While there has been a great deal of press about Academi/Xe Services/Blackwater and other mercenary companies, of all the print articles we have come across, a few stand out that touch on issues and make points that we believe are important.

• US: DynCorp Disgrace
• The War Profiteers - War Crimes, Kidnappings & Torture
• Georgetown Security Law Brief
• Frida Berrigan, The Pentagon's Cubicle Mercenaries, September 16, 2008
• William Astore, Reclaiming Our Citizen-Soldier Heritage, July 22, 2008
• Nikolas Kozloff, Promoting Iraqi Occupation for 'a Million Years', June 10, 2008
• Subtopia, Bryan Finoki, Blackwater's Border Bypass, June 10, 2008
• Galal Nassar, Privatising War, May 31, 2008
• Alternet, Jeremy Scahill, Pioneering Blackwater Protesters Given Secret Trial and Criminal Conviction, January 29, 2008
• Subtopia, Bryan Finoki, Resisting Blackwater Sprawl, December 3, 2007
• The Nation, Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater's Brothers, November 15, 2007
• Protection for “Haves” in Bush’s Ownership Society
• Iraqis Sue Blackwater for Baghdad Killings
• IPS-Inter Press Service, Ali al-Fadhily, IRAQ: When Blackwater Kills, No Questions Asked
• OpEdNews, Is State Department Cover-up a Criminal Obstruction of Justice?
• Daily Kos, Bush Authoritarianism: Blackwater+Amway=GOP, Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
• The Christian Science Monitor, In contractors' shootings, Iraqis search for justice
• The Nation, Jeremy Scahill, Blackwatergate, October 4, 2007
• Wayne Madsen Report, Blackwater training police in American cities and towns
• Philadelphia Inquirer,Chris Hedges, What if our mercenaries turn on us?, June 3, 2007
• American Chronicle, Gary Ater, Blackwater USA Is More Than Just a Private Contractor, October 4, 2007
• The Nation, Jeremy Scahill, Making a Killing, October 15, 2007
• MoJoBlog, Bruce Falconer, Making a Killing: A Blackwater Timeline, October 9, 2007
• Subtopia, Bryan Finoki, Tracking Blackwater in Portrero, April 4, 2007
• The Raw Story, Massive security contractor faces growing protest in rural California town over 824-acre base, April 3, 2007
• NewsWeek Blackwater: The Confidential Iraqi Incident Report
• Harper's Magazine, Ken Silverstein, Revolving Door to Blackwater Causes Alarm at CIA, September 12, 2006