Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
Private Military Contractor High on Opium Killed U.S. Marine?
March 5th, 2010Via: Daily Herald: No American soldier should die the way Josh Birchfield did. There was much more to his “supporting combat operations” death than what the military put out. It was the standard Pentagon release. A soldier is killed. A clerk types in their name. “____________ died while supporting combat operations.” There is no Pentagon […]
Blackwater Created Cutout to Continue Receiving Government Contracts
March 2nd, 2010Via: Guardian: Employees of American defence contractor Blackwater took more than 500 assault rifles that were intended for the Afghan police force and routinely carried weapons without permission, it emerged in a hearing of the Senate armed services committee today. It also emerged that to shed its sullied reputation and win contracting business in Afghanistan, […]
700 Military Bases Spread Across Afghanistan
February 12th, 2010Via: Alternet: Today, according to official sources, approximately 700 bases of every size dot the Afghan countryside, and more, like the one in Shinwar, are under construction or soon will be as part of a base-building boom that began last year. Existing in the shadows, rarely reported on and little talked about, this base-building program […]
Schwarzenegger: Pay to Build Prisons in Mexico to Incarcerate Illegal Alien Convicts (Not The Onion)
January 28th, 2010Via: Sacramento Bee: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday offered yet another way California can save on incarcerating illegal immigrants: pay to build prisons in Mexico. Schwarzenegger said in a Sacramento Press Club speech that rather than raise taxes, the state could find money by cutting pension costs, allowing offshore oil drilling and lowering prison expenditures. […]
Military Outsources Rescue Operations
January 21st, 2010How much of the military can the CIA spin off into its cutouts? Via: Wired: In the American military, few missions are considered more important than rescuing missing or kidnapped troops. So it’s more than a little odd that U.S. forces in Iraq have decided to outsource that operation to a private company. The military’s […]
Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?
January 11th, 2010Via: The Nation: German prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with suspected ties to Al Qaeda. The alleged assassination operation was revealed last month in a Vanity Fair […]
‘Fonz’ Thanked for Bringing Clinton to NZ
January 11th, 2010Anyone who thinks that U.S. billionaires are good for New Zealand should travel to the U.S. to inspect the aftermath of their handy work. In other news: We just roll over, put our legs in the air, and say ‘do what you like to us’. NZ, US Set to Resume Joint Military Drills Lockheed May […]
Two Former Blackwater Guards Charged with Murder
January 8th, 2010Via: BBC: Two US men have been charged over the murder of two Afghans after a traffic accident in Kabul last May. Justin Cannon, 27, and Chris Drotleff, 29, worked for a subsidiary of security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater. The men were sacked after the incident for failing to comply with the terms […]
BLACKWATER CHARGES DISMISSED
January 1st, 2010Via: Reuters: Iraq expressed its disappointment on Friday with a U.S. federal court ruling that threw out all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of gunning down Iraqi civilians in 2007. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the five men had committed a “serious crime” in the September 2007 shooting in Baghdad, which strained […]
Drug Money Saved Banks During Global Drisis, Claims UN Advisor
December 14th, 2009Via: Guardian: Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were […]
