Lookee, Jobs ! Foreign Governments Will Pay You To Kill In Another Country
Revolving Door of Death, From Special Forces to Assassins for Hire In Yemen
Edit: Even though Amanda wrote about this earlier, am leaving this up to add to the discussion.
Blackwater was one of the first, but apparently not the last.
The Company Identified in the article no longer has a website. Searching the archive of it yielded incomplete names, mission statements - indexable phrases. Using those terms/names in a Google search yields another company, Raven Military, which has an identical web description.
— Sam Ross (@tirelessirony) October 16, 2018
How do you feel about our soldiers being trained on our nickel, only to be hired to kill for other governments in a third country?
A call for debate and the support of the US Gov for mercenary assassinations in Yemen.
This story is quite interesting in that they are calling for US support for their mercenary work in Yemen after the fact. Go figure.
.@AramRoston on his investigation for @BuzzFeedNews uncovering a U.S. mercenary operation in Yemen: "U.S. veterans, special forces, SEALs, people who had been trained by the U.S. government, were working for the UAE to assassinate Yemeni politicians who had opposed UAE policies" pic.twitter.com/bKhHXEFu5o
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) October 17, 2018
Caitlin, of course, scissors in to the heart of it all. We live in a world where the Nation State is not alone in extra-judicial killings. The oligarchs got themselves murderers for hire and they are wantonly going out and assassinating any one they choose.
US mercenaries, trained for killing in Iraq and Afghanistan, hired to assassinate people in Yemen, by the UAE, in a proxy war against Iran. The borders between nations are completely meaningless to ruling elites. For them it's all just resources, assets, weapons, and targets. https://t.co/Wz2xYFB1fr
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) October 16, 2018
And you know they are feeling free to hire this done {while} Bush, Obama and Trump Admins have trampled on International Law and Conventions, invading countries at will.
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A call for a hearing.
NEW:
"Justice Dept Must Open Criminal Investigation Into Potential War Crimes by U.S. Mercenaries in Yemen"
By professors @SarahKnuckey (@ColumbiaLaw) and @rgoodlaw (@nyulaw)https://t.co/UCLxbVAfWl
Legal analysis of @Buzzfeed @AramRoston's bombshell investigative report...
— Just Security (@just_security) October 16, 2018
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Many of us opposed Obama's approval and direction of non-judicial killings by drone. The Empty Suit set a precedent for Trumpco. Who will be surprised if Trump or DOD approves the mercenary actions?
Heh. the Justice Department should open an investigation and prosecute. Yeah, well maybe after another election.
How long before the killing starts happening here in the US?
Comments
Update: Democracy Now above is well worth watching imo.
There is also a transcript if you don't have time for the vid.
Have drone footage that happened during Obama Admin.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10/17/investigation_as_us_backed_war_in
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Damn, the pusher man; this is insane;
targets include civilians, can't even hide behind the flimsy argument of taking out combatants making this clearly assassinations. Where is that moral majority when a country needs them?
Thanks, do.
Yes, insane.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Here’s some more comments on this issue
You’ve got way more details and sources than I had but there were comments so maybe you might be interested in them.
https://caucus99percent.com/content/american-mercenaries-were-hired-assa...
UPDATE: yes, definitely do not delete. Yours is far more informative. But I figured the comments those 3 posters made could be referenced and noted.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Thanks, Amanda!
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Apparently the Saudi government has
gotten ‘certification’ from SOS Mike Pompeo that everything the Saudis are doing is cool and they’re are doing everything they can to prevent civilian casualties.
I wonder how that bastid can look himself in a mirror. Or look his family in the eye, the SOB.
Here’s his press release:
Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if he knew about these killers for hire.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Did he get that before or after the Saudis bombed
another hospital that destroyed the maternity ward? Or maybe that was done with a bomb from a different country. Lots of them are selling weapons to them. Just how many billions worth of bombs do they need?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
No despotic ruler can have enough bombs
and bullets. Gotta keep the common trash in line.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
What I don't understand in that story ...
What is the motivation for the Israeli-American Abraham Golan to tell Buzzfeed that there was a targeted assassination program and that he was running it?
https://www.euronews.com/
Hey mimi, it could be that he know's the story
Pure speculation on my part.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Maybe he’s ‘proud’ of his company like
Prince was of Blackwater. Prince has been trying to get the US Government to privatize the endless Afghanistan ‘conflict’.
Some people sell cars. Some people sell insurance. These people sell murder and mayhem.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Been thinking about this yesterday
What does it say about society when people are willing to kill others just because you're getting paid to do it? Do they even know what the person did to be put on a kill list or even if they had done something bad? Do they feel at all bad if they accidentally kill innocent people who just happen to be in the area? I'm the kind of person that will put most bugs outside rather than kill them and stopped fishing when I wondered if it had family waiting for it to come home. I can't imagine how one can square taking someone's life purposely when they hadn't done anything to me.
This goes for the people who join the military knowing that they will be sent to kill people in another country that did nothing to them or their country. Contempt is not a strong enough word for what I feel about people who do that. Or torture people. Or try to gut programs that people rely on to live. Or ..... the list is long.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
before you condemn ...
And how many of the little soldier people know or imagine that could happen to them when they are seduced by skilled military recruiters to join the military service?
Why do you think so many combat veterans have so many difficulties to deal with what happened to them that they kill themselves or completely withdraw from society?
May be it's time to question the recruitment procedures, the draft and the idea of volunteer military services.
If you sell someone for mayhem and murder, may be you sell everbody by ending volunteerism and pay them equally and force everyone to do the same. I would think that would cause the real resistance to all that bullshit.
https://www.euronews.com/
There’s a quote that’s been attributed to
Jay Gould
From what we’re seeing here in this foul situation and out in our own streets today, regardless of who said it I do believe it’s true. But the original quote was...
There is very little that’s humane when it comes to humanity anymore. Or maybe there never really was.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Revolving door
Just like the lobbyists turn up as politicians and return to the 'private' sector for an advancement in salary. So do the trained warriors start with the 'service' and morph into mercenaries. Better pay. It all comes from the same pot.
Fight for 15!
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
We go to war with the force we got
Otherwords, We'll sub out the rest.
Right. And neither the guvmint servants who leave
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Striving on the alter
How long before the killing starts happening here
Already started. Look at the cops and prisoners in this 'just' nation. Low volume only because the media won't carry it. In peoples minds, loud and clear. Get it already. People are standing up and being shot down. Then more stand up because of the lack of justice. Snowballs. They are having trouble dealing with the grassroots no longer believing the 'official' story. Armed and dangerous.
Yah, QMS, there's that, but not what I was referring to.
But when I wrote that question about when it might begin to happen here, I was thinking more about a possible similar organized group of assassins like the ones covered in the essay, trained by the US military but hired by a foreign nation to snuff out those here in the US that might oppose their interests.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Sorry man, still applies
Sorry? Whatttttt?
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.