Blackwater Watch|Blackwater USA/Worldwide, now called Xe, is the world’s largest private mercenary army with over 20,000 soldiers and its own air force.

Two terrifying novels haunted the 20th Century and continue to trouble us today: Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four and Huxley’s Brave New World. Every day, newspapers invoke their nightmarish visions, whether driven by Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’ repression or Huxley’s consumer …. From Blackwater and Halliburton, to Canadian arms manufacturers whose sales in 2006 placed them fourth on the list of international arms industries, the Mideast wars are a cornucopia to corporations. …

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