U.S. Mercenaries to UN: Stop Using the Word ‘Mercenary’ in Your Investigation into Mercenaries
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U.S. Mercenaries to UN: Stop Using the Word ‘Mercenary’ in Your Investigation into Mercenaries
The U.S. mercenary trade association asks the UN to join its rebranding campaign.
The latest episode of “Total Makeover: Make Me a More Huggable Mercenary” is just too precious to pass up. As observers of the rise of private paramilitary forces, like Blackwater/Xe (Bush’s thugs) and Triple Canopy (Obama’s hired guns) know, the mercenary industry has its very own trade association, with the warm and fuzzy Orwellian name, the International Peace Operations Association.
With its Disney-esque cartoon sleeping lion logo, this group has long spearheaded the drive to sell greater involvement by the private sector in the U.S. war machine and all other U.S. and UN operations.
Well, the past few months have brought some intense (at times comical) rebranding efforts in the mercenary world. Most prominently, Blackwater changed its name to Xe and its shadowy leader Erik Prince resigned as CEO (while retaining his title of chairman and sole owner of the company).
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