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Where are the PSC regulations?

In the last few decades, specialised private security companies (PSCs) have come a long way and have increasingly assisted police and military in almost all levels of security. Their legacy is quite deep – private security companies assisted the British even during the US war for independence. More recently, the malaise caused in Iraq has opened up a new chapter, thanks to Blackwater – the largest PSC handling operations then.

A former Blackwater employee made a series of damning allegations against Blackwater’s owner Erik Prince in August, 2009 in a federal court in Virginia. As per this former employee, Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe” and that Prince was personally responsible for certain killings in Iraq. Although the judge has been sceptical about the claim, Prince has been accused of deploying medically unfit personnel for carrying lethal weaponry, just for earning more money. Blackwater has gone through several rebranding process (it’s now known as Xe Services) and has created more than a dozen affiliate companies (some allege, to transfer funds).

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.

2012 : DNA National B-School Survey 2012
Ranked 1st in International Exposure (ahead of all the IIMs)
Ranked 6th Overall
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IIPM IN FINANCIAL TIMES, UK. FEATURE OF THE WEEK
IIPM strong hold on Placement : 10000 Students Placed in last 5 year
IIPM’s Management Consulting Arm-Planman Consulting
Professor Arindam Chaudhuri – A Man For The Society….
IIPM: Indian Institute of Planning and Management
IIPM makes business education truly global
Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri
Rajita Chaudhuri-The New Age Woman
IIPM B-School Facebook Page
IIPM Global Exposure
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IIPM : The B-School with a Human Face
IIPM – FLP (Flexi Learning Program) 

GENOCIDE: DOUBLE STANDARDS

Does Obama have it in him to accuse Bush and Cheney of genocide?

The resemblance between the Iraq war and Darfur civil wars (which the US government accepts is a strong case of genocide) are astonishingly strong. In both the cases, the number of casualties (especially of innocent civilians) runs into hundreds of thousands. In both the case, the perpetrators are the same – paramilitaries. In both the cases, the target victims are groups of people from the same “ethnical, racial or religious group.” In Iraq, Bush and Cheney went one step further. They formalised a quasi-genocidal force while setting up the Iraqi forces, where strangely – or perhaps not so strangely – the forces were clearly dominated by Shiite Muslims and ethnic Kurds, indiscriminately writing a swashbuckling tale of terror against Sunni communities. But while Darfur is termed a genocide, the Iraq war is called a ‘counter-insurgency initiative’.

The present US government (and to a large extent, the previous one too) advocated pulling out of troops and decreasing the size of military from Iraq. But when it comes to Darfur what US does is rather declares trial of Omar Bashir for war crimes. Does this sound like genocide? For them it was just ‘War on Terror’

Cut to Darfur case. Sudanese troops and a pro-government militia known as the Janjaweed killed hundreds of thousands of people to suppress an uprising among the region’s ethnic African against the Arab-dominated regime of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. On September 9, 2004, President Bush, EU Parliament, labelled the atrocities in Darfur as genocide. Even John Kerry and senators Joseph Lieberman, Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton labelled the Darfur mayhem a genocide. But none of the names in this esteemed list have ever given even passing references of any genocide when it came to discussing the Iraq war.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.

2012 : DNA National B-School Survey 2012
Ranked 1st in International Exposure (ahead of all the IIMs)
Ranked 6th Overall
Zee Business Best B-School Survey 2012
Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Session at IMA Indore
IIPM IN FINANCIAL TIMES, UK. FEATURE OF THE WEEK
IIPM strong hold on Placement : 10000 Students Placed in last 5 year
IIPM’s Management Consulting Arm-Planman Consulting
Professor Arindam Chaudhuri – A Man For The Society….
IIPM: Indian Institute of Planning and Management
IIPM makes business education truly global
Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri
Rajita Chaudhuri-The New Age Woman
IIPM B-School Facebook Page
IIPM Global Exposure
IIPM Best B School India
IIPM B-School Detail
IIPM Links
IIPM : The B-School with a Human Face
IIPM – FLP (Flexi Learning Program)

The World as hostage

The rise of OPEC has been an abiding curse for the world

One abiding fantasy in the Arab world since 1948 has been the destruction of the state of Israel, many legitimately angry at the treatment meted out to Palestinians and some nursing deep religious and ehtnic hatreds. In 1973, an America supported Israel fought yet another war with neighbouring Arab countries and won a convincing victory. After the 1967 disaster, this repeat pulverised the Arab world and even the autocratic rulers of these oil rich kingdoms and sheikhdoms realised that their thrones were in danger if something was not done to mollify the Arab street. One direct result was the Organisation of Oil and Pteroluem Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposing an embargo on shipments of crude as well as refined oil.

The next step was a multi hundred percent hike in the price of oil. The global economy was literally shaken to its very foundations as a result and complacent American consumers realised that they had to wait for hours to get their cars refilled with ‘gas.’ But the global economy did adjust to higher oil prices while all -almost all-oil exporting countries have started failing as modern functional societies as a result of massive dollar revenues coming from oil exports. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Sudan and Nigeria are just some examples of what happens to societies when easy dollars are used by autocratic regimes to buy peace and promote fundamentalism of one kind or other. Can you imagine a born rich Mohhamed Atta of Saudi Arabia flying aircraft onto the World Trade centre without oil money lurking in the background?

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.

2012 : DNA National B-School Survey 2012
Ranked 1st in International Exposure (ahead of all the IIMs)
Ranked 6th Overall
Zee Business Best B-School Survey 2012
Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Session at IMA Indore
IIPM IN FINANCIAL TIMES, UK. FEATURE OF THE WEEK
IIPM strong hold on Placement : 10000 Students Placed in last 5 year
IIPM’s Management Consulting Arm-Planman Consulting
Professor Arindam Chaudhuri – A Man For The Society….
IIPM: Indian Institute of Planning and Management
IIPM makes business education truly global
Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri
Rajita Chaudhuri-The New Age Woman
IIPM B-School Facebook Page
IIPM Global Exposure
IIPM Best B School India
IIPM B-School Detail
IIPM Links
IIPM : The B-School with a Human Face
IIPM – FLP (Flexi Learning Program)

The World as hostage

The rise of OPEC has been an abiding curse for the world

One abiding fantasy in the Arab world since 1948 has been the destruction of the state of Israel, many legitimately angry at the treatment meted out to Palestinians and some nursing deep religious and ehtnic hatreds. In 1973, an America supported Israel fought yet another war with neighbouring Arab countries and won a convincing victory. After the 1967 disaster, this repeat pulverised the Arab world and even the autocratic rulers of these oil rich kingdoms and sheikhdoms realised that their thrones were in danger if something was not done to mollify the Arab street. One direct result was the Organisation of Oil and Pteroluem Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposing an embargo on shipments of crude as well as refined oil.

The next step was a multi hundred percent hike in the price of oil. The global economy was literally shaken to its very foundations as a result and complacent American consumers realised that they had to wait for hours to get their cars refilled with ‘gas.’ But the global economy did adjust to higher oil prices while all -almost all-oil exporting countries have started failing as modern functional societies as a result of massive dollar revenues coming from oil exports. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Sudan and Nigeria are just some examples of what happens to societies when easy dollars are used by autocratic regimes to buy peace and promote fundamentalism of one kind or other. Can you imagine a born rich Mohhamed Atta of Saudi Arabia flying aircraft onto the World Trade centre without oil money lurking in the background?

Read more.....

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.

2012 : DNA National B-School Survey 2012
Ranked 1st in International Exposure (ahead of all the IIMs)
Ranked 6th Overall
Zee Business Best B-School Survey 2012
Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Session at IMA Indore
IIPM IN FINANCIAL TIMES, UK. FEATURE OF THE WEEK
IIPM strong hold on Placement : 10000 Students Placed in last 5 year
IIPM’s Management Consulting Arm-Planman Consulting
Professor Arindam Chaudhuri – A Man For The Society….
IIPM: Indian Institute of Planning and Management
IIPM makes business education truly global
Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri
Rajita Chaudhuri-The New Age Woman
IIPM B-School Facebook Page
IIPM Global Exposure
IIPM Best B School India
IIPM B-School Detail
IIPM Links
IIPM : The B-School with a Human Face
IIPM – FLP (Flexi Learning Program)