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The New York Times is reporting an "apparent evolution" in president-elect Barack Obama’s thinking on Iraq, citing recent statements about his plan…
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.
U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he…
After more than five years of rampant violence and misconduct carried out by the massive army of private corporate contractors in Iraq…
Jeremy Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist who reports for Democracy Now! and The Nation, as well as an expert on privatized…
It seems that executives from Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush Administration’s favorite hired guns in Iraq and Afghanistan, are threatening to pack up…
This past September, the secretive mercenary company Blackwater USA found its name splashed across front pages throughout the world after the company’s…
Back in 1989, in his smash hit Say Anything, John Cusack famously stood with a boom box above his head outside the…
Jeremy Scahill is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He is an award-winning…
News Flash: The Bush administration acknowledges there is a such thing as international law. But, predictably, it is not being invoked…
Apparently there is one set of rights for Blackwater mercenaries and another for the rest of us. Normally when a group…