The Privatization of War: Scahill reports 121,000 contractors in Afghanistantan

The Privatization of War: Scahill reports 121,000 contractors in Afghanistantan - In an interview with Riz Khan on December 21st, Jeremy Scahill reports that the Obama administration has surpassed the Bush era’s privatization of war, having nearly doubled the number of security contractors in Afghanistan over the past several months. Amongst the contracting firms who remain in Afghanistan is Blackwater (now operating under the name XE) - a firm that Scahill describes as “one of the most powerful private actors in the so called War on Terror.”

The So-Called “Concessions” of the Settlement Freeze More articles detailing police brutality and the settler’s struggle against draconian government policy, this past week:

• Haaretz exclusive: Police-settler clashes caught on film


• Settlers reject Netanyahu plea to respect settlement freeze


• Youth protesting settlement freeze block Jerusalem entrance


• Settlers: We’ll prevent inspectors from enforcing construction freeze


• Barak: Israeli settlement freeze is unprecedented peace move


• Lieberman: Fight against settlement freeze is ‘legitimate’


• More than 10,000 demonstrators rally against settlement freeze


• State: Implementation of settlement freeze couldn’t have waited


• High Court blasts government for not compensating settlers for freeze


• Four arrested as rightists continue to fight settlement freeze


• Leaked memo details tactics to enforce settlement freeze