Erik Prince Calls for U.S. to Colonize Africa and Latin America
What could possibly go wrong? Jon Schwarz February 10 2024, 7:00 a.m. Erik Prince speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon […]
Military Veterans to Legal Experts Condemn Trump’s Pardoning of Blackwater War Criminals
BY BRIAN TRAUTMAN The U.S.-led war on Iraq, which formally began in March 2003 but essentially started more than a decade earlier with frequent aerial bombing and oppressive economic sanctions, […]
‘Cheaper than water’: Iraqis angry but unsurprised over Blackwater pardons
An Iraqi man rides a bicycle passing by a remains of a car, burnt after Blackwater guards escorting US embassy officials opened fire in Baghdad on September 16, 2007. (File/AFP) […]
Erik Prince’s wars – Blackwater is back
The Blackwater founder wants to bring back his company’s glory days — and he’s campaigning for Donald Trump’s help to do it. But he’s haunted by past failures and is […]
Was Blackwater behind the collapse of Afghan peace talks?
SYED FAZL-E-HAIDER Published 14.11.2019 Pakistan’s diplomatic push to bring the Afghan peace process back on track has paved the way for the resumption of peace talks between the U.S and […]
Erik Prince company to build training centre in China’s Xinjiang
This content was published on February 2, 2019 BEIJING (Reuters) – Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group (FSG), co-founded by former U.S. military services contractor Erik Prince, has signed a deal […]
Blackwater founder bids again for privatised Afghan war
October 11, 2018 Ali M Latifi Blackwater founder bids again for privatised Afghan war Prince claims he can change the course of America’s longest-running war within six months [Getty] […]
Exclusive: Blackwater founder’s plan to privatise America’s $76bn, 17-year war in Afghanistan
Donald Trump is expected to ask European countries at this week’s Nato summit, one of the most crucial and contentious in the history of the alliance, to step up and […]
I spent my career in the British Army and I know the dangers of privatising the battlefield
I spent my career in the British Army and I know the dangers of privatising the battlefield The expansion of the roles taken on by private sector security companies in […]
Mapping Erik Prince’s Private Mercenary Empire
Published May 8th, 2018 – 08:37 GMT via SyndiGate.info Erik Prince (Rami Khoury/Al Bawaba) Erik Prince is the modern architect of private military firms His latest venture is in training security personnel in China But he’s been all over the world, outsourcing militaries to cheap labor markets Al Bawaba has […]
UAE planned to invade Qatar with Blackwater-linked mercenaries, says former Qatar official
The New Arab Date of publication: 13 October, 2017 Qatar’s former deputy prime minister has accused the United Arab Emirates of plotting to invade Doha with an army of […]
The rule of law triumphs, sort of, in the U.S.
by Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon Summary The conviction in a Washington court Wednesday of four former Blackwater Worldwide security guards for their roles in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead and 17 other wounded is a small, symbolic and perhaps significant act […]
Has Blackwater been deployed to Ukraine? Notorious U.S. mercenaries ‘seen on the streets of flashpoint city’ as Russia claims 300 hired guns have arrived in country
Unidentified armed men seen on the streets of Donetsk in east Ukraine Russian diplomat claims 300 mercenaries had arrived in Kiev this week Mercenaries in the region could give Putin […]
Syria Uprising: Mossad, Blackwater And CIA ‘Led Operations In Homs’
MARCH 7, 2013 Source: Huffington Post UK / CIA, Mossad and Blackwater agents are involved in military violence in the Homs district, an Arab news agency exclusively reports. According to Al-Manar, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militant group and political party, a coordination office with agents from the […]
Bern (Switzerland) plans to ban mercenary companies
The Swiss government says it aims to ban any companies offering mercenary services in conflict areas, in a bid to preserve Switzerland’s cherished neutrality and ensure it respects international law. […]