U.S. military probes Blackwater Kabul killing
By Peter Graff / Reuters KABUL - The U.S. military is investigating a shooting incident in which four contractors from the re-named firm formerly called Blackwater are accused of killing an Afghan man after a traffic accident, a spokesman said on Sunday. The military said it had asked the firm ...
Did Blackwater Mercs Try to Smuggle Weapons Used in Massacre Out of Iraq? ...by Jeremy Scahill
A government informant says Blackwater operatives wanted to 'get rid of' the guns used at Nisour Square 'before an investigation ensued.'Rebel Reports This is a pretty explosive development in the investigation into Blackwater’s Nisour Square massacre that killed 17 Iraqis and wounded more than 20 others on September 16, 2007: ...
Informants say Blackwater guards tried to unload arms
By Bill Sizemore / Viriginian-Pilot Shortly after a 2007 shooting incident in a Baghdad traffic square that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead, Blackwater contractors allegedly transferred a number of machine guns to another contractor who is now charged with trying to smuggle them out of Iraq. The Blackwater contractors wanted ...
Blackwater, now Xe, era ends in Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 7 (UPI) -- The era of Blackwater Worldwide, now called Xe, providing security to U.S. personnel in Iraq is over as another firm took over duties in Baghdad. Triple Canopy, of Herndon, Va., picked up the security contract after the U.S. State Department did not renew Xe's contract ...
Iraqi victims outraged at slow Blackwater exit
By Brian Murphy / Associated Press BAGHDAD – Some Iraqis wounded in the September 2007 shootout by guards for the former Blackwater Worldwide security firm expressed anger and dismay Tuesday after reports that the company will continue work in Iraq longer than previously thought. Hussein Jabir, a Baghdad lawyer hit ...
Iraqi Translators Fear Retribution
By Spencer Ackerman / Washington Independent In the United States, it would be a mundane tax form, with standard provisions for cataloging an employee’s tax obligations. Full name. Citizen ID number. Address. Phone. Specifications about any children. But Form D/4a from the Iraqi Ministry of Finance is sending waves of ...
Accountability ...by Gold Star Mother Amy Branham
Today I write as an American -- an American who is a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend. I am the daughter of a Vietnam Vet and the mother of a dead soldier. I am the mother-in-law of a soldier serving active duty in Iraq. I am a ...
Looking For the Truth? ...by Gold Star Dad, John Scripsick
Norman Transcript My son died in Iraq one year ago and it has made me study the reasons we went to war, as any parent would do looking into the loss of their child. George W. Bush is coming to Oklahoma City today to raise money for John McCain. I ...
Iraq Hints at Delay in U.S. Security Deal
By Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times BAGHDAD — Declaring that there will not be “another colonization of Iraq,” Iraq’s foreign minister raised the possibility on Wednesday that a full security agreement with the United States might not be reached this year, and that if one was, it would ...
Aguirre finds fault in permits for facility
Sanders halts work at Blackwater site By Tanya Mannes / San Diego Union-Tribune OTAY MESA – Mayor Jerry Sanders yesterday ordered work to stop on Blackwater Worldwide's proposed military training facility in Otay Mesa. The mayor was prompted by a legal opinion issued earlier in the afternoon by San Diego ...
How city permits obtained at issue By Tanya Mannes / San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders wants to know whether Blackwater Worldwide misrepresented itself when it sought city permits to set up an indoor military training facility in Otay Mesa. Blackwater has leased an industrial building near Brown ...
Peace-activist mother brings her message to San Marcos
By Gideon Marcus / Coast News SAN MARCOS — Peace activist Cindy Sheehan visited Cal State San Marcos to speak on her experiences, first as an anti-war movement leader, and more recently, as a congressional candidate, on April 17. It was her first visit to San Diego in two years. ...
Five Years On, Fallujah in Tatters
By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* / IPS FALLUJAH - Fallujah remains a crippled city years after the November 2004 U.S.-led assault. Unemployment, and lack of medical care and safe drinking water in the city 60 km west of Baghdad remain a continuous problem. Freedom of movement is still curtailed. ...
40 and 4: April 04, 2008 ...by Cindy Sheehan
Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence April 04, 1967 Martin Luther King, Jr, delivered his brilliant speech: Beyond Vietnam at ...
Protest draws doves, hawks and one rooster
By Joseph Marks / Grand Forks Herald GRAND FORKS, ND -- Iraq war protesters filed out of the UND Memorial Union Loading Dock to the sound of hip-hop music Thursday, chanting “support the troops; bring them home,” and carrying signs that read “War is not a solution,” and “Blackwater (a ...
Potrero is trying to put rift behind it
Community looking beyond Blackwater By Anne Krueger / San Diego Union-Tribune For more than a year, Blackwater Worldwide's proposal for a military and law enforcement training camp tore apart the tiny East County community of Potrero. Since Blackwater officials announced last week that they are dropping plans for the facility, ...
Security contractor Blackwater ends bid for Calif. training site
By Allison Hoffman / Associated Press SAN DIEGO, CA -- Military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide has pulled its plans to build a training facility in a remote area about 45 miles east of San Diego. Company project manager Brian Bonfiglio said in a letter submitted Friday to the San Diego ...
Blackwater pulls application for Potrero training center
By Anne Krueger / San Diego Union-Tribune Blackwater Worldwide officials have announced they are pulling their application to build a training center on an 824-acre site in the East County community of Potrero. The North Carolina-based company dropped off a letter to the county planning department today notifying officials of ...
Veteran calls for end to Iraq War
By Michael Yoder / Lancaster Intelligencer Journal Paul Abernathy has seen firsthand the horrors of the war in Iraq, and he's devoted his life to seeing the war come to an end. "This war must end, and it must be ended at a local level," the 28-year-old Pittsburgh native and ...
2005 Use of Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions
By James Risen / New York Times WASHINGTON — The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel. Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance the American ...
Under Siege, Blackwater Takes On Air of Bunker
By Paul von Zielbauer and James Glanz / New York Times BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 — The Blackwater USA compound here is a fortress within a fortress. Surrounded by a 25-foot-high wall of concrete topped by a chain-link fence and razor wire, the compound sits deep inside the heavily defended Green ...
U.S. cannot account for billion-dollar Iraq contract
By David Morgan / Reuters WASHINGTON - The State Department does not know specifically what it received for a billion-dollar contract with security firm DynCorp International to provide training services for Iraqi police, a U.S. watchdog agency said on Tuesday. The Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction ...
Iraq Demands Expulsion Of Contractor Blackwater, Compensation for Killings
By Amit R. Paley / Washington Post BAGHDAD, Oct. 14 -- The Iraqi government has demanded that Blackwater Worldwide, the private security firm that guards top U.S. diplomats in Iraq, be expelled from the country within six months and pay $8 million in compensation to the family of every civilian ...
A month after killings Iraq insists Blackwater quit
By Sabah Jerges / AFP BAGHDAD - Iraq insisted on Monday that US private security firm Blackwater and "other companies who commit crimes" leave Iraq after its guards opened fire in Baghdad a month ago killing up to 17 civilians. "From the beginning, the government wanted to replace this company ...
Matthew 7:3 (Look it up) ...by Cindy Sheehan
It is truly touching the way First Lady Laura Bush cares about the people of Burma and is using her officiousness (oops...I think that may be the wrong word...or is it?) to bring attention to the admittedly horrible situation there. There are very few people in the world that would ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
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Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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