Wallensteinism

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Try dyncorp's, no "e" and with an apostrophe. 2500 hits on Google.
CorpWatch, TalkLeft, The Nation, Alternet among them...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 9:54 PM
Subject: Wallensteinism


> Wallensteinism
>
> While doing my job yesterday evening I was able to listen to some
> interesting stuff on Deutschlandfunk (my favourite German radio station)
> about the "outsorcing" of violence; those modern mercenaries fighting for
> the US-government for example in Iraq and Columbia.
>
> There's a "Radio on demand"-button on the DLF-website, so it's possible to
> listen to that broadcast again (sorrily the first ten minutes are
missing),
> which is what I did this morning because I had missed the last part.
>
> I learned the name "DyneCorps," so I did a web-search for that name. To my
> astonishment I only got three hits on Google and Yahoo. The assertion
being
> made in the broadcast that the increasing use of "private contractors" who
> are operating in a grey zone (paid by US-taxes via the Pentagon) has
hardly
> been perceived by the public seems to be true:
>
>   "There were no matches for your search DyneCorps"
>   (New York Times-search)
>
> 28.5.04: 18:40 - 19:00 Hintergrund Politik
> Krieger gegen Bezahlung. Die Rolle von Privatarmeen in Kriegen und
> Bürgerkriegen
> http://www.dradio.de/dlf/vorschau/
>
>