Blackwater

The inimitable Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies that is. Way more Phyllis than me (which is a very good thing!). Here is our take, including policy, political and movement [...]

Those who died in Iraq from November 4 to 10: Pvt Adam Muller  21  Underhill VT Sgt Derek Stenroos  24  North Pole AK Sgt John Linde  30  New York NY Sgt Carletta Davis  34  Anchorage AK PO Kevin [...]

The makers of this movie testified before Congress on the waste of taxpayer money. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cJlJudDtVE&rel=1]

In 1961, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 gave a face to war profiteering with the character Milo – a mess officer during WWII. Milo secretly replaces the CO2 cartridges in the emergency life vests with [...]

The issue of Iraq is not one that is only debated in our halls of government. Corporate interests have a heavy say in the war through private contracts vetted by the U.S. military. A recently Los [...]