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Tuesday March 25, 2008 · 8:27 PM PDT

2008/03/25 · 20:27

This past week marked the 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq and it also marked another historic event. The Winter Soldier testimonies by Iraq War Veterans. An event which drew over 250 Iraq War vets who with great courage told their stories. Yet

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Saturday February 23, 2008 · 8:13 PM PST

2008/02/23 · 20:13

Action Alert!
Support Needed For
Limitations on Private Military Contractors Act

Rep. Julie Hamos has introduced a bill into the Illinois legislation that establishes as public policy that private military contractors should not receive state funding or support in Illinois. The bill sets 3 important limitations on their function and use:

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Friday September 21, 2007 · 9:11 PM PDT

2007/09/21 · 21:11

The Associated Press just released a story from Baghdad saying:

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S. designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

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Do you think these latest investigations of Blackwater will ever be completed or disappear like the others?

37 votes Vote Now!

Do you think these latest investigations of Blackwater will ever be completed or disappear like the others?

Yes

2 votes

They won't make any difference

5 votes

They will continue to operate just as before

28 votes

Blackwater USA May Expand Into Thailand

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Tuesday September 11, 2007 · 7:46 PM PDT

2007/09/11 · 19:46

Sources in Thailand and those close to Blackwater executives report that Blackwater USA is in negotiations with the government of Thailand. The purpose of the talks is reportedly to open a training center in the country. Having lost their attempt last year to open a jungle training facility in the Philippines, it appears that Blackwater has now turned its sights on Thailand.

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Sunday August 12, 2007 · 8:18 PM PDT

2007/08/12 · 20:18

It was a hot dry afternoon in the rolling pastorial hills of northwest Illinois. Beneath the blue sky and bright sun a group of 80 citizens stood in the heat on Skunk Hallow Road to voice their outrage that Blackwater USA, the most powerful mercenary army in the U.S., opened a new training facility here.

For the first time in the history of the United States a group of unarmed citizens stood at the gates of a private military firm (private army base) to oppose the privatization of the American military and to oppose war profiteers.

In April Blackwater USA opened

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Do you think Blackwater USA and other military firms pose a threat to our democracy?

156 votes Vote Now!

Do you think Blackwater USA and other military firms pose a threat to our democracy?

Yes

111 votes

9 votes

What democracy?

34 votes

They help support democracy here and around the globe.

2 votes

Blackwater Still Gets Away With Murder For Christmas

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Thursday July 26, 2007 · 5:07 PM PDT

2007/07/26 · 17:07

Imagine --- in the Green Zone of Baghdad on Christmas Eve. An off-duty Blackwater USA employee shoots 11 times at close range a bodyguard to Iraq Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi. His only consequence thus far is that Blackwater fired him and gave him a ticket home.

Another great article by award winning journalist Bill Sizemore, of the Virgian-Pilot, went unnoticed by mainstream media yesterday.

Virgian-Pilot

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Saturday June 30, 2007 · 10:01 AM PDT

2007/06/30 · 10:01

What if every time an American soldier was killed in Iraq or Afghanistan it was required by law or civility that the U.S. Senator from the soldier's home state had to....

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Tuesday June 19, 2007 · 10:12 PM PDT

2007/06/19 · 22:12

I'm not a republican now nor a democrat. I stand as an idependent. I am not what is so often referred to on this page as a "troll." I am just sick and tired of politicians making profits from killing. As far as I'm concerned they all have...

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Tuesday April 24, 2007 · 10:00 PM PDT

2007/04/24 · 22:00

It appears that Blakwater USA is not the "good neighbors" they claim to be nor are they good citizens. According to sources, that want to remain anonymous, who live in the vicinity of Blackwater USA's headquarters in North Carolina, "They (Blackwater) don't take "no" for an answer."

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Should troop withdrawal legislation include private security and private miliatary?

228 votes Vote Now!

Should troop withdrawal legislation include private security and private miliatary?

Yes

170 votes

14 votes

It depends

4 votes

Only if we send Cheney over with his rifle instead

40 votes

Lurking Beneath the Surface of Blackwater North

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Friday April 06, 2007 · 7:12 PM PDT

2007/04/06 · 19:12

The stillness of the tree lined Skunk Hallow Road in Jo Daviess County Illinois, twenty miles from the beautiful Palisades along the Mississippi River, will soon be shattered by gunfire. Not the gunfire of wild turkey hunters but the gunfire from a new training facility for the most powerful mercenary army in the world, ...

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Should there be laws regulating private armies?

82 votes Vote Now!

Should there be laws regulating private armies?

Yes and Democrats should be leading the way.

39 votes

Yes and citizens need to be in the lead on this

19 votes

Yes but it should be on the state level.

0 votes

Yes

16 votes

No, they should have the same rights as any other private business

3 votes

no, leave them alone they are helping in our war on terror

4 votes

no!

1 vote

Which Obama Are We To Believe

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Sunday March 11, 2007 · 8:45 PM PDT

2007/03/11 · 20:45

Money may not be the root of all evil but is it possible to get a candidate of the people in a capitalistic democracy? Take the ever popular Obama as a case in point.

Obama projects a populist persona to the public, but is the Harvard trained lawyer with over $100,000 invested in JP Morgan Chase (According to his financial disclosure form filed in May of 2006) the real Obama?

This is the same JP Morgan company that has donated over $50,000 to Obama

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