Mercenaries cast dark shadows on U.S. democracy
When years ago Consolidation Coal, Ford Motor Co. and U.S. Steel created their own private armies, including Pinkertons, to keep the word “profits” always followed by the verb “skyrocketing,” and to keep workers under their control and the union out, no one dreamed that in the 21st century the privatization of the U.S. military would be on the political agenda.
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WEST POINT, N.Y.: Hundreds protest Iraq war, Cheney AMHERST, Mass.: Former Bush aide booed at graduation OBERLIN, Ohio: City Council calls for impeachment BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Medicaid slashed on phony pretext
