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Scahill: Washington's War in Yemen Backfires

Znet Article, February, 25 2012 Jeremy Scahill
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For the United States, the question that lingers over Yemen after Ali Abdullah Saleh is: Did US counterterrorism policy strengthen the very threat it sought to eliminate?

Scahill: Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?

Znet Article, January, 10 2010 Jeremy Scahill
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German prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with ...

Scahill: Stunning Statistics About the War That Everyone Should Know

Znet Article, December, 20 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskillâ€™s Contract Oversight subcommittee on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window into the extent to which the Obama administration has picked up the Bush-era war p...

Scahill: The Secret US War In Pakistan

Znet Article, December, 06 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinat...

Scahill: Blackwater: CIA assassins?

Znet Article, August, 27 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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The New York Times is reporting that in 2004 the CIA hired Blackwater "as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of al-Qaeda." According to the Times, "it is unclear whether the CIA had planned to use the contractors to ...

Scahill: CIA Hired Private Military Firm Blackwater for Secret Assassination Program

Znet Article, August, 20 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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We begin today's show with an explosive new report about the private military contractor Blackwater. The New York Times is reporting the CIA hired contractors from Blackwater in 2004 as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operat...

Scahill: Blackwater Still Armed in Iraq

Znet Article, August, 18 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State Department continues to allow Blackwater operatives in Iraq to remain armed. A State Department official told The Natio...

Scahill: It's Wasn't Only Cheney

Znet Article, July, 17 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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While the current focus is on Dick Cheney's role concealing these nefarious missions, the U.S. has long had a bipartisan assassination policy.

Scahill: Torture Continues at GuantÃ¡namo Bay

Znet Article, May, 16 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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As the Obama administration continues to fight the release of some 2,000 photos that graphically document U.S. military abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, an ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the ever-emerging p...

Scahill: A Closer Look at Obama's 'New' Position on Torture Prosecutions

Znet Article, April, 26 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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The big news today is that the Senate Armed Services Committee has released a declassified report on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody.

Scahill: Gen. Petraeus Implements Military Surge Against Four Somali Pirates in a Lifeboat

Znet Article, April, 11 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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In today's episode of "Pirates," the most powerful Navy in the world remains in a stand-off with four pirates in a small boat in the middle of the Indian Ocean. So devastatingly threatening to US national security are these pirates that the Grand ...

Scahill: Obama's Cuba Moves Do Little to End the Economic War on Havana

Znet Article, April, 07 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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While a step in the right direction, easing travel restrictions to Cuba doesn't end the economic blockade of Cuba. That change is long overdue.

Scahill: President Obama, Why Did You Pay Blackwater $70 Million in February?

Znet Article, March, 18 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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For those already outraged at the AIG bonus scandal, here is a fact that should add more fuel to the fire: The Obama administration has paid the mercenary firm formerly known as Blackwater nearly $70 million to operate in Iraq and, according to Th...

Scahill: Mercenary King Erik Prince Resigns as Blackwater CEO

Znet Article, March, 03 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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In a desperate re-branding effort, the notorious firm formerly known as Blackwater bids goodbye to its founder.

Scahill: All Troops Out By 2011? Not So Fast; Why Obama's Iraq Speech Deserves a Second Look

Znet Article, February, 28 2009 Jeremy Scahill
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Some anti-war analysts find hope in President Barack Obama's address at Camp Lejuene in North Carolina on Friday, in which he appeared to spell out a clear date for withdrawal from Iraq.

Scahill: Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Occupation in Iraq

Znet Article, December, 07 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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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 to keep a "residual force" in the country and his pledge to "listen to the recommendations of my co...

Scahill: This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House

Znet Article, November, 21 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realiti...

Scahill: Blackwater Busted? Six Guards May Be Charged in Iraq Massacre

Znet Article, November, 15 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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The US Justice Department appears to be on the verge of handing down the first indictments against armed private forces for crimes committed in Iraq.

Scahill: Blackwater's Not Going Anywhere

Znet Article, August, 01 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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It seems that executives from Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush Administration's favorite hired guns in Iraq and Afghanistan, are threatening to pack up their M4 assault rifles, CS gas and Little Bird helicopters and go back to the Great Dismal Swamp...

Scahill: Blackwater's Private CIA

Znet Article, June, 09 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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This past September, the secretive mercenary company Blackwater USA found its name splashed across front pages throughout the world after the company's shooters gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square. But by early 2008, B...

Cusack: Why the War in Iraq Is Stranger Than Fiction

Znet Article, May, 24 2008 John Cusack
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John Cusack's new film War, Inc., takes on issues few in Hollywood today would dare to: war profiteering, mercenaries, political corruption and embedded journalism. A political satire, the film stars Cusack as Hauser, a hit-man for hire who is dep...

Scahill: John Cusack's War: The Actor Battles to Un-embed Hollywood With His New Film, War, Inc.

Znet Article, May, 16 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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Back in 1989, in his smash hit Say Anything, John Cusack famously stood with a boom box above his head outside the home of the woman he loved blasting Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." With his latest films on the Iraq war, Cusack is standing outsid...

Klein: Players, Not Cheerleaders

Znet Article, March, 26 2008 Naomi Klein
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Sixty-four per cent of Americans tell pollsters they oppose the war, but you'd never know it from the thin turnout at recent anniversary rallies and vigils...

Scahill: The Real Story Behind Kosovo's Independence

Znet Article, February, 24 2008 Jeremy Scahill
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News Flash: The Bush administration acknowledges there is a such thing as international law...

Scahill: State to Blackwater: Nothing You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Court of Law

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Jeremy Scahill
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Apparently there is one set of rights for Blackwater mercenaries and another for the rest of us. Normally when a group of people alleged to have gunned down 17 civilians in a lawless shooting spree are questioned, investigators will tell them some...

Scahill: Iraqis Sue Blackwater for Baghdad Killings

Znet Article, October, 14 2007 Jeremy Scahill
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Iraqis Sue Blackwater for Baghdad Killings

Scahill: Will Blackwater Be Kicked Out of Iraq After Recent Bloodbath?

Znet Article, September, 30 2007 Jeremy Scahill
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Will Blackwater Be Kicked Out of Iraq After Recent Bloodbath?

Scahill: The Mercenary Revolution: Flush with Profits from the Iraq War, Military Contractors See a World of Business Opportunities.

Znet Article, August, 15 2007 Jeremy Scahill
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The Mercenary Revolution: Flush with Profits from the Iraq War, Military Contractors See a World of Business Opportunities.

Scahill: Who Will Stop the U.S. Shadow Army in Iraq?

Znet Article, April, 30 2007 Jeremy Scahill
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The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sell-out on the Iraq war. While the wrangling over the $124 billion Iraq supplemental spending bill is being headlined in the media as a "show down" or "war" with the White...

Scahill: Our Mercenaries in Iraq

Znet Article, January, 28 2007 Jeremy Scahill
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Our Mercenaries in Iraq

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