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Blackwater founder probed by Venezuela over anti-Maduro campaign
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Blackwater founder probed by Venezuela over anti-Maduro campaign

Hindustan Times  

Venezuelan authorities launched an investigation Tuesday into a mysterious online fundraiser fronted by the founder of infamous US security contractor Blackwater, who claims to have raised over $1 million towards ousting President Nicolas Maduro. Blackwater founder probed by Venezuela over anti-Maduro campaign The "Ya Casi Venezuela" campaign site was launched in early September, in response to the country's July 28 …

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This epic slice of Arizona feeds their souls but lacks a basic necessity: Water
8 months, 2 weeks ago

This epic slice of Arizona feeds their souls but lacks a basic necessity: Water

LA Times  

Gilarya Begaye looks out across the brush-blanketed pastures, red-dirt plains and flat-topped mesas that surround her home in the Navajo Nation. “My heart’s always been here.” But for all the ways that living on the reservation feeds the soul, one basic necessity has been sorely lacking for Begaye, her six children and other Navajos: water. Water barrels lie empty at …

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A billion-dollar coal deal in JSW Steel's sights
10 months ago

A billion-dollar coal deal in JSW Steel's sights

Live Mint  

Mumbai: JSW Steel Ltd is in talks with Australia’s Whitehaven Coal to buy a 20% stake in its Blackwater mine for around $1 billion, two people aware of the matter said. JSW Steel’s talks with Whitehaven follow its failed bid to acquire a majority stake in the metallurgical coal business of Canada’s Teck Resources in 2023, which was snapped up …

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Blackwater paved the way for Wagner
1 year, 4 months ago

Blackwater paved the way for Wagner

Al Jazeera  

The use of contractors in the US ‘war on terror’ inspired Russia and other powers to outsource war. For the US, Russia, and other powers, military contractors are serving as convenient means for proxy warfare which offer plausible deniability and mitigate potential domestic tensions over foreign wars. Plausible deniability The Kremlin likely watched closely the US government’s use of contractors …

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Renewed calls for carp cull as SA's flooded River Murray communities await potential blackwater event
1 year, 11 months ago

Renewed calls for carp cull as SA's flooded River Murray communities await potential blackwater event

ABC  

Fears around blackwater are yet to be realised in South Australia's flooded Murray River communities, but experts say the event is not all doom and gloom. Key points: The SA government warned a blackwater event could arise due to River Murray flooding Experts say blackwater poses a significant threat to native fish like the Murray cod Australia's peak fish conservation …

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Native fish suffocating as parts of Murray-Darling Basin turn toxic from unprecedented floodwaters
2 years, 1 month ago

Native fish suffocating as parts of Murray-Darling Basin turn toxic from unprecedented floodwaters

ABC  

Near the New South Wales-Victorian border, fish rescuer Braeden Lampard walks into a flood-soaked wheat field. Key points: Floodwaters have led to the highest water flows in years throughout the Murray-Darling Basin Fish have been dying due to a condition known as hypoxic blackwater, a consequence of mass flooding The effects of the blackwater event are expected to worsen as …

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Ozfish Unlimited volunteers seek to save native fish from Victoria and South Australia
2 years, 1 month ago

Ozfish Unlimited volunteers seek to save native fish from Victoria and South Australia

ABC  

A team of volunteers is seeking a permit from South Australian authorities to save native fish from blackwater-contaminated water in the Riverland. Key points: Volunteers hope to save native fish from SA rivers as blackwater moves downstream removing oxygen from the water Ozfish Unlimited hopes to seek a permit from SA authorities from next week It comes as warmer temperatures …

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Trump's pardon of mercenaries guilty of massacre in Iraq leads to outrage worldwide
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump's pardon of mercenaries guilty of massacre in Iraq leads to outrage worldwide

The Hindu  

United States President DonaldTrump’s notorious pardons list has come in for scathing criticism domestically and internationally. A U.S. congressional report released in 2008 had concluded that between 2005 and 2007, Blackwater security personnel operating in Iraq had used deadly force on a “weekly basis”, causing “significant casualties” and deadly damage. The U.S. Attorney’s office, in a statement issued after the …

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This Blackwater guard pleaded guilty. He atoned. But didn’t get a pardon
3 years, 11 months ago

This Blackwater guard pleaded guilty. He atoned. But didn’t get a pardon

LA Times  

Since the massacre in Baghdad 13 years ago, Jeremy Ridgeway has done just about everything right. His cooperation was so extensive, his contrition so genuine that a tough-on-crime federal judge told him he was the most “unusual defendant to appear before me because I can’t think of a case where I’ve had stronger feelings myself about your commitment to change …

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Attorney for Blackwater murder victim: Trump's pardons "a slap in the face" to U.S. justice
3 years, 11 months ago

Attorney for Blackwater murder victim: Trump's pardons "a slap in the face" to U.S. justice

Salon  

With less than a month left in his presidency, President Trump on Tuesday pardoned four Blackwater security contractors whose convictions for killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2007 had in recent years become a right-wing rallying cry. "The investigation was monumental," Paul Dickinson, a plaintiff's attorney in North Carolina who represented six of the Iraqi victims in a lawsuit in …

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Blackwater | Mercenaries from America
3 years, 11 months ago

Blackwater | Mercenaries from America

The Hindu  

Blackwater Worldwide, the Virginia-based private security firm, whose four convicted contractors were last week granted clemency by President Donald Trump, is arguably the most high-profile embodiment of what is described as the outsourcing of warfare by successive U.S. administrations. In 2018, under former chairman Erik Prince, Blackwater was manoeuvring hard to privatise Washington’s war effort in Afghanistan as a third …

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Trump pardons of Blackwater contractors an ‘insult to justice’
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump pardons of Blackwater contractors an ‘insult to justice’

Al Jazeera  

Lawyers and rights defenders say Trump pardons of four men convicted in killings of 14 Iraqis in 2007 undoes years-long fight for accountability. US prosecutors said the heavily armed Blackwater contractors used sniper weapons, machine guns and grenade launchers to indiscriminately fire at civilians in the crowded traffic circle, causing massive carnage and the killing of two children. “These veterans …

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Relative of Blackwater victim in Iraq says pardons 'unfair'
3 years, 11 months ago

Relative of Blackwater victim in Iraq says pardons 'unfair'

The Independent  

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FBI team leader: How I know the Blackwater defendants didn’t deserve a pardon from Trump (opinion)
4 years ago

FBI team leader: How I know the Blackwater defendants didn’t deserve a pardon from Trump (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Thomas O’Connor served for 23 years as an FBI special agent before retiring in 2019. However, none of those fact patterns are present in President Donald Trump’s pardon of four Blackwater security guards serving time for their involvement in the killing of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad on September 16, 2007. At a place called “Man Camp,” Blackwater Team …

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‘Blood cheaper than water’: Outrage over Trump Blackwater pardons
4 years ago

‘Blood cheaper than water’: Outrage over Trump Blackwater pardons

Al Jazeera  

Iraqis express anger after Trump pardoned four guards convicted in the 2007 Baghdad massacre that killed at least 14 civilians. US President Donald Trump’s issuance of pardons for security guards convicted of killing at least 14 Iraqi civilians in a 2007 Baghdad massacre has caused international uproar, including in Iraq where people expressed outrage and sadness. Today we heard they …

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Father of child killed in Iraq massacre says Trump’s Blackwater pardons ‘broke my life again’
4 years ago

Father of child killed in Iraq massacre says Trump’s Blackwater pardons ‘broke my life again’

The Independent  

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Fox News host: Pardoned Blackwater war criminals were 'doing their job' by massacring 14 civilians
4 years ago

Fox News host: Pardoned Blackwater war criminals were 'doing their job' by massacring 14 civilians

Raw Story  

Fox News host Pete Hegseth on Wednesday praised four Blackwater military contractors who were pardoned by President Donald Trump after they massacred 14 Iraqi civilians. "What the president did for those Blackwater contractors -- it's been described as a massacre," Hegseth said on Fox & Friends. "There's no upside to a call like this other than sending a signal to …

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Trump pardons security contractors in deadly Iraq shooting
4 years ago

Trump pardons security contractors in deadly Iraq shooting

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone. “Paul Slough and his colleagues didn’t deserve to spend one minute in prison,” said Brian Heberlig, …

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Trump hands out pardons to aides caught in Mueller probe, Blackwater guards and Republican politicians
4 years ago

Trump hands out pardons to aides caught in Mueller probe, Blackwater guards and Republican politicians

The Independent  

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Trump Goes On Pardon Spree For Republican Allies, Blackwater Guards
4 years ago

Trump Goes On Pardon Spree For Republican Allies, Blackwater Guards

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Just days before Christmas, President Donald Trump announced that he’s given a wave of pardons to three corrupt former congressmen, two subjects of the special counsel’s Russia investigation and four Blackwater guards convicted in connection with the killings of Iraqi civilians. Among the full pardons are former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and lawyer Alex van der …

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Trump pardons 15, including convicted Blackwater guards
4 years ago

Trump pardons 15, including convicted Blackwater guards

Al Jazeera  

Blackwater guards were convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead. President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to 15 people, including four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of …

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Blackwater massacre survivors In Iraq slam Trump’s decision to pardon guards
4 years ago

Blackwater massacre survivors In Iraq slam Trump’s decision to pardon guards

CNN  

Baghdad, Iraq CNN — An Iraqi man who survived an infamous massacre of unarmed civilians by American security guards in Baghdad has condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon the men as “unjust.” Seventeen Iraqi civilians, including 9- and 11-year-old boys, were killed when private contractors from the US security firm Blackwater opened fired in Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007. …

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Trump pardon of Blackwater killers sparks outrage in Iraq
4 years ago

Trump pardon of Blackwater killers sparks outrage in Iraq

LA Times  

President Trump this week pardoned four Blackwater guards convicted in a 2007 massacre of Iraqi civilians. “President Trump has hit a disgraceful new low with the Blackwater pardons,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the National Security Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. “These military contractors were convicted for their role in killing 17 Iraqi civilians and their actions caused …

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Trump pardons Blackwater war criminals — but ignores Julian Assange, who exposed U.S. war crimes
4 years ago

Trump pardons Blackwater war criminals — but ignores Julian Assange, who exposed U.S. war crimes

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. Observers decried as "grotesque" Trump's full pardon of Blackwater guards Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, Dustin Heard, and Nicholas Slatten and failure to pardon Assange as the publisher struggles to survive in a notorious British jail ahead of an expected extradition ruling on January 4. In a statement accompanying the new pardons and commutations—a …

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