1. America\'s Tortured Past
(Newsletter)

... By Sherwood Ross    Sunday, 30 August 2009 Help White House Thwart Peace Movement The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it eas...

2. Piracy not of the High Seas
(Newsletter)

...sp; That seems to be the mother of all questions that usually ends up closing the conversation du jour: America's private armies. FULL STORY... Unmasking AIPAC Op_ed By William Cook    ...

3. Arroyo vows justice over massacre
(News/Top)

...l Manila and sent his wife, Genalyn Tiamzon-Mangudadatu, to file his nomination in Maguindanao on his behalf. Private armies Maguindanao is one of the most politically tense provinces in the count...

4. Rise of Mercenary Armies Menace World
(Opinions/Daily)

Help White House Thwart Peace Movement The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it easier for the White House to subvert domestic public opini

5. Prosecuting Bush And Cheney Could Prevent Future Crimes
(Opinions/op-ed)

...reign countries for torture, many years of detention without trial of people who are innocent, the use of massive private armies to help carry out Executive policies…suppression of the media far beyon...

6. Open Letter to the Government from an AWOL Soldier
(Editor/Letters)

... that corporations are profiting off of the death and destruction. We will never forget that Blackwater and other private armies, which are in themselves illegal, are running around the Middle East ki...

7. Piracy not of the High Seas
(Editor/Editorial)

...sp; That seems to be the mother of all questions that usually ends up closing the conversation du jour: America's private armies. FULL STORY... Are thugs who defend "American interests" les...

8. Israeli faces Colombia extradition
(Archived/News/Global)

Russia is to extradite a former Israeli commando to Colombia where he was convicted in absentia of training paramilitary groups allied to drug cartels, a Moscow court has said.

9. Iraq arrests foreign contractors
(Archived/News/Arab)

Iraqi soldiers have arrested more than 40 people - mostly foreigners, including two Americans - after a civilian was shot in central Baghdad.

10. Iraq law to close security loophole
(Archived/News/Arab)

The Iraqi cabinet has approved draft legislation that would end the immunity from prosecution of foreign security contractors working in the country.