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.

In 1994, Dave Frishberg wrote My Country Used to Be – whose lyrics at the time lamented how the USA no longer manufactured anything: “now we buy overseas”. But following 9-11, he re-wrote the lyrics to reflect the feelings that all of us felt at its … Tip Jar/Your Observations? (15.00 / 1). Any thoughts on the above? Or, any lighter-side, non-incendiary news stories from this past week that wouldn’t show up on Blackwater or BP’s radar screen … but did on yours? …

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