Tag: Mercenaries

Colombian Mercenaries and the Assassination of Haiti’s Jovenel Moïse

Two men, accused of being involved in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, are being transported to the Petionville station in a police car in Port au Prince on July 8, 2021. - Police in Haiti have surrounded a group of possible suspects in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, the UN envoy to Haiti said. Helen La Lime said from the Haitian capital that four members of a group that attacked the presidential palace Wednesday and shot the president have been killed by police and six others are in custody. (Photo by Valerie Baeriswyl / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE BAERISWYL/AFP via Getty Images)

“We’re pumping all this money into Plan Colombia, and meanwhile, we’re hemorrhaging soldiers who go and turn mercenary so they make lots more money in Iraq.”

Source: Colombian Mercenaries and the Assassination of Haiti’s Jovenel Moïse

Syria war: Who benefits from its oil production? – BBC News

 

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President Donald Trump says he expects the United States to benefit by millions of dollars per month from Syria’s oil revenues while US troops remain in the country.

The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has responded by accusing the US of “stealing oil” from his country and Russia, a major supporter of Mr Assad, has called it “international state banditry”.

So who currently controls Syria’s oil production and who benefits from it?

via Syria war: Who benefits from its oil production? – BBC News

Jeremy Scahill sees elites winning – and democracy losing – America’s secret wars.

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