14.10.2010
La Jornada
A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater's Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State "security services," that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it.
Many military and former CIA officers work for Blackwater or related companies created to divert attention from their bad reputation and make more profit selling their nefarious services-ranging from information and intelligence to infiltration, political lobbying and paramilitary training - for other governments, banks and multinational corporations. According to Scahill, business with multinationals, like Monsanto, Chevron, and financial giants such as Barclays and Deutsche Bank, are channeled through two companies owned by Erik Prince, owner of Blackwater: Total Intelligence Solutions and Terrorism Research Center. These officers and directors share Blackwater.
One of them, Cofer Black, known for his brutality as one of the directors of the CIA, was the one who made contact with Monsanto in 2008 as director of Total Intelligence, entering into the contract with the company to spy on and infiltrate organizations of animal rights activists, anti-GM and other dirty activities of the biotech giant.
Contacted by Scahill, the Monsanto executive Kevin Wilson declined to comment, but later confirmed to The Nation that they had hired Total Intelligence in 2008 and 2009, according to Monsanto only to keep track of "public disclosure" of its opponents. He also said that Total Intelligence was a "totally separate entity from Blackwater."
A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater's Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State "security services," that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it.
Many military and former CIA officers work for Blackwater or related companies created to divert attention from their bad reputation and make more profit selling their nefarious services-ranging from information and intelligence to infiltration, political lobbying and paramilitary training - for other governments, banks and multinational corporations. According to Scahill, business with multinationals, like Monsanto, Chevron, and financial giants such as Barclays and Deutsche Bank, are channeled through two companies owned by Erik Prince, owner of Blackwater: Total Intelligence Solutions and Terrorism Research Center. These officers and directors share Blackwater.
One of them, Cofer Black, known for his brutality as one of the directors of the CIA, was the one who made contact with Monsanto in 2008 as director of Total Intelligence, entering into the contract with the company to spy on and infiltrate organizations of animal rights activists, anti-GM and other dirty activities of the biotech giant.
Contacted by Scahill, the Monsanto executive Kevin Wilson declined to comment, but later confirmed to The Nation that they had hired Total Intelligence in 2008 and 2009, according to Monsanto only to keep track of "public disclosure" of its opponents. He also said that Total Intelligence was a "totally separate entity from Blackwater."
However, Scahill has copies of emails from Cofer Black after the meeting with Wilson for Monsanto, where he explains to other former CIA agents, using their Blackwater e-mails, that the discussion with Wilson was that Total Intelligence had become "Monsanto's intelligence arm," spying on activists and other actions, including "our people to legally integrate these groups." Total Intelligence Monsanto paid $ 127,000 in 2008 and $ 105,000 in 2009.
No wonder that a company engaged in the "science of death" as Monsanto, which has been dedicated from the outset to produce toxic poisons spilling from Agent Orange to PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), pesticides, hormones and genetically modified seeds, is associated with another company of thugs.
Almost simultaneously with the publication of this article in The Nation, the Via Campesina reported the purchase of 500,000 shares of Monsanto, for more than $23 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which with this action completed the outing of the mask of "philanthropy." Another association that is not surprising.
It is a marriage between the two most
brutal monopolies in the history of industrialism: Bill Gates controls
more than 90 percent of the market share of proprietary computing and
Monsanto about 90 percent of the global transgenic seed market and most
global commercial seed. There does not exist in any other industrial
sector monopolies so vast, whose very existence is a negation of the
vaunted principle of "market competition" of capitalism. Both Gates and
Monsanto are very aggressive in defending their ill-gotten monopolies.
Although Bill Gates might try to say
that the Foundation is not linked to his business, all it proves is the
opposite: most of their donations end up favoring the commercial
investments of the tycoon, not really "donating" anything, but instead
of paying taxes to the state coffers, he invests his profits in where it
is favorable to him economically, including propaganda from their
supposed good intentions. On the contrary, their "donations" finance
projects as destructive as geoengineering or replacement of natural
community medicines for high-tech patented medicines in the poorest
areas of the world. What a coincidence, former Secretary of Health Julio
Frenk and Ernesto Zedillo are advisers of the Foundation.
Like Monsanto, Gates is also engaged in
trying to destroy rural farming worldwide, mainly through the "Alliance
for a Green Revolution in Africa" (AGRA). It works as a Trojan horse to
deprive poor African farmers of their traditional seeds, replacing them
with the seeds of their companies first, finally by genetically modified
(GM). To this end, the Foundation hired Robert Horsch in 2006, the
director of Monsanto. Now Gates, airing major profits, went straight to
the source.
Blackwater, Monsanto and Gates are three
sides of the same figure: the war machine on the planet and most people
who inhabit it, are peasants, indigenous communities, people who want
to share information and knowledge or any other who does not want to be
in the aegis of profit and the destructiveness of capitalism.
* The author is a researcher at ETC Group
Translated from the Spanish version by:
Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru
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