Battle Lines Drawn: Residents of rural Potrero fight to halt Blackwater #8217;s proposed military training camp By Miriam Raftery, The East County Californian Pa...
LATEST NEWS * Southwestern College will send its police academy students to the Blackwater Lodge and Training Center in Otay Mesa for weapons training under an...
BlackwaterOtayProtestRally SAY NO TO BLACKWATER! DEMONSTRATION, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 3 5 pm. STOP WAR PROFITEERS STOP BLACKWATER We've had enough of this adminis...
Blackwater Potrero "Blackwater West" Mercenary Camp BlackwaterWorldwide, part of the PrinceGroup and one of the largest private military contractors in the worl...
Read and endorse our Open Letter To Congress regarding dismissal of Blackwater and enactment of the Stop Outsourcing Security Act. Blackwater Worldwide (formerly...
ClubConvention The CouncilOfClubs will be throwing a ClubConvention on Sept. 8th, 2007. The goal of the convention is to promote participation in the clubs. A sc...
_Potrero Blackwater battle in national spotlight_ By Miriam Raftery The East County Californian April 26, 2007 After The East County Californian published a thre...
EventsArchive EventsArchive2009 Calendar events for 2009 2006 Paste in events that are deleted from the Calendar Page. * 30 Sep 2006 Hanson Fundraiser, R...
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Filner wants review of Blackwater He considers bill to stop Potrero plan By Anne Krueger STAFF WRITER April 14, 2007 Rep. Bob Filner says he is exploring legis...
'These private contractors can get away with murder... They aren't subject to any laws at all' Published: 04 June 2007 Iraq is rapidly vanishing into the mists of...
They say they are not a mercenary outfit, but Blackwater USA has one of the most profitable private armies in the world, with outposts in Iraq and Afghanistan. No...
By Jeremy Scahill If you think the U.S. has only 160,000 troops in Iraq, think again. With almost no congressional oversight and even less public awareness, the B...
By JeremyScahill While BlackwaterWorldwide and other firms reject the label #8220;mercenary #8221; firms, Blackwater executives have even turned the grey area in...
April 19, 2007 Blackwater Plans for New Military Facility Near San Diego Draws Fire From Residents, Peace Activists and Local Congressmember The private secur...
Tibor Fischer reviews Blackwater: the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill His father was a self made millionaire. He became a US Na...
It seems right out of a shoot 'em up Hollywood thriller: A shadowy private American security company led by a messianic right winger by the name of Erik Prince wh...
Tue Sep 18, 10:52 AM ET TheNation The news that the Iraqi government has banned Blackwater USA, the notorious mercenary firm, from operating in the country reve...
By Ken Fireman and Robin Stringer Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) A Blackwater USA spokeswoman said the U.S. security company is blameless of wrongdoing in a shooting inci...
Sept. 21: After talks with Iraq #8217;s government, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is allowing Blackwater contractors to resume work on a limited basis. Author Jerem...
By JeremyScahill, TheNation So far Blackwater has only received a slap on the wrist after killing innocent civilians. Are the U.S. and Iraqi governments finally r...
Blamed in the deaths of Iraqi civilians, the private security firm has long ties to the White House and prominent Republicans, including Ken Starr. By Ben Van Heu...
LosAngelesTimes Apr 17, 2007 Blackwater USA, a private army that promises "the most comprehensive professional security, peacekeeping and stability operations" in...
JeremyScahill on Blackwater http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10192007/transcript1.html October 19, 2007 Bill Moyers talks journalist Jeremy Scahill, Part 1 BILL...
/Dutiful and intense, son of a self made billionaire, Erik Prince is an adventure seeker and conservative true believer. / By Evan Thomas and Mark Hosenball Oct....
State to Blackwater: Nothing You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Court of Law Posted October 30, 2007 05:53 PM (EST) Apparently there is one set of ri...
IRAQ: When Blackwater Kills, No Questions Asked By Ali al Fadhily* BAGHDAD, Oct 30 (IPS) The recent attacks by Blackwater USA mercenaries in Baghdad are far fro...
HOLLAND Intensely private like his late father Edgar Prince, Erik Prince has moved into the national spotlight because of a best selling book about his elite priv...
Posted October 10, 2007 08:12 PM (EST) Most of us accept Tip O'Neill's adage that all politics is local. Yet, most of us want to play on the big stage, push for...
The only punishment doled out to US security men involved in deadly shootings is a jet home Jeremy Scahill Saturday October 6, 2007 Guardian Erik Prince, the secr...
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 The Center for Constitutional Rights is filing a lawsuit today under the Alien Tort Claims Act on behalf of the families of three of ...
Jeremy Scahill, author of the book "Blackwater: The rise of the worlds most powerful mercenary army" speaks and answers questions. Held at the La Mesa Community C...
By Adam Howard, AlterNet Posted on November 6, 2007 They have their own army, air force and more. Maher asks Scahill, "Could Blackwater stage a coup and if they d...
For Immediate Release Not to Be Missed Extraordinary Evening with Two of the Most Dynamic Voices of the New Generation of Independent Unembedded Journalists: A Di...
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 In a Democracy Now! interview, Rep. Jan Schakowsky calls for the withdrawal of all guards with the firms Blackwater, DynCorp and Trip...
Jeremy Scahill posted November 8, 2007 (November 26, 2007 issue) Jan Schakowsky is one of the few members of Congress who have made confronting the radically priv...
Prosecuting private security contractors for shooting Iraqi civilians might be impossible. By Jeremy Scahill November 15, 2007 Federal agents investigating the Se...
article posted November 15, 2007 (web only) Jeremy Scahill Every day, new revelations emerge in the mounting scandal rocking the Bush Administration and the merce...
By Larry Chin Online Journal Associate Editor Nov 19, 2007, 01:18 New bombshell testimony before Congress has revealed that Alvin B. "Buzzy" Krongard, the former ...
A landmark lawsuit brought by the families of four employees of the security firm Blackwater USA killed in Iraq three years ago has been partially derailed. This ...
The Guardian UK Rural community opposes expansion by company at centre of Iraq allegations Dan Glaister in Potrero, California Friday November 30, 2007 Randel Par...
In late 2006, Blackwater USA, now known as Blackwater Worldwide, submitted a proposal to build a training facility called Blackwater West in the rural San Diego C...
By Jeremy Scahill from the December 24, 2007 issue Gunning down seventeen Iraqi civilians in an incident the military has labeled "criminal." Multiple Congressi...
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney cited Cofer Black, the former head of Counterterrorism at the CIA, as his advisor on issues involving prisoner interro...
AT least three American private security companies have reportedly recruited about 300 Filipino #8220;private security operators #8221; or #8220;independent con...
Last week in Currituck County, N.C., Superior Court Judge Russell Duke presided over the final step in securing the first criminal conviction stemming from the de...
Posted by Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet at 9:33 AM on February 2, 2008. If there's one thing that can be said about Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush administration's fav...
On January 16, the New York Times reported that Justice Department officials have informed Congress of #8220;serious legal difficulties #8221; in prosecuting Bla...
Whether this mattered to him or not, Judge Duke's words were interesting, given the religious fanaticism and avowed patriotism of Blackwater's owner, Erik Prince....
By Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake Posted on March 1, 2008 One of the reasons we haven't endorsed during the presidential primary, as we've said often times, is because...
Jeremy Scahill reports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not #8220;rule out #8221; using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide i...
by JEREMY SCAHILL from the March 17, 2008 issue Update from Jeremy Scahill: A day after this story went live on TheNation.com, Senator Hillary Clinton, whose st...
By Noah Shachtman EmailFebruary 29, 2008 10:42:00 AM Just as Blackwater had finally fallen from the headlines and the boys in Moyock thought their State Departm...
Chris Hedges is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and won a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Armed units from the private sec...
Winning the prestigious George Polk award is bittersweet vindication for investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. His book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's M...
Is there an ethics that justifies Blackwater? The state, Max Weber wrote in his classic essay "Politics as a Vocation," "is a human community that (successfully) ...
By Miriam Raftery The Alpine Sun POTRERO #8212; Blackwater has backed out of its plan to build a private military and law enforcement training camp on an 82...
by JEREMY SCAHILL posted online on March 18, 2008 Hillary Clinton has just become the most significant US political figure to come out in favor of banning Black...
Presentation by RaymondLutz Covers history of Prince Family, Start of Blackwater, recent events contributing to their success, expansion, and the Potrero "Blackwa...
Neither Clinton nor Obama has a real plan to end the occupation of Iraq, but they could be forced to change position By Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill The Guardi...
Katie DeLong A local journalist is adding to the international debate concerning the war in Iraq. It's a war entering its sixth year now, and more than any other ...
By Kevin Martinez 26 March 2008 On March 7, private contractor Blackwater Worldwide announced it was abandoning plans to construct a military and police training ...
No matter who wins the White House, the security firm is shooting for lucrative work. By JeremyScahill June 16, 2008 From California to Iraq, business has never b...
SAN DIEGO BlackwaterWorldwide, the for profit private army best known for its deadly role in Iraq, obtained a temporary restraining order in federal court on June...
By Adam Howard Posted on June 10, 2007, Printed on June 12, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/bloggers//53723/ Blackwater USA, the nefarious sounding and behaving cont...
Jun 11, 2008 Andrew Phelps BlackwaterWorldwide may have succeeded in opening its Navy training center in Otay Mesa, but it has not succeeded in quieting its cri...
by Sandra Svoboda Training Iraqi soldiers in SWAT procedures didn't seem like mercenary work to Greg, who took a yearlong leave of absence from a Midwestern polic...
by Matthew Schwarzfeld July 18, 2008 10:06 am EDT Tags: Barack Obama, Blackwater, John McCain, Military Contractor Abuse Scandal Senators Barack Obama and John...
The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sell out on the Iraq war. While the wrangling over the $124 billion Iraq supplemental s...
Raymond Lutz, creator of the website "StopBlackwater.net" and one of the leaders of the movement to stop war profiteers like Blackwater, reviews the current statu...
Congressman Bob Filner and Assembly candidate Ray Lutz of East County speak out against Blackwater at Otay Mesa Rally Story and photos by Gayle Early Sign fr...
by JeremyScahill from the May 8, 2006 issue It is one of the most infamous incidents of the war in Iraq: On March 31, 2004, four private American security contr...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:January 27, 2009LOCAL RESIDENTS ASK: WHY WAS THIS PRIVATE PARAMILITARY FIRM APPROVED BY THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS?Protest Pl...
(Video: http://www.kpbs.org/tv/full_focus;id=8977 ) The joke around Potrero is if you're on Highway 94 and you blink, you just might miss the town. Potrero is sma...
Scandal Ridden Blackwater Changes Name Controversial Security Firm Attempts to Rebrand Itself By MADDY SAUER and MEGAN CHUCHMACH *February 13, 2009 * The scandal ...
Blackwater Changes Its Name, Shall Now Be Called the Knights Who Say 'Xe' By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNetPosted on February 13, 2009, Printed on February 14, 2009 ht...
Jeremy Scahill Independent journalist, author, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army Posted March 2, 2009 12:34 PM (EST) BIO Become a...
Blackwater like Procinctu Group Project Given Hearing without Notice Riverside County Board of Supervisors conduct mock hearing on March 17th in blatant disrega...
Notes: Byrd Hale Protest/Comment at the Board of Governor's Meeting April 15 The Board of Trustees voted to renegotiate the contract with Blackwater, removing ...
22 Arrested at Blackwater's Illinois Compound More people have been arrested for protesting on Blackwater property than mercenaries who have killed innocent Iraqi...
Partner content from: The Nation: Blackwater Seeks Gag Order by Jeremy Scahill Gervasio Sanchez Plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in ...
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder By Jeremy Scahill August 4, 2009 A former Blackwater employee and an ex US Marine who has worked as a security operativ...
By Jeremy Scahill August 14, 2009 Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State...
By Bill Berkowitz OAKLAND, Jun 29 (IPS) Ten years ago, Erik Prince, the son of a conservative multi millionaire, founded the security consulting firm Blackwater...
Cindy McCain Bankrolled Conference That Called for Ban on Mercenaries The McCain Conference on Ethics and Military Leadership appears to be ahead of the senator...
Judge Refuses to Dismiss War Crimes Case Against Blackwater By Jeremy Scahill October 22, 2009 On Wednesday, a federal judge rejected a series of arguments b...
Blackwater s Secret War in Pakistan: Jeremy Scahill Reveals Private Military Firm Operating in Pakistan Under Covert Assassination and Kidnapping Program In an ...
There are 48,000 'security contractors' in Iraq, working for private companies growing rich on the back of US policy. But can it be a good thing to have so many m...
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