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Bleeding Cool News
April 1, 2018
This makes for a cathartic climax to the past few issues, which have found Aric getting beaten and humiliated by mercenaries hired by his alleged allies. The revelation of why Aric left Earth is a gut-wrenching truth unto itself, and it explains Aric's reticence to use the Manowar armor. It all works very well.
CBR
March 30, 2018
For the first several years of his existence, Deadpool wasn't really more than an extra-talkative X-Force villain. When Deadpool was created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza in 1991's New Mutants #98, he was a cold-hearted mercenary who'd been hired by a mysterious man named Tolliver to kill Cable.
Mintpress News
March 30, 2018
In a 2016 report, the campaign group War on Want describes how the UK became the world centre for this mercenary industry. You might know .... As we've been investigating the secret donation which paid for the DUP Brexit campaign, we keep coming across this web of connections. Priti Patel worked forÃâà...
Business Day
March 28, 2018
Rather, it's because the novel's religious vision is terrifying, and the casting required to capture it probably impossible. Blood Meridian tells the story of a protagonist known only as "The kid". He joins John Joel Glanton's real-life gang of American mercenaries circa 1849-50. Although hired by the MexicanÃâà...
AltChar
March 28, 2018
The story apparently begins when you, a mercenary Battlemech pilot and a commander, are hired by a noblewoman whose ''throne'' has been taken over by a ''tyrant''. It is hinted by the narrator in the trailer that you will not be obliged to take her side and instead can make a choice, which likely leads to anÃâà...
Open Democracy
March 28, 2018
In a 2016 report, the campaign group War on Want describes how the UK became the world centre for this mercenary industry. You might know .... As we've been investigating the secret donation which paid for the DUP Brexit campaign, we keep coming across this web of connections. Priti Patel worked forÃâà...
The Outline
March 28, 2018
“You get paid for that but you don't get a ton of money. Where you get money is then going to the minister and introducing the minister to a company and then making deals.” “You can be like a colonial master in the country,” he continued. “It felt very much like a privatised colonising operation. You would goÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 23, 2018
Kogan presented the app as a tool that would be used for academic research — but the work was paid for by Cambridge Analytica. Facebook users were not informed that their data (and that of their friends) would be deployed by a political firm hired by the Trump campaign for psychographic profiling in theÃâà...
The Guardian
March 23, 2018
She has worked extensively for the firm, pitching business to clients in countries that have a history of exploitation by western political mercenaries, including .... One slide showed how the company ensured that voters searching the words “Trump Iraq War” would encounter paid-for search results that wereÃâà...
The Times Telegram
March 23, 2018
According to the synopsis about her book on the Macmillian website, Bolkovac was hired by DynCorp International, a private military contractor, to work ... Bolkovac began to learn about “officers involved in human trafficking and forced prostitution and their connections to private mercenary contractors, theÃâà...
EurasiaNet
March 21, 2018
His former company Blackwater was hired by the Pentagon to train Azerbaijani naval special forces in 2004. “Prince's offer to sell the aircraft was part of a broader proposal to Azerbaijan for security and logistical services. That effort was known internally at FSG as 'Project Zulu,'” The Intercept reported.
The Real News Network
March 21, 2018
It's, basically, you have to think of these people as mercenaries, as in mercenaries in the old days that would go in and take over a country by force of arms. ... amounts of money to do the research, and they gifted that to the Trump administration as part of this campaign effort that the Mercers paid for. So thatÃâà...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
March 20, 2018
... for future attacks after a massive battle played out in the country's east that ended with up to 300 Russian mercenaries killed by US artillery and airpower. ... The Pentagon said the pro-Syrian forces, including many Russians hired by private military contractors, made an “unprovoked attack” on theirÃâà...
The Intercept
March 12, 2018
TigerSwan, the mercenary security firm that worked to suppress the NoDAPL movement, is promoting its disaster response efforts in Houston and Puerto ... TigerSwan operatives hired by the pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners used militaristic tactics to disrupt the massive opposition to the project,Ãâà...
The Conversation CA
March 11, 2018
The kid joins John Joel Glanton's real-life gang of American mercenaries circa 1849-50. Although hired by the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua to combat the Apaches and Comanches with whom they struggled over territory, the notorious gang soon began killing and collecting “receipts” — that is,Ãâà...
SPIEGEL ONLINE
March 2, 2018
Relations between the Russian mercenaries in Syria -- it is thought there are more than 2,000 of them -- and the government in Moscow have been tense for some time. The fighters claim they are being used as cannon fodder, are being kept quiet and are poorly paid. For them to now accuse the Kremlin ofÃâà...
Euro Weekly News
March 1, 2018
He and three others suspected of carrying out the atrocities are thought to have been hired by a drugs gang. It comes after French authorities issued a European Arrest Warrant for the 29-year-old, leading National Police investigators to swoop on a Marbella property. Although not at home, he was trackedÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 23, 2018
A businessman known as “Putin's chef” spoke with top officials in Damascus and Moscow before Russian mercenaries he is believed to control launched a disastrous attack on US and ... Presidential affairs minister Mansour Fadlallah Azzam reportedly promised Mr Prigozhin would be paid for his efforts.
CNN
February 23, 2018
Did a Russian oligarch get a green light from Moscow for a mercenary attack on the United States and allied forces in Syria? That's the question being asked after Yevgeny Prigozhin -- an associate of Vladimir Putin's who was in charge of the mercenaries -- reportedly was "in close touch" before the attackÃâà...
The Verge
February 21, 2018
The novel follows an episode in a war between the Culture and the Idiran Empire, in which a shapeshifting mercenary named Horza is hired by the Idirans to track down a Culture artificial intelligence that was shot down and hiding on a forbidden world. Should the series go forward and be successful withÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
February 21, 2018
"Five million rubles are paid for a dead man," says Natalya Zhukova from the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, in Nizhny Novgorod. The mother of a 30-year-old mercenary killed in Syria mentioned a sum of about 70,000 euros to Zhukova. In that case, the woman was also able to claim her son's body inÃâà...
Business Day
February 13, 2018
More than 200 mercenaries, mostly Russians fighting on behalf of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, died in a failed attack on a base and refinery held by US ... the US military company now called Academi — was hired by Assad or his allies to guard Syrian energy facilities in exchange for oil concessions.
The New Times
February 2, 2018
The report says that under a false identity, the famous French mercenary dispatched men for certain missions to Rwanda during the Genocide, and these services were paid for by the genocidal regime through the French bank BNP Paribas. The same bank has been implicated in several reports as havingÃâà...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
February 1, 2018
The following is an excerpt from Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers, and Power by Tim Maurer, co-director of the Cyber Policy Initiative at the .... A hacker in a Colombian prison boasted in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek that he had been hired by political campaigns in various LatinÃâà...
nazret.com
December 31, 1999
The group in real conventional military standard could be categorized as a private army resembling a mercenary group that is hired by war lords to protect ... Agazi mercenaries went to the town of Moyale and indiscriminately fired on civilians killing and wounding untold numbers and making 50 thousandÃâà...
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
Gen. in charge of the US-led fight against ISIS confirmed that around 300 Russian mercenaries were killed in a massive battle with US forces on February 7, ... The Pentagon said the pro-Syrian forces, including many Russians hired by private military contractors, made an "unprovoked attack" on theirÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
According to one commander, a Russian officer "coordinates the air cover" with mercenary troops on the ground. ... The men were hired by a private military contracting firm called ChVK Vagner, which has been sending Russians to fight in Syria since 2015. RFE/RL has ... "They are paid for this.... But it isÃâà...
