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Blackwater is in Donbass with the Azov battalion

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 1 February 2022

The CIA and MI6 are reorganizing NATO stay-behind networks in Eastern Europe. If after the Second World War they relied on former Nazis to fight the Soviets, they still support neo-Nazi groups against the Russians. There is no obvious reason for this. The Nazis were plethora in the 1940s, they (…)

The United States, Germany, Canada, Israel and the United Kingdom launched "Operation Jericho"

Obama failed his coup in Venezuela

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 24 February 2015

Once again, the Obama administration has tried to force the change of a political regime that resists it. On February 12, an Academi (formerly Blackwater) plane disguised as an aircraft of the Venezuelan army was supposed to bomb the presidential palace and kill President Nicolas Maduro. The (…)

CIA director in Kiev searching for missing mercenaries

16 April 2014

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed that CIA director John Brennan was in Kiev last weekend. One of his advisors told the newspaper Vzgliad that Brennan had not come to oversee the "anti-terrorist" operations conducted by the Ukrainian authorities, but to seek information and rescue (…)

Academi (ex-Blackwater) was not sold (correction)

10 August 2013

In a brief, dated from July 26th 2013, we revealed that, according to SouthWeb, Academi (former Blackwater) had been bought off by Monsanto [2].
Yet, SouthWeb backtracked on this information and refuted it. According to it, Monsanto did in fact have recourse to the services of the most (…)

Academi (ex-Blackwater) acquired by Monsanto

4 August 2013

See Erratum : « Academi (ex-Blackwater) was not sold (correction) », Voltaire Network, July 26th, 2013.
Academi (ex-Blackwater), the world’s most powerful private army, reveals having been signed over, without indicating the name of the buyer, nor the amount for which it was bought. (…)

Mercenaries used by Bush, now fighting Obama’s secret wars

Blackwater (Xe): The Secret US War in Pakistan

by Andrew Hobbs, Brittney Gates, Kelsea Arnold

24 July 2012

According to a bipartisan commission report released to the U.S. Congress in February 2011, the heavy reliance on private security companies in current contingency operations, begun during the Bush Administration, has effectively surged under President Barack Obama, raising use-of-force issues (…)

THE ART OF WAR

The privatization of war

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 12 March 2012

Before being an economic doctrine, neoliberalism is a political project. Wherever it has extended its influence, even the armies have been put through the privatization grinder. As Manlio Dinucci explains, today’s wars are increasingly conducted by private companies and less and less by (…)

Blackwater rebranded ‘Academi’ wants back in Iraq

14 December 2011

Say goodbye to Xe. The company formerly known as Blackwater — the world’s most infamous private security corporation — has jettisoned the name it chose in its 2009 rebrand and adopted the new name of “Academi.”
The “security solutions provider” wants to wash away the taint of what came (…)

War drums are beating for Iran. But who’s playing them?

by Terry Jones

10 December 2011

For Terry Jones, the military-industrial complex is no stranger to the current campaigns against Iran. According to the British artist, we find ourselves in exactly the same situation as the taxpayers of medieval Italian cities: We’re having our money siphoned off to pay for a greedy military (…)

A Secret Army of Mercenaries for the Middle East and North Africa

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 1 June 2011

Each member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council is invited to take part in the Arabic counter-revolution. As regards the United Arab Emirates, which have already supplied a contingent of policemen to quash demonstrations in Bahrain, they have decided to take their contribution a step further (…)

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In Re Barak, Bullahs, BlackWater, Bounties & the STL

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 26 February 2011

Erik D. Prince
When the US marines were in and out of Lebanon in 1983-1984, some of those I met, when visiting their barracks with American journalist Janet Stevens to discuss Israel’s use of American cluster bombs against civilians, had the habit, as did sailors from the USS New (…)

General Beg accuses Blackwater (Xe) of Bhutto’s & Hariri’s assassinations on Washington’s behalf

27 September 2009

During an interview with a Pakistani TV network on 20 September 2009, General Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.) accused the United States of assassinating Pakistani prime minister Benzair Bhutto and former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri. He specified that the assassinations had been carried out by (…)

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Obama administration uses Blackwater in drone killings

by Tom Eley

23 August 2009

According to a recent report by the New York Times, the Obama administration has retained the services of the notorious Blackwater guards to carry out drone attacks in Afghanistan, denoting no substantive distinction from the Bush administration’s use of Blackwater - now operating under the (…)

Privatization of brutality (Video)

US Cities Increasing Use of Armed Mercenaries to Replace Police

by Jeremy Scahill

26 April 2009

From Iraq to the streets of American cities, the deployment of private security forces - including Israeli commandos - to take the place of police officers has spiked significantly and is raising grave concerns. Few areas have seen as dramatic a transformation to privatized services as the world (…)

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