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14 Jun 2011, 9:34 am by Jamison Koehler
  But one game that will not be finding itself under our Christmas tree this December is a new game put out by 505 Games called “Blackwater. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 12:43 pm
York Finch General Hospital, 2001 SCC 23 (CanLII), [2001] 1 S.C.R. 647, 2001 SCC 23, at paras. 87-88, and Blackwater v. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 1:36 pm by Buce
  We might "privatize" (interesting choice of words) all our military functions by, say, deeding West Point over to Blackwater but we wouldn't be less "governed" thereby. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 9:39 am by Mike Scarcella
The suit (PDF) said the men were injured working for Blackwater, now called XE Services, in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 5:15 am by Chris Borgen
The discussion ranges over topics including the relationship of neoconservative ideology to private military contractor (PMC) impunity, the immunity claims of PMC’s, why JAGs should be given more authority over PMC’s, and Blackwater founder Erik Prince’s new venture raising a mercenary army for the United Arab Emirates, and other important and timely issues.The relationship of international law to PMC’s has been one of Laura’s areas of expertise for a number of… [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 6:35 am by Maureen Cosgrove
[JURIST] Four former security guards for Blackwater [JURIST news archive], now known as Xe Services [corporate website], on Monday filed a petition [text, PDF] challenging an appeals court ruling that reinstated a manslaughter case against them. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 1:10 pm by Mike Scarcella
Lawyers for four former Blackwater security guards are challenging an appeals court ruling that revived the government's manslaughter prosecution in Washington federal district court. [read post]
31 May 2011, 8:50 am by Nathan Koppel
  He is now a director at the security firm once known as Blackwater, which is now called Xe Services. [read post]
31 May 2011, 7:15 am by Jamison Koehler
She got me into some hot water a little less than a year ago when she entered the McLean home of Blackwater’s Erik Prince and then commented about it here. [read post]
26 May 2011, 9:40 am by Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal
Last week, we assisted in submitting comments on behalf of twenty organizations, including Friends of Blackwater, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Animal Welfare Institute, and the Wildlife Advocacy Project, on the Draft Voluntary Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines and the Draft Eagle Conservation Plan Guidance prepared by the U.S. [read post]
25 May 2011, 10:21 am by David Ingram
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is at least the third such attempt since a high-profile killing of Iraqi civilians by Blackwater security guards in September 2007. [read post]
25 May 2011, 9:22 am by Duprestars
Those arrested include people protesting US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Guantanamo, strip mining, home foreclosures, nuclear weapons, immigration policies, police brutality, mistreatment of hotel workers, budget cutbacks, Blackwater, the mistreatment of Bradley Manning, and right wing efforts to cut back collective bargaining. [read post]
23 May 2011, 3:57 pm by Lovechilde
We indirectly pay for Blackwater to lobby for – and support politicians who will demand – more use of contract workers in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
23 May 2011, 2:51 am by Jamison Koehler
According to the Associated Press, “a federal judge on Friday tossed out parts of a lawsuit filed by two former employees against the security company once known as Blackwater but is allowing key claims to proceed to trial. [read post]
17 May 2011, 5:03 pm by Clif Burns
On Sunday, the New York Times revealed that the UAE had hired Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, to provide certain training service in the Emirates. [read post]
7 May 2011, 10:16 am by Tom Smith
One was happily retired but the other missed his buddies and so had signed on with Blackwater and was back in Iraq where his friends were. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 12:08 pm by LindaMBeale
   (And of course, Big Business will likely use its money to support those politicians who talk about cutting government spending but mean only cutting spending for programs that form part of the social net for vulnerable citizens, not cutting spending on lucrative military contracts or other lucrative federal spending programs that create instant billionaires, like Eric Prince and his Blackwater security contracts in Iraq). [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 3:02 pm by Brian Baldrate
Circuit reinstated the manslaughter charges of four former Blackwater security guards accused of killing 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Nissour Square back in 2007. [read post]