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Jeremy Scahill

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Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!. You can read his blog on TheNation.com here.

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How US proxy wars helped create a militant Islamist threat.

Renditions, an underground prison and a new CIA base are elements of an intensifying US war, according to a Nation investigation in Mogadishu.

Meet the Special Operations unit that killed Osama bin Laden.

If President Saleh falls, the US will have lost a pliant partner in its “global war on terror.”

The latest WikiLeaks dump has corroborated, in part, what sources recently told The Nation about covert military actions in over seventy-five countries.

How brutal raids are sabotaging the political strategy the US claims to support in Afghanistan.

Internal documents reveal the firm's clandestine work for multinationals and governments.

There was a brief moment when it seemed the evidence of civilian killings, military cover ups and widespread lack of accountability contained in the WikiLeaks documents would spark a genuine inquiry into US conduct in Afghanistan.

Five Blackwater officials have been indicted on federal weapons violations. Given the company's track record, the charges are small change.

The Obama administration's decision to authorize the assassination of a US citizen has been met with silence from most Democrats.

Blogs

“The implications of allowing a US citizen to assemble a legion in any foreign country, and especially in a combustible region like...
Blackwater's infamous founder is building a mercenary army in the United Arab Emirates.
Some call them “Murder, Incorporated.” Others say they're America's counterterrorism ”ace in the hole.” JSOC is the...
As President Saleh’s corrupt regime teeters on the brink of collapse, the US belatedly backs reform in Yemen.
Former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz has tried to use Sharia law to fight lawsuits alleging corporate misconduct that led to...
Now will Obama actively encourage cable networks to end Bush administration–inspired censorship of the network?
 A confidential cable, released by Wikileaks, from the US embassies in Afghanistan and Pakistan reveals that US diplomats were asked...
Secret cables from US officials in Pakistan confirm that elite US Special Operations Forces have engaged in offensive operations in...