Thursday, February 13, 2025

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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Judge orders health agencies to restore medical webpages removed by Trump administration

A federal court ruling forces the CDC, FDA, and HHS to reinstate vital public health resources that were taken down under Trump’s executive order targeting gender-related medical information.

Shadow government: How Trump’s executive order hands Musk control of the US government

An investigation into how a new executive order has enabled an unelected billionaire to oversee federal hiring, dismantle public agencies, and consolidate unchecked power over American democracy.

Support oppositional press—not media owned by Fascist collaborators

In order to separate truth from lies, the anti-Trump opposition should make sure to include a healthy amount of oppositional press in our media diets, and to take reporting from non-oppositional press with a grain of salt.

Tesla paid zero federal income tax in 2024 while GOP pushes more corporate tax...

Musk’s trillion-dollar company paid nothing in federal taxes while working Americans foot the bill.

In stunningly bright colors

Can art offer us a vision of our world, for the better or sometimes distinctly the worse, that brings it into a kind of cohesion we often don’t experience in our actual lives?