For all the scandal, the mercenary firm has escaped any severe legal sanction. That could now change

Jeremy Scahill
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 11 November 2009 18.00 GMT

The mercenary firm Blackwater has become a symbol of the utter lawlessness and criminality that [...]

Help White House Thwart Peace Movement
By Sherwood Ross

Global Research, August 31, 2009
The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it easier for the White House to subvert domestic public opinion and wage wars.
Americans are less inclined to oppose a war that is being fought by hired foreign [...]

By Jeremy Scahill
August 4, 2009
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