“These pardons violate U.S. obligations under international law and more broadly undermine humanitarian law and human rights at a global level.” A group of United Nations experts on the use of mercenaries said Wednesday that President Donald Trump committed an “affront to justice” last week when he pardoned four former Blackwater security contractors for the war […]
An explosive New York Times report revealed Saturday that notorious war profiteer Erik Prince recruited former American and British spies to work with the right-wing group Project Veritas to infiltrate at least one Democratic congressional campaign and organizations “considered hostile” to President Donald Trump’s agenda. Prince is the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater. […]
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, penned a lengthy letter that he then disbursed to journalists, asking President Trump to withdraw from the 16-year war in Afghanistan was made public this week. Trump has been considering raising the troop strength in that war-torn, beleagured country from its present level of approximately 8,400 to over […]