guillotine watch Blackwater founder to site mercenary training camps conveniently close to China's Uighur concentration camps Cory Doctorow
class war Blackwater founder and DeVos war-criminal sibling Trump should install merc-backed viceroy in Afghanistan Cory Doctorow
war “The Warrior Class”: Blackwater videos in Harper's Magazine show brutality on display Xeni Jardin
war Blackwater and co Iraq data-dump: mercenaries shot a judge with impunity, used bullets as hand signals, were not disciplined as this "would lower morale" Cory Doctorow
kickstarter Duncan Jones is raising money for a great looking graphic novel follow-up to "Moon" Thom Dunn
tabloids The Man Who Knew Too Much! Why China murdered its own ambassador, in this week’s highly dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
class war The Pinkertons' plan for climate change: a mercenary army that guards one-percenters as the seas rise Cory Doctorow
Business Bowing to public pressure, Coinbase announces it will "transition out" the ex-Hacking Team cybermercenaries whose company it just bought Cory Doctorow
hacking team Coinbase bought a company founded by disgraced cybermercenaries from Hacking Team, and now Coinbase users are trying unsuccessfully to delete their accounts Cory Doctorow
eff This is bad: the UAE's favorite sleazeball cybermercenaries have applied for permission to break Mozilla's web encryption Cory Doctorow
politics Ex-NSA American mercenaries for UAE used 'Karma' to hack journalists and human rights activists Xeni Jardin
trump Ukraine asks Canada to continue training troops to oppose Russia's invasive bullshit Seamus Bellamy
Business Dystopia watch: American schools are installing anti-shooter smoke cannons and bulletproof doors Cory Doctorow
russia Russian investigative journalist who wrote about Russian mercenaries in Syria dies from fall Mark Frauenfelder
late stage capitalism Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing precedes Going Galt Cory Doctorow
books The Warrior Within: a tight science fiction novella about a warrior who contains multitudes Cory Doctorow