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RT
April 24, 2018
There were also reports of Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater USA, a private mercenary firm, being lobbied by Gulf Arab states to recruit a similar force for ... That begs the question of Erik Prince and his mercenaries being deployed to replace regular American forces, with the Gulf Arab regimes bankrollingÃâà...
The Real News Network
April 21, 2018
You have Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, who are both bogged down in a war in Yemen and can't win that war, and the Emirates have already contracted Erik Prince. In fact, he helped put together an 800-member mercenary force that has been fighting in Yemen unsuccessfully, and includes mercenariesÃâà...
Observer
April 5, 2018
Emerging from the murky backchannels of the United Arab Emirates, paramilitary emperor Erik Prince is expanding his kingdom under President Donald ... are expected to push hawkish military strategies overseas—presents Prince with new opportunities to architect mercenary warfare in Afghanistan.
LobeLog
April 5, 2018
So, it should come as no surprise then that the scandal has been linked to Erik Prince, co-founder of Blackwater and the Energizer Bunny of the world of private .... If he can't directly influence a government with his mercenary forces, he will gladly do so indirectly, with his new disinformation mercenaries.
The Daily Dot
April 2, 2018
The year before he started the project, in 2011, Prince had been fined $42 million for training mercenary troops in Jordan. And before officially agreeing to build the private army, Prince had also put together a band of South African mercenaries to fight Somali pirates with the blessing of the UAE. A list ofÃâà...
Charleston Post Courier
March 24, 2018
Most presidents initially stock their administrations with cronies and ideological purists. Then, after suffering inevitable setbacks, they usher them out in favor of less ideological and more competent professionals. President Donald Trump is doing it in reverse. He is jettisoning anyone who could serve as aÃâà...
WTRF
March 21, 2018
Company filings show that Trump-affiliated data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica has a link to a Chinese security and logistics company run by Erik Prince, the former mercenary who founded private military company Blackwater. British corporate records show that Alexander Nix, the suspended chiefÃâà...
EurasiaNet
March 21, 2018
A Thrush 510G crop dusting aircraft, a weaponized version of which was part of negotiations between American mercenary Erik Prince and the ... An American mercenary attempted to sell modified crop duster aircraft to Azerbaijan's military, contravening United States laws on defense exports, a newÃâà...
Democracy Now!
March 15, 2018
co-founder of The Intercept. He is host of the weekly podcast Intercepted. He is the author of The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program. He's also the author of the best-selling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army and Dirty Wars:Ãâà...
POLITICO Magazine
March 10, 2018
The mercenary, Erik Prince of Blackwater fame, is believed to have been Donald Trump's proxy. And the Russian, Kirill Dmitriev, is thought to have stood in for Vladimir Putin. Now, before you drop the needle onto your vinyl copy of Lalo Schifrin's “Mission: Impossible Theme,” keep in mind that Nader onceÃâà...
Observer
March 9, 2018
A former intern for Rohrabacher, Prince revolutionized mercenary warfare through his private security contract firm Blackwater, which rebranded as Academi in 2011. Both figures are under intense scrutiny for their ties to Moscow and have been called before intelligence committees investigating collusionÃâà...
GQ Magazine
March 8, 2018
... Prince's role as a representative for the Trump administration is disconcerting, given his reputation as a war profiteer and anti-Muslim crusader. Prince is the founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater (famous for massacring unarmed civilians in Baghdad), a supporter of a privatized and for-profit military,Ãâà...
Vox
March 8, 2018
Erik Prince is the founder of Blackwater, the private security / mercenary company that scored big contracts from George W. Bush's administration (and some of whose employees were accused of killing Iraqi civilians). Prince has since sold Blackwater (which renamed itself) and gone out in search of newÃâà...
International Policy Digest
March 6, 2018
... UAE was negotiating a deal with Erik Prince, the founder of since-defunct controversial private security firm Blackwater. The $529 million contract with Mr. Prince was to create a mercenary force populated by Africans and Latin Americans that would “conduct special operations missions inside and outsideÃâà...
LobeLog
March 6, 2018
... negotiating a deal with Erik Prince, the founder of since-defunct controversial private security firm Blackwater. The $529 million contract with Prince was to create a mercenary force populated by Africans and Latin Americans that would “conduct special operations missions inside and outside the country,Ãâà...
Vanity Fair
February 26, 2018
Another eruption involved an op-ed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, which was alternately lambasted as a “pro-mercenary,” “advertorial,” and a “sales pitch for more mercenaries.” On the anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration, Bennet devoted the entire editorial page to letters from TrumpÃâà...
VICE News
February 21, 2018
The notion that an oligarch with a catering empire could be running clandestine international networks of mercenaries and internet trolls may sound absurd, but it largely fits the leadership style of Russian President Vladimir Putin, an ex-KGB lieutenant colonel who treats many national priorities as if theyÃâà...
Newsweek
November 30, 2017
Trump's Mercenary Donor Erik Prince Pitches 'Humane' Private Army To Stop Libya Migrants. By Jack Moore On 11/30/17 at 11:49 AM. Erik Prince Blackwater USA Chief Executive Erik Prince testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on security contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan on CapitolÃâà...
The Independent
October 9, 2017
Human rights groups highlighted reports of torture and abuse linked to various mercenaries. The Associated Press said Mr Prince received millions of dollars worth of government contracts. Yet in 2007, several Blackwater employees were involved in the shooting deaths of 14 civilians in Baghdad.
POLITICO Magazine
August 31, 2017
For the past year, Erik Prince has been peddling an idea that should alarm anyone who has followed his career: We should replace U.S. troops in Afghanistan with mercenaries, preferably his. For those who do not know Prince, he was a founder of Blackwater International, the private military contractor thatÃâà...
CBS News
August 8, 2017
The Trump administration is, however, considering a plan proposed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince to privatize a large portion of the U.S. effort in Afghanistan. Prince's ... "The way the United Nations defines mercenaries, by being attached to the Afghan army, they would not be mercenaries," Prince said.
The Intercept
December 31, 1999
Before He Was FBI Director, Chris Wray Supervised an Investigation That Found Erik Prince Likely Broke U.S. Law .... White House meetings, cable news interviews, and op-eds in major publications — to have the war in Afghanistan privatized by mercenary forces and effectively placed under his control.
Center For American Progress
December 31, 1999
Take Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide—now known as Academi—and his sister, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who both are ... is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and other federal agencies for attempting to broker mercenary deals with foreign countries.
Common Dreams
December 31, 1999
Blackwater founder Erik Prince, whose former mercenary firm was behind the massacre of civilians in Iraq, has been approached about helping to forge an Arab military force to replace the U.S. presence in Syria, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
... Erik Prince was allegedly contacted by Arab officials who sought to form a military force in Syria. Prince reportedly said that he was waiting for Trump's decision on the matter. The Blackwater mercenary army was founded in 1997. In September 2007 the private company's employees shot 17 Iraqi civiliansÃâà...
