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* [http://www.blackwaterbook.com Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater blog] |
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* [http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/features/feature.php?storyId=397 Interview about ''Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army'', online at CBC Words at Large (audio)] |
* [http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/features/feature.php?storyId=397 Interview about ''Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army'', online at CBC Words at Large (audio)] |
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* Jeremy Scahill, [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070402/scahill_vid "Bush's Shadow Army"] -- from ''[[The Nation]]'': March 15, 2007 |
* Jeremy Scahill, [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070402/scahill_vid "Bush's Shadow Army"] -- from ''[[The Nation]]'': March 15, 2007 |
Revision as of 17:53, 24 May 2007
Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author. He serves as a correspondent for the U.S. radio and TV program Democracy Now!. He is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, and a frequent contributor to The Nation magazine.[1] Scahill and colleague Amy Goodman were co-recipients of the 1998 George Polk Award for their radio documentary, "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship", which documented the Chevron Corporation's role in the killing of two Nigerian environmental activists.[2]
Scahill has reported from post-invasion Iraq; from the former Yugoslavia, where he covered the 1999 NATO bombing[3]; and from post-Katrina Louisiana.[4] He has been a vocal critic of private military contractors, in particular, Blackwater USA, the subject of his book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.[5] The book was the focus of a two-part interview and discussion with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! in March 2007[6]. Up until 1998, he was a regular contributor to the Catholic Worker. He campaigned vigorously against US policy towards Cuba, arguing that the Helms-Burton Act "discards...sovereignty...and attempts to supersede International law with US law...creates a legal framework authorizing financial and military support for armed subversion of a sovereign nation" [1].
References
Scahill, Jeremy. 'US Law Further Tightens Noose on Cuban People'. Catholic Worker, June - July, 1997.
- ^ The Nation
- ^ Polk Awards press release
- ^ Selves and Others
- ^ Democracy Now!
- ^ 464 pages; published by Nation Books, New York, N.Y. 2007: ISBN 1560259795
- ^ part one; part two
External links
- Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater blog
- Interview about Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, online at CBC Words at Large (audio)
- Jeremy Scahill, "Bush's Shadow Army" -- from The Nation: March 15, 2007
- Radio Interview: Journalist Scahill Charts the Rise of Blackwater USA -- from NPR.org: March 19, 2007
- Stories by Jeremy Scahill, many of them on Blackwater USA -- from AlterNet.org
- Socialism 2007 conference: Jeremy Scahill is a featured speaker at the Socialism 2007 conference in Chicago.
- Metaphoria. 'Cuba'. August 1997, 4:12, 48
- Scahill on The Hour