DoomsdaysCW<p>ICYMI - 2010: From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyNow</span></a></p><p>The Nation: Docs Reveals <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a>-Linked Companies Provided Intel &amp; Security to Multinationals Like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Monsanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monsanto</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chevron</span></a></p><p>September 16, 2010</p><p>“Blackwater’s Black Ops” — that’s the title of an explosive new article in The Nation magazine that reveals how entities closely linked with the private security firm Blackwater have provided <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> services to a range of powerful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> over the past several years. The companies include <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Monsanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monsanto</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chevron</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeutscheBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeutscheBank</span></a> and others. Blackwater has also provided intelligence and training services to foreign governments, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jordan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jordan</span></a>, the Canadian military and the Dutch police. We speak with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. [includes rush transcript]</p><p>"AMY GOODMAN: “Blackwater’s Black Ops” — that’s the title of an explosive new article in The Nation magazine that reveals how entities closely linked with the private security firm Blackwater have provided security and intelligence services to a range of powerful corporations over the past several years. The companies include Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Disney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disney</span></a> Company, Deutsche Bank, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Barclays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Barclays</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RoyalCaribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalCaribbean</span></a> Cruise Lines.</p><p>"Blackwater has also provided intelligence and training services to foreign governments, including the Kingdom of Jordan, the Canadian military and the Dutch police. In 2007, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto worked with Blackwater when she returned to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pakistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pakistan</span></a> to campaign for the general elections. Bhutto was assassinated in December of 2007.</p><p>"The new revelations come from documents obtained by The Nation. They show that Blackwater’s work for corporations and government agencies was contracted using two companies: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TotalIntelligenceSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TotalIntelligenceSolutions</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TerrorismResearchCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TerrorismResearchCenter</span></a>. Both companies are owned by Blackwater’s owner and founder, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a>.</p><p>"Today also marks the third anniversary of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NisourSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NisourSquare</span></a> massacre, when Blackwater guards gunned down seventeen <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iraqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iraqi</span></a> civilians and wounded twenty in a fifteen-minute shooting spree in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Baghdad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Baghdad</span></a>.</p><p>"For more, we’re joined now from New York by investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. He’s a Puffin Foundation writing fellow at the Nation Institute. He’s a Democracy Now! correspondent and author of the book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MercenaryArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MercenaryArmy</span></a>. His new article in online at thenation.com."</p><p>Listen / Read more:<br><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/16/the_nation__docs_reveals_blackwater" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2010/9/16/the</span><span class="invisible">_nation__docs_reveals_blackwater</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateArmy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netherlands</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Xe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateArmies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AuthoritarianRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AuthoritarianRule</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a></p>