Dirty Wars: The world is a battlefield Main Edition
Author(s): Jeremy Scahill (Author)
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Publication Date: 3 April 2014
Edition: Main
Language: English
Print length: 688 pages
ISBN-10: 1846688515
ISBN-13: 9781846688515
Book Description
In this story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, Jeremy Scahill exposes America’s new approach to war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not officially exist, in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly acknowledged.
From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, Scahill speaks to the CIA agents, mercenaries and elite Special Operations Forces operators. He goes deep into al Qaeda-held territory in Yemen and walks the streets of Mogadishu with CIA-backed warlords. We also meet the survivors of night raids and drone strikes – including families of US citizens targeted for assassination by their own government – who reveal the shocking human consequences of the dirty wars the United States struggle to keep hidden.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A campaigning voice like Scahill’s is indispensable ― London Review of Books
There is no journalist in America who has exposed the truth about US government militarism more bravely, more relentlessly and more valuably than Jeremy Scahill.
Dirty Wars is highly gripping and dramatic, and of unparalleled importance in understanding the destruction being sown in our name. ― Guardian
Book Description
Shocking expose of America’s hidden dirty wars – Now an Oscar nominated documentary
About the Author
Jeremy Scahill is an unembedded, international journalist. He has reported extensively from Iraq through both the Clinton and Bush administrations. He reported from Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO bombing and spent years covering the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic’s government and the rise of a neoliberal regime backed by the United States. He has also reported from Nigeria, where he and colleague Amy Goodman exposed the role of the Chevron oil corporation in the massacre of protesting villagers in the Niger Delta. Traveling around the hurricane zone in the wake of Katrina, Scahill exposed the presence of Blackwater mercenaries in New Orleans and his reporting sparked a Congressional inquiry and an internal Department of Homeland Security investigation. Scahill has won numerous awards, including the prestigious George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting and numerous Project Censored Awards. He was among the only western reporters to gain access to the Abu Ghraib prison when Saddam Hussein was in power and his story on the emptying of that prison won a (US) Golden Reel for “Best National Radio News Story” of 2002. Blackwater is his first book.
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