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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Tom Engelhardt: "The Age of Impunity" @ Tom's Dispatch
[Excerpt] ... As June ended, the New York Times front-paged an account
of an act of corporate impunity that may, however, be unique in the
post-9/11 era (though potentially a harbinger of things to come). In
2007, as journalist James Risen tells it, Daniel Carroll, the top
manager in Iraq for the rent-a-gun company Blackwater, one of the warrior corporations that accompanied
the U.S. military to war in the twenty-first century, threatened Jean
Richter, a government investigator sent to Baghdad to look into
accounts of corporate wrongdoing. ... [End of Excerpt]
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