Wayback Wednesday: Blackwater and Mystical Imperialism

Podcast: A View from the Bunker · Derek Gilbert

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

It’s Wayback Wednesday! Recent news that Blackwater is still operating as a de facto arm of the US government (in Congo) brought to mind a 2010 discussion with Paul and Phillip Collins about Blackwater in Iraq—and the disturbing theopolitics behind the group. First released January 4, 2010 APPARENTLY ONE can shoot people with impunity, if you have a security contract with the U.S. government and you do your shooting in Baghdad. That’s the takeaway from the District Court ruling last week that exonerated five Blackwater contractors who were accused of killing 17 Iraqis withou...