Mercenaries

‘The Crazy American’: How Col. Andy Milburn’s drunken antics torpedoed top US mercenary group

Amid allegations of drunken rampages across Kiev, Mozart Group co-founder Andy Milburn has disbanded his mercenary firm. Milburn is now lashing out at The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal for exposing his intoxicated tirade against the Ukrainian soldiers he trained. One of the most prominent mercenary firms operating out of the United States has collapsed under its director’s weight. Mozart Group co-founder and retired Marine Col. Andy Milburn has been involved in a series of drunken episodes both on and off camera […]

Georgian Legion Carries Out ISIS-Style Executions in Ukraine—with Covert U.S. Support

U.S. has a long history of subcontracting dirty counterinsurgency operations to brutal proxy forces–the Georgian Legion is but the latest The Georgian Legion stands out among the many right-wing militias of Ukraine. While most of the new breed of Ukrainian fascists are active on social media, the Georgian Legion has gone beyond Telegram and risen […]

War Porn, Blue Bloods, and Fathers (and sons)

This is a rite of passage that needs to go the way of the Dodo. Mercenaries, and now, we have a blue blood son, grandson to Robert Kennedy, heading out to Ukraine with some sad sack ideas about what he in the name of Hell is going to do in that country? Yep, RFK Jr., […]
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Is the U.S. and NATO Running Another Operation Gladio in Europe?

Part Two of a Three-Part CAM Series on Mercenaries and Clandestine Operations in Ukraine [In Part Two of this three-part series on foreign mercenary fighters in Ukraine, (see Part 1) the nexus between mercenaries with experience in Syria, Ukraine and U.S.-EU-NATO armed forces becomes more apparent. This second part of the investigation looks at Shaun […]

Coronavirus, incidents and endless training: Brazilian collection spoke about the everyday life of the “foreign legion” of Ukraine

At the end of April, the Brazilian mercenary Fabio Junior de Oliveira returned to his homeland after serving in the so-called. “foreign legion” in the territorial defense of Ukraine. A former soldier spoke about his experience.   At a training center in Ukraine, he was found to have lack of equipment, food, and lack of […]

Endless Wars and Failed States: The Tragedy of Neoliberalism

Then all cried with one accord, ‘Thou art King, and God and Lord; Anarchy, to thee we bow, Be thy name made holy now!’ — “The Mask of Anarchy,” Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819 Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the American ruling establishment embarked on a policy of backing radical anti-nation state ideologies (henceforth […]