mercenaries

CORPORATE ARMIES AND BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION

Those of you following various blogs on this site or various interviews I've done over the years will be aware of the fact that I am greatly concerned about the growing encroachment of corporations upon our civil liberties and upon social and cultural functions normally fulfilled by the state or religion. Indeed, the U.S. Department of Defense has in past years issued a number of policy decisions allowing growing roles for privatized security "services." The older term for it would be "mercenaries." Now there is this significant story: Wall Street Banks Secretly Build The World’s … [Read more...]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, NEW DOD RULES FOR PRIVATE SECURITY FORCES

In case you missed it, the Department of Defense has promulgated new rules for private security services, effective, notably enough, the day after the tenth anniversary of 9/11: DoD Policy for Privatized DoD This document is some very artful bureaucratese on how the USA is, and is not, using "mercenaries" in its ever expanding "war on terror" (read, war to control Central Asian and Middle Eastern energy reserves). Consider only this choice jewel: "Comment: Opposition to the use of mercenaries in the U.S. Department of Defense " Response: The DoD does not use mercenaries. Article 47 of … [Read more...]