#eeben_barlow

Prince #Blackwater of China
▻http://africasacountry.com/prince-blackwater-of-china

The paroxysmal ethics of private military ventures are in the news again after The Wall Street Journal’s recent “Saturday Interview” with #Erik_Prince. He is now “chairman of Frontier Services Group, an Africa-focused security and logistics company with intimate ties to China’s largest state-owned conglomerate, Citic Group.” If you read the interview, then you know Prince is a savvy businessman, because he is a savvy like that. Why? Chinese trade surpassed American trade in Africa back in 2009. And, as WSJ’s David Feith is quick to point out, China-Africa trade could reach $385 billion by 2015.

#JOURNALISM #MEDIA #Charlie_Rose #Eeben_Barlow #mercenaries #US_foreign_policy

The #BullshitFiles : An Open Letter to the #New_Yorker
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-bullshitfiles-an-open-letter-to-the-new-yorker

Following the publication of #Elizabeth_Rubin’s profile of #Shannon_Sedgwick_Davis (“How a Texas Philanthropist Helped Fund the Hunt for #Joseph_Kony”, posted October 21, 2013), readers have raised concerns about the New Yorker’s fact-checking process, as well as its apparent lack of interest in the legal and ethical implications of funding private military operations with secretly managed (...)

#JOURNALISM #MEDIA ##BullshitFiles #Eeben_Barlow #FW_de_Klerk #Jason_Russell #Uganda