So we’re going to try making this as un-annoying as possible. It’s the most important month of the year for our fundraising, with upward of 15 percent of our annual online total coming in during the final week-and there’s a lot to say about why Mother Jones’ journalism, and thus hitting that big number, matters tremendously right now.īut you told us fundraising is annoying-with the gimmicks, overwrought tone, manipulative language, and sheer volume of urgent URGENT URGENT!!! content we’re all bombarded with. THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.Īt least we hope they will, because that’s our approach to raising the $350,000 in online donations we need right now-during our high-stakes December fundraising push. As the nation celebrated the 400th anniversary of the first English settlement in the New World, the establishment of Jamestown, Va., it coincidentally observed four centuries of PSCs in America.īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. That’s why in our first issue of Serviam we trace the history of one element of today’s global stability industry: private security contractors, or PSCs. The spirit that embodied our country’s early pioneers-seeking one’s fortune while generously serving others-ideally motivates the best of today’s providers of private global stability solutions. The immigrants and settlers and the investors who financed their expeditions defended themselves on their own and hired professionals to help them. The early English colonists came to the wilds of America with no military support from their government, despite constant threats from Indians and other European powers. With vision and ingenuity, toughness and grit, they built a new land of prosperity and safety for all who sought to participate. Private initiative, innovators, soldiers, pilgrims and missionaries, and entrepreneurs of all stripes founded what became the United States. To hear Waller tell it in his inaugural editor’s note, private security firms are as central to America’s heritage as the pilgrims themselves. deGraffenreid, is a board member of Frank Gaffney’s hawkish Center for Security Policy), the magazine bills itself as a provider of “accurate and actionable information about private sector solutions to promote global stability.” Serviam is a sleeker, tamer version of SOF, which, like the companies it caters to, is seeking to soften the mercenary image, casting soldiers-for-hire as international peacekeepers. Michael Waller and published by EEI Communications (whose president, James T. Edited by conservative author and think tanker J. That time has arrived and the mag is called Serviam (Latin for “I will serve”). It was only a matter of time before an entrepreneurial publisher seized on the private military contracting boom-and all those untapped ad dollars-in order to give Soldier of Fortune, long the preeminent mag for hired guns, a run for its money. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
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