See Also: (RawStory) – Walt Disney, Monsanto discovered among Blackwater’s hidden clients – Read More Here

Also: (TheNation) – Blackwater’s Black Ops: Sought to Become Monsanto’s “Intel Arm” – Read More Here

(DemocracyNow) – “Blackwater’s Black Ops”—that’s the title of an explosive new article in The Nation magazine that reveals how entities closely linked with the private security firm Blackwater have provided security and intelligence services to a range of powerful corporations over the past several years. The companies include Monsanto, Chevron, Deutsche Bank and others. Blackwater has also provided intelligence and training services to foreign governments, including Jordan, the Canadian military and the Dutch police. We speak with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. Video Link Here

(OnlineJournal) – WMR has learned from a deep background source that Xe Services, the company formerly known as Blackwater, has been conducting false flag terrorist attacks in Pakistan that are later blamed on the entity called “Pakistani Taliban.” Read the rest of this entry »

(AP) – The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported.

The newspaper said Friday that it was unclear how many of the created companies got American contracts but that at least three of them obtained work with the U.S. military and the CIA. Read the rest of this entry »

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(RawStory) – Scahill: Blackwater used shell company to defraud US government

Blackwater set up a shell company to “defraud the government” by leading it to believe it wasn’t contracting with the notorious security contractor, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill says. Read More Here

(WashingtonIndependent) – Blackwater Took Hundreds of Guns From U.S. Military, Afghan Police

Senate Inquiry Shows Contractor Signed for Rifles Using ‘South Park’ Alias Read More Here

(RevolutionaryPolitics) – Blackwater on Trial: Murders, drugs & alcohol

American security guards charged with killing two civilians in Afghanistan had criminal records, a Senate committee has heard. They were guilty of assault, battery and drug-taking in the past. The men were in Afghanistan with a subsidiary of the private security firm Blackwater, previously accused of murdering civilians in Iraq. View Video Here

(RawStory) – A Code Pink protester claimed a high-ranking Blackwater official threatened his life during a break of a Senate Armed Services hearing focused on the military contractor’s actions in Afghanistan.

Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin reported that the threat was made by Johnny Walker, a program manager with one of Blackwater’s subsidiaries. Walker testified at the hearing about the role his company, Paravant, played during its mercenary deployments to the Middle East. Read More Here

Fans of the CBS-terminated TV series JERICHO will recognize the name “Ravenwood.” This was the ruthless mercenary force used by the illegitimate federal government at Cheyenne to subjugate the citizens of Kansas in the aftermath of a massive nuclear attack against two dozen American cities. Read the rest of this entry »

In response to growing criticism and suspicion, American Police Force has changed its name, changed its logo and altered several areas of its website in an attempt to “diffuse tension” surrounding the private paramilitary organization that wants to take over law enforcement duties while bossing a $27 million dollar detention facility in Hardin, Montana. Read the rest of this entry »

Newly released Pentagon statistics show that in both Iraq and Afghanistan the number of armed contractors is rising. The DoD says it sees “similar dependence on contractors in future.” Read the rest of this entry »