1. Blackwater
   The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   A federal jury in Washington, D.C., returned guilty verdicts against four Blackwater operatives charged with killing more than a dozen Iraqi civilians and wounding scores of others in Baghdad in 2007.
3. Mercenaries on the make
   Iraq is now awash with unaccountable 'security contractors'
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2007
   Contracted mercenaries now outnumber American troops in Iraq. These contractors are immune to prosecution for any wrongdoing in Iraq thanks to provisional laws that came into effect after the invasion. Most of these contractors are not American, the war is being outsourced.
4. The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
   Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1998
   Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
5. Secret Armies, Shadow Wars, Silent Unaccountability
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   We live today in an era of postmodern war. It's a two-front war -- the first being the virtual front of threats, posturing, and arms buildups we persist in waging, Cold War-style, against state-based mirror-images of ourselves (Russia and China); the second being the dirty front we wage in the shadows against irregular, non-state thugs and pygmy tyrants who use their weaknesses as strengths, asymmetrically, to turn our strengths into weaknesses.
6. Strike!
   The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
7. Twenty-First-Century Fascism: Private Military Companies in Service to the Transnational Capitalist Class
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Globalization of trade and central banking have propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
8. US Intimidated by Its Own Mercenaries
   A Silence on Atrocities
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   So much for transparency, civil liberties, and prosecuting the crimes of a predecessor (the cardinal rule of presidents, at least this one, cover-up WAR CRIMES past and present, a solemn command of the National Security State). Silence and deniability, in all matters large and small, characterize the responses of United States government and private principals.
9. Will ANC government ever prosecute South Africans in Israeli Army?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   When South African security services prevented a Cape Town girl from boarding a plane allegedly to join ISIS, many South Africans were pleased but at the same time surprised at how swift the reaction of our security services were. How come the same reaction is not applied to South African Zionist Jews serving in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)?

Experts on Mercenaries in the Sources Directory

1. CorpWatch
2. United Nations Human Rights Council