Hardly a shock, although being a UK-based charity and newspaper they would say that - just teasing.
The charity report:http://www.waronwant.org/media/new-r...s-war%E2%80%99
The short article:http://www.theguardian.com/business/...y-says-charity
Hardly a shock, although being a UK-based charity and newspaper they would say that - just teasing.
The charity report:http://www.waronwant.org/media/new-r...s-war%E2%80%99
The short article:http://www.theguardian.com/business/...y-says-charity
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More of a follow-on to the above post, with a human focus appearing and one almost wonders if a PR person has been spinning hard:http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...ldier-for-hire
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A short article from The Atlantic and one passage says it all:Link:http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...-obama/495731/...the United States has developed a dependency on the private sector to wage war, a strategic vulnerability. Today, America can no longer go to war without the private sector.
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A curious report, if only as so much detail has been assembled and I wonder if those involved believed "all publicity helps". What was happening? This passage is a "taster":Link:https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...r-golan-dahlanTheir armed attack, described to BuzzFeed News by two of its participants and corroborated by drone surveillance footage, was the first operation in a startling for-profit venture. For months in war-torn Yemen, some of America’s most highly trained soldiers worked on a mercenary mission of murky legality to kill prominent clerics and Islamist political figures.Their target that night: Anssaf Ali Mayo, the local leader of the Islamist political party Al-Islah. The UAE considers Al-Islah to be the Yemeni branch of the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood, which the UAE calls a terrorist organization. Many experts insist that Al-Islah, one of whose members won the Nobel Peace Prize, is no terror group.
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https://pjmedia.com/homeland-securit...th-donor-help/The first known private military contracting and consulting firm catering just to jihadists issued a new online fundraising appeal for help in arming fighters while also noting this week that donors came through to build a training camp for jihadists in Syria.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...d-iraq-n947866How a Swedish professor helped rescue a grad student from ISIS-controlled Iraq
The student said he was amazed to see a group of six armed men in two four-wheel drive vehicles show up to take him and his family to safety.
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A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
21st century life is becoming a cyberpunk novel.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...n-chinese-bossPrince, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has made no secret about his ambitions in China. But since he became chairman of Frontier Services Group in Hong Kong five years ago, CITIC, his mainland benefactor, has slowly cemented its grip on the firm. Prince stepped down as FSG Chairman in December to make way for a new boss from the conglomerate, which has amassed a bigger stake than Prince’s 9 percent.
International Attention
Now FSG has drawn international attention for a signing ceremony to build a training center in far western China, where the Chinese government has detained as many as a million Uighur Muslims in political camps. The statement, made in Chinese, was subsequently removed from the firm’s website. Prince distanced himself from the region in a statement to Bloomberg.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
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