"In a day and age filled with fearmongering and cowardice, I am pleased that Starz is standing up and allowing this film to reach a wide audience," says Greenwald. "Watch it, discuss it, debate it, and then most important ... take action to fix the wrongs ... that is Democracy."

An article from Forbes with the apt subtitle "Greed may be good, war is better" has the full story:

"... as conflict continues to dominate headlines analysts
remain upbeat on military contractors. In a client note, Richard Tortoriello, an analyst at Standard & Poor's, wrote that his outlook for the Aerospace & Defense sub-industry is positive."

Read the full story at Forbes.

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We were inspired Kasie Hunt's article about how the Myspace profiles of the soldiers we have lost can serve as important and telling memorials to their lives.

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“We want to know exactly what the government is asking contractors to do,” said Paul Cox, Price’s spokesman. “We have serious concerns about prisoner interrogation, about private surveillance, about the transfer of prisoners between countries.”

As I continued down that very long, very marble hall I began to have flashbacks about the road that had gotten me here. It started when we began work on Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers January 2006.

I thought of the call I received from Bob Borosage at Campaign for America's Future­ he said Brave New Films had to do a film about the war profiteering occurring in Iraq. I remember my visceral response when I first heard the term war profiteering-how could anyone be so sick as to profiteer from war.

As I walked down the hall, I thought of the 3000 people who donated $25 and $50 a piece to help us get started on production of the film. We had had trouble raising funds in the timeframe we needed to work within, and the amazing people who had supported Brave New Film's past work chipped in to get our production started.

I thought of our wonderful Executive Producer Dal LaManga who invested the money we needed to finish. He said to me, "Stop trying to raise more money, here, go finish the movie and tell the world what is happening."

I thought of the soldiers, and of the families of contractors who appear in the film -- their courage continues to motivate and inspire me.

I flashed back to the thousands of screenings of Iraq for Sale that occurred across the country and around the world.

And then, I realized I was there, at the entrance to the hearing room about to speak to the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense about war profiteering.

Read the startling article here.

From DailyKos:

The real problem is with what he's turned Blackwater into, how the company is being used to our ridicule country's justice system and the careless way in which its employees are being treated.

According to BASIC's Isenberg, private military companies like Blackwater use political campaign contributions and lobbying firms to influence the government.