[PEN-L:32460] Re: Privatization of information

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: Privatization of information

> Joanna writes:
> > Right, though you'll notice nobody wants to
> privatize the army.
> there was an interview of
> someone from the Brookings Institute on U.S. National Public Radio a
> couple of days ago that sugested that a significant portion of the
> U.S. military is already privatized, including the hiring of what we
> euphemism-impaired would call mercenaries. To his credit, the
> interviewee said that there was no evidence that this program had
> saved any money for the government and that the hype about saving
> billions had turned out to be wrong.
> Of course, the use of
> privately hired soldiers and police officers would never be allowed to
> conflict with the state's monopoly of the means of violence: they
> would have to work under the thumb of the government. (Of course,
> maybe they would end up as the social bases for warlords or warladies
> when the center can no longer hold and the U.S. collapses into bloody
> anarchy.)
> Jim

Deborah D. Avant, "Privatizing Military Training," <http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol5/v5n17mil_body.html>

Robert Capps, "Crime without Punishment," <http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/27/military/>

Pratap Chatterjee, "Soldiers of Fortune," <http://sfbg.com/36/31/cover_soldiersoffortune.html>

Ken Silverstein, _Private Warriors_, <http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/silverstein_warriors.shtml>

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Yoshie

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