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Blackwater USA is facing a lawsuit over the September 16 killings in Baghdad‘s Nisour Square. The largest mercenary company working for the…
Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill has served as the national security correspondent for The Nation and Democracy Now!.
Scahill's work has sparked several congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for “Blackwater.” Scahill is a producer and writer of the award-winning film “Dirty Wars,” which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.
It’s being described as “Baghdad‘s bloody Sunday.” On September 16 a heavily armed State Department convoy guarded by Blackwater USA was whizzing…
If you think the U.S. has only 160,000 troops in Iraq, think again. With almost no congressional oversight and even less public…
The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sell-out on the Iraq war. While the wrangling over…
As President Bush took the podium to deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday, there were five American families receiving news…
JEREMY SCAHILL is an independent journalist who reports frequently for the Nation magazine and the Pacifica radio program Democracy Now! His investigations…
Nothing puts the lie to the Bush Administration’s absurd claim that it invaded Iraq to spread democracy throughout the Middle East more…
In early November, George W. Bush, struggling to claw his way upward in polls that had acquired the consistency of quicksand after…
NEW ORLEANS–Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets…
Giuliana Sgrena would probably be the first to say that to focus on her case would be to miss the point on…