[Podcast] The return of Erik Prince - The comeback of America’s most infamous mercenary

Nov 1st 2025

"Erik Prince, America’s most infamous mercenary, is back.

"Mr Prince rose to prominence during the war on terror as the founder of #Blackwater, a private military company. The firm earned over a billion dollars providing armed personnel to various branches of the US government before becoming implicated in a number of scandals. In 2007 its contractors killed 14 Iraqi civilians, including a nine-year-old child. The massacre made Mr Prince the face of the Iraq fiasco. He sold the company and disappeared from the public eye.

"But in recent months Mr Prince has reemerged. He has popped up in some of the most dangerous, contested places in the world, from Ukraine to Haiti to the DRC. They are places the Trump administration is interested in too.

"For the Weekend Intelligence the Economist’s Africa Correspondent, Tom Gardner, flew to Cape Town to meet with Prince, the mercenary in CEO’s clothing. Prince is defiant after his years in the political wilderness. And he’s spying some big opportunities. The global mercenary business is on the brink of a new boom. States, across Africa and beyond, are fracturing. The international system is fraying. With UN peacekeepers drawing down, from Mali to Congo to Lebanon, mercenaries of different stripes can expect to fill the void."

Read more / listen:
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2025/11/01/the-return-of-erik-prince

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/YYhBY

#Blackwater
#ErikPrinceColonialism
#SilencingDissent
#USPol #Project2025 #CriminalizingActivism
#ClimateActivists #NoDAPL #Crapitalism
#Fascism #Trump #ChristoFascist
#CorporateFascism #SilencingDissent #ClimateActivists #Activists #NoDAPL #CriminalizingDissent
#CrackdownOnProtests #AntiProtestLaws #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #ErikPrinceColonialism #Academi #TripleCanopy #SilencingDissent #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal

#RepairEconomy Reinvigorated in Central #NewYork, #Syracuse Institute Leads the Charge

May 30, 2025

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK — "Broken lamps, torn clothes, a coffee machine that just won’t work — items like these are common in most households, and all too commonly wind up in the trash bin. Thanks to cheap replacements and a struggling repair economy, #consumerism —and waste — is at an all-time high. In the wake of #tariffs, #ClimateChange, and rapidly shrinking NYS #landfill capacity, a rising repair movement in Central New York is pushing back against the status quo.

"The Repair Cafe held on Saturday, May 10 embodies a social movement shaped by residents, #activists, and community leaders who want to reduce waste through building strong community networks. The event was facilitated by #RepairCafeCNY, an organization established by the Institute for Sustainability Engagement (#ISE) as an offshoot of the global #RepairCafe network. The group aims to reinvigorate repair in Syracuse and the greater CNY region by serving as a central coordinator for free community repair events in the area.

"Repair Cafes are not a new concept to the area. The last known effort locally was that of the Syracuse Repair Cafe, which was operational for a few years before the pandemic halted operations. With repair energy now reinvigorated, organizers hope for the Syracuse Repair Cafe’s soon return."

Read more:
https://sustainabilityengagement.syracuse.edu/repair-economy-reinvigorated-in-central-new-york-syracuse-institute-leads-the-charge/

#SyracuseUniversity #ISE #SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafes #RepairCafesNY #RightToRepair #FixIt #Sustainability

#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert

Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?

Zach Shrewsbury
* American Marine and political candidate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Shrewsbury
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Zach_Shrewsbury

#American #Activists #Military #Candidates

https://www.ft.com/content/e91391e6-b596-4c2b-ac85-49b2f7111a4b

If anything folks in #climate have ALWAYS been bloody realistic about what failure to #mitigate would lead to. #Adaptation is terribly hard because #migration is goddamned "unpopular" and giving #aid to the popular is slightly less "unpopular" than that. And no one gives a shit about biodiversity despite #activists fighting for it for decades even before #climatechange

#humanrights #justice

“But still, it’s easier to be tired, exhausted but purpose-driven here in Ukraine than abroad. I have moments when I don’t know how to survive this any further, but you find that the idea of justice, the idea of the country, the idea of dignity, prevails.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/30/ukraine-women-wartime-wives-mothers-fighters-activists

#ukraine #women #millenials #resistance #resist #peace #europe #eu #europa #war #pause #kyiv #guardian #selfcompassion #compassion #activists #fighters #mothers

Capital B News: From Mississippi to Maryland, Black Communities Are Taking On Big Tech. “In more rural communities, residents near data centers are reporting that the water in their taps is brown and murky or does not drip out at all. The centers are also leading to at least 200 new power plants being built to meet the new energy demands of AI, according to an analysis of permit applications. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/30/capital-b-news-from-mississippi-to-maryland-black-communities-are-taking-on-big-tech/

Here's some great activism & resistance advice from Parkrose Permaculture (on YouTube):

https://youtu.be/vXbJQy7ccg8?si=Kybr1JpBjZaCbYMs

#resistance #antifascism #antifa #persist #activism #activists #ParkrosePermaculture #resist #resistfascism #Americanfascism