Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince is now lobbying to deploy mercenaries instead of the US military in order to bring the 17-year war in Afghanistan to an end. We discuss the proposal with Antony Loewenstein, author of “Disaster Capitalism”
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Prince say its would be cheaper which is exactly the opposite what the industrial military security complex want.
What a irony and telling about the perverted american society as a whole.
We find You guilty, will we hold you accountable?
Erik prince is the spawn of satan. Afghanistan eats empires. Good for them, we need to get the hell out of the middle east.
We will be in war? Since when Afghanistan is part of th USA? What a useless evil entity this grey-water is.
Because privatization always costs less (eye roll). He should stand next to Kissinger at the Hague.
Who are these war mongers and why do we support mercenaries.
Boycott Israel and her agents and minions in our government.
Who would have ever guessed that people never stop resisting a foreign occupation?
You can tell when you're watching news vs. propaganda. The latter shows the bombs taking off, the former shows them hitting.
The birth of the American Central -Asian Company; burgeoning business of violence cruelty extortion and theft marches on. How self evidently evil can one person be without collapsing in shame.
I don't think it would be a wise idea to allow someone like this guy to have access to military weapons on the scale necessary to wage a war with..
I can't remember what this war is about. All of this "Freedom & Democracy "is confusing.
They didn't mention that prince wants to steal the natural resources of Afghanistan for American manufacturing.
Why can't someone push for peace?
What a piece crap of humanity.
the private interest feeling comfortable in assuming the paternity of the operation …
"make hard power great again" ?
vampires starving for war
Well, opium is big, big money!
At the present time about 40% of us army personnel engaged in war theaters around the world are composed of mercenaries. War has been privatized all ready — and war is now the major US export.
What motive would a private army have for pulling out of a war that a government wouldn't have?
They want to hiring mercenaries?! How did that work in Syria? You hire a bunch of goons, they don't care about the people in the country, nor do they hold any true allegiance to a country but the dollar. They will go over said budget, they will lose the hearts of the people in Afghanistan (even more that it is) and more civilians will die. I wonder if Trump holds any stocks in this new mercenary business venture?
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Mercenary War criminal.
Taliban control 70% of territory and that's after 17 years of fighting US and NATO coalition.
Trillion DOLLAR armies vs. Pashtune goat hearders and farmers.
Note: there are already thousands of privatized soldiers in Afghanistan now.
Jeezus, a bunch of little boys playing army for 17 years! Murdering & Destroying the lives of an entire country. All done in our name, by psychopath warmongers. We are so sick!
This man belongs in jail.
They way the Americans win is to bring all our men and women home, stop all aggressive war behaviors and help Afghanistan rebuild what this government is responsible for destroying with money and resources. That’s what helps the citizens there and here. you will have peace
Blame lies squarely on the US Government which has Blatantly Failed through their Policies & has Shirked its Responsibilities. Come today and their decision to continue their Failures by Privatizing Wars to Paid US Mercenary Forces Who Off Course will be absolutely Unaccountable or never Prosecuted for their Actions in any Illegal & Illegitimate Wars & Invasions that US Government carries out. This Drama has been witnessed in Afghanistan Iraq and their Success / Failures have been well Documented.
Erik Prince is a sociopath that needs to meet John McCain sooner rather than later.
Contract killers, really????!!!!
Millions you murdered are not enough???!!!!
Peace just peace, no more wars, enough of this war mongering foreign policy of US.
Erik Prince is such a kind man he stands next to the heroin dealers on the street offering coupons just before you purchase what a sweetheart…. now my drug dollars can go further yay
I’m sick of the existence of Evil people!
Very troubling. Thanks for this. US Corporate Media fails us.
Great to hear an Aussie accent on this great channel!
and are they really all just short contract mercenaries or are they trainee troops for trouble elsewhere ?
I went to an EMT class with a young man who was a navy seal, blackwater tried to recruit him but he knew their game. They have a training course, a boot camp, that costs $20,000. If you successfully complete the boot camp and you toe the party line, then you become a mercenary, getting $100,000 per year tax free. If you don't support the Christian jihad of Eric Prince, blackwater would find a doctor to say that you have disability genetically to go to the theater of war and you have to pay for the boot camp.
Who's bullshitting whom Prince – Permanent war is what Republicans have been after since the Cheney administration. It's the new economy don't you know. And American are too coddled to think about it or care.
Someone at the pentagon needs to put prince in his place.