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Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater
The Iraq War may have an upside, of sorts. It should allow us to take quite a few discredited policies permanently off our table of options. Preventive war. Politicized intelligence. Coalitions of the coerced. New frontiers of media manipulation. To name a few. In a new book, Lessons From Iraq: Avoiding the Next War, Institute for Policy Studies Research Fellow Miriam Pemberton and New America Foundation Fellow William D. Hartung have asked the experts to boil the lessons of the war down for the rest of us. The authors include The Three Trillion Dollar War co-authors Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, pre-war UN weapons inspector Hans Blix and National Book Award winner Frances Fitzgerald. As Barbara Ehrenreich put it: "Read this compelling set of essays and join the movement to prevent the next war." Several of the authors will be getting together to discuss these lessons, and how to make sure they are permanently learned. A reception will follow the discussion. New York University Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St. Sponsored by Foreign Policy In Focus, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
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Q&A and book signing at the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop co-sponsored by One Wisconsin Now, the Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition and Grassroots Northshore. Location: 2559 N. Downer Ave.. Contact: Scot Ross at 608-204-0677 or via e-mail.
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David Sirota will join representatives of Southeastern Wisconsin Common Ground at a newsmaker luncheon discussion of his book The Uprising. Sponsored by the Milwaukee Press Club. At the Newsroom Pub, 137 East Wells Street. Contact: Steve Jagler at 414-336-7116 or via e-mail.
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LListen to Nation Institute Fellow Jeremy Scahill discuss his latest book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. On September 16, 2007, Blackwater Worldwide mercenaries opened fire in Baghdad's Nisour Square, killing seventeen Iraqi civilians, among them women and children. Scahill's book--now in a new, fully revised and updated paperback edition--reveals the explosive story of the company that has become the new face of the US war machine. Jeremy Scahill is a Polk Award-winning investigative journalist and has reported extensively from Iraq, the former Yugoslavia and Nigeria. He is a frequent contributor to The Nation, a correspondent for the national radio show Democracy Now! and currently a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Capitol Theater, 206 5th Avenue SE. Additional information via e-mail or call 360-867-6894. Co-sponsored by KAOS Community Radio, Orca Books and the Olympia Film Society.
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