The Canberra Times reveals who is making a killing, largely invisible in the public domain and likely to only make more money in the years ahead; privatisation is a bi-partisan disease: Detention centre operators, an international training company, a NSW Government department and a multinational IT firm are the big winners from the Federal Government’s…
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Some are doing very well with this endless war post 9/11
The Los Angeles Times reports: It wasn’t long after the World Trade Center twin towers fell that U.S. Army special forces units were dispatched to the desolate outcroppings of Afghanistan to stalk and eradicate the Taliban. The commandos were outfitted with radios, night vision goggles and automatic rifles. But a select few carried a new…
Voices rising against Serco’s power
Very few journalists in the corporate press seem interested in the ever-expanding role of unaccountable Serco, the British multinational. Privatisation is accepted as gospel by both major sides of politics and the mainstream media. To its credit, Green Left Weekly publishes today the following important part of the story: British-based multinational corporation Serco Group is…
Why can’t a nice Blackwater man just go back to kill innocents?
Oh the horrors: A federal judge denied a request by a former contractor, convicted of killing an Afghan civilian, for permission to return to Afghanistan for employment, according to a ruling made public Wednesday. Calling the request “ill-timed” and “the epitome of arrogance,” U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar flatly refused to give Virginia Beach…
Here’s a great idea; let’s just privatise everything
Mother Jones with the latest mad scheme: In Michigan, a state perennially crippled by budget deficits [1], public school districts across the state have already outsourced their bus drivers, cafeteria workers, sports coaches, and janitors to try and save money. Now Republicans in Michigan’s state Legislature want to take the outsourcing frenzy one giant leap…
Wikileaks reveals Israeli company loving “war on terror” (aka targeting Muslims makes us good money)
9/11 happens. An already large privatised security industry massively expands. Israel is the supposed expert on such matters (being good at racial profiling and killing Arabs whilst damaging the security prospects and future of the state). Wikileaks releases a document from March 2008 that highlights just one company looking to make a fortune from this…
Contracting in Afghanistan is turning that country into a deformed beast
My following investigation appears today in Crikey: In the 10 years since 9/11, millions of people have been killed but countless firms have benefited from the explosion in Western defence spending. Brian Michael Jenkins, senior adviser to the president at Rand Corporation, recently told National Defence that “the war on terrorism cost $3.8 trillion in…
Afghanistan may be at war but rest assured the vultures will come
A friend says that a link to this page appeared on Murdoch’s Australian today, just proving that exploitating the fears and conflict of a war-torn country is never beyond the remit of disaster capitalists: U.S. geologists just found some $1 trillion of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan. What’s next for the war-torn country? Overnight, Afghanistan…
Memo to world; you’re paying the enemy in Afghanistan not to attack you
This fascinating feature by Matthieu Atkins in Caravan Magazine highlights the role of India in backing an insurgency it claims to be against. Just like the rest of the Western powers in this disaster – revealed in a very powerful ABC TV 4 Corners documentary tonight that shows the complete lack of understanding by Australia…
Who really benefits from the bogus “war on terror” (and it isn’t us)?
With the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 just around the corner, except an orgy of self-delusion over the disastrous decade just over. So many wars and deaths and is the West safer? No chance. But a select few corporations have done very well, thanks very much. Disaster capitalism on steroids.… The Guardian reports: The scale…