Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater: Leaving Iraq, Chasing Pirates?

• Video: Blackwater's Youngest Victim

  Blackwater

  Jeremy Scahill: On September 16, 2007, Blackwater employees killed at least 14 Iraqis in the infamous Nisour Square massacre. The youngest victim was nine-year-old Ali Kinani. In this exclusive interview, produced for Democracy Now by The Nation's Jeremy Scahill and Richard Rowley of Big Noise Films, Ali's father Mohammed talks about his son, the shootings, and his struggle to win justice.

• Blackwater's Youngest Victim

  Blackwater

  Jeremy Scahill: Nine-year-old Ali Kinani died from a gunshot wound to the head in the Nisour Square massacre. His father may be the one man standing between Blackwater and total impunity.

• Noted.

  Blackwater

  Robert Gates admits that Blackwater is in Pakistan; Air America signs off.

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  Energy

  Brett Story: The Nation's Christian Parenti explains how the growing industry of wind turbines can reduce harmful pollution and ultimately wean China off its coal addiction.

• 'Drop the Rock': Repeal Unfair Drug Laws

  Drug Policy/Drug War

  Brett Story: The change in leadership at the New York state level seems poised to make a dramatic change to the state's Rockefeller Drug Laws.

• Joseph Stiglitz on the Economic Meltdown

  U.S. Economy

  Brett Story: Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains what drove the US economy off a cliff and what steps need to be taken to rectify the situation.