Jeremy Scahill: Inside Erik Prince’s United Arab Emirates Mercenary Army Jeremy Scahill: Inside Erik Prince’s United Arab Emirates Mercenary Army
Why is Blackwater founder Erik Prince building a mercenary army for the United Arab Emirates? The contracted guns will be much less involved in maintaining the peace than they...
May 18, 2011 / Democracy Now!
The Middle East Speech That Obama Ought to Give The Middle East Speech That Obama Ought to Give
Obama's Middle East policy has fallen apart. It's not too late to save it.
May 18, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
Jeremy Scahill: Is Blackwater’s Erik Prince Starting a Proxy War Against Iran? Jeremy Scahill: Is Blackwater’s Erik Prince Starting a Proxy War Against Iran?
Blackwater's Erik Prince is building an army of mercenaries for the United Arab Emirates. One that includes no Muslims. What is going on here?
May 17, 2011 / Press Room
Le Scandale DSK Le Scandale DSK
Reeling in the wake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest on rape charges, the French public has started to ask some soul-searching questions.
May 17, 2011 / Agnès Catherine Poirier
Jeremy Scahill: Is Blackwater’s Erik Prince Starting a Proxy War Against Iran? Jeremy Scahill: Is Blackwater’s Erik Prince Starting a Proxy War Against Iran?
Blackwater's Erik Prince is building an army of mercenaries for the United Arab Emirates. One that includes no Muslims. What is going on here?
May 17, 2011 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing? Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?
How the President and the Pentagon prop up both Middle Eastern despots and American arms dealers.
May 17, 2011 / Nick Turse
US-Taliban Talks in Qatar, Germany US-Taliban Talks in Qatar, Germany
Underway for months, the talks are aimed at starting what will be a long process toward a political settlement of the war.
May 17, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
Erik Prince, You’re No Indiana Jones Erik Prince, You’re No Indiana Jones
Blackwater's infamous founder is building a mercenary army in the United Arab Emirates.
May 16, 2011 / Jeremy Scahill
Warrior Pundits and War Pornographers Warrior Pundits and War Pornographers
What is it about being embedded with the military that turns normally thoughtful journalists into war boosters?
May 16, 2011 / Peter Van Buren
The Taliban Is Not Al Qaeda The Taliban Is Not Al Qaeda
And other important observations from a German resident of Kandahar.
May 16, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss