Celine Joiris

Celine Joiris is a 16-year-old volunteer with the WRL, where she works with the Stop the Merchants of Death program.

Privatizing (In)Security

The Mercenary Challenge to Anti-militarism

Mercenaries are nothing new; people outside of national armies have been fighting and dying for pay since the days of ancient Rome. Now in the midst of another empire’s reign, “private security companies”—as they are benignly called—have been on the rise in the United States for several decades. Under the Bush administration however, they have become central to the war on and occupation of Iraq.