Tag: Erik Prince
Erik Prince, the failson face of privatized war
If the face long associated with modern mercenaries were more successful at his business, we might already live in a much more dystopian world.
Ex-Blackwater CEO Erik Prince makes a comeback under Trump selling mercenary...
House Democrats are accusing Prince of lying to Congress during his November 2017 testimony before the Committee, when he described a meeting in the Seychelles with a Russian banker before Donald Trump’s inauguration as a chance encounter.
Blackwater announces return as former mercenary found guilty of murder
Blackwater announced their return in a full-page ad in the January/February print issue of the gun and hunting magazine “Recoil.”
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Another oil spill, fracking fuels climate change, Mueller investigates Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and more.
Blackwater and the Corporate Mercenaries who’ve changed the rules of war
No matter what they call themselves, they are soldiers of fortune and now quietly operate around the world.
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The truth behind “self-made” billionaires
Billionaires are not made by rugged individuals. They’re made by policy failures. And a system that rewards wealth over work.
Why are wild horses brutally uprooted from public lands while private livestock can stay?
The Bureau of Land Management is misleading the American people about the nation’s wild horses and burros.
‘People power has won the day’: Manchin dirty deal defeated
"Manchin's dirty deal went down in flames today because Indigenous and frontline communities raised their voices."
Burning books (or rather book companies)
Think of this as the modern capitalist version of burning books, though as with those fossil-fuel companies, it is, in reality, more like burning the future.
MAGA, Tea Party’s steroidal cousin, will outlast Trump – but only by escaping primitive...
Trump finale emerges as the perfect lesson that Pride (still) Goeth Before the Fall, exposing the dangers of not knowing who you are, what you can and can't do.