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Jeremy Scahill comes to Google to talk about his new book, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield. In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater: The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture, or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies. Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA's Special Activities Division, and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries. Funded through "black budgets," Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals, and direct drone, AC-130, and cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, President Barack Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy. Dirty Wars follows the consequences of the declaration that "the world is a battlefield," as Scahill uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond, Scahill reports from the frontlines in this high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America's global killing machine. He goes beneath the surface of America's covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective congressional oversight or public debate. And, based on unprecedented access, Scahill tells the story of an American citizen marked for assassination by his own government.As US leaders draw the country deeper into conflicts across the globe, setting the world stage for enormous destabilization and blowback, Americans are not only at greater risk—we are changing as a nation. Scahill unmasks the shadow warriors who prosecute these secret wars and puts a human face on the casualties of unaccountable violence that is now official policy: victims of night raids, secret prisons cruise missile attacks and drone strikes, and whole classes of people branded as "suspected militants." Through his reporting, he exposes the true nature of the dirty wars the United States government struggles to keep hidden. About the Author: Jeremy Scahill is National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute.He is the writer, with David Riker, and a producer of the documentary feature film, Dirty Wars, which won the Cinematography Award for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2013. IFC Films releases Dirty Wars in theaters June 7, 2013 throughout the United States. Scahill has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill is a frequent guest on a wide array of programs, appearing regularly on The Rachel Maddow Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Democracy Now!. He has also appeared on ABC World News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, BBC, al Jazeera, CNN, The NewsHour, and Bill Moyers Journal. Scahill's work has sparked several Congressional investigations and won some of journalism's highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book Blackwater. In 2013, Scahill was named one of nine recipients of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
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The US is the only and biggest terrorist state on this planet. If I could get my hands on nukes I'd level the whole of North America, the world would be a much better place without you scumbags!
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HEs an ANTI white COCKSUCKER
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hes an anti white COCKSUCKER....hes a scumbag
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Excellent.
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lower the prices
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This is one of the most effective speech Scahill has given, because you get the facts but you also get to understand what the human dimension of this all is. Thanks for posting!
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"If I see Thomas Friedman quote one more time his taxi driver [or] his concierge, I'm gonna go shave his mustache myself" - Jeremy Scahill
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its ironic that this conversation is hosted by Google. One, of the handful of companies involved in the PRISM scandal exposed by Edward Snowden...
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How come he can speak out & tell the world the whole truth about the U.S. Gov't secret tactics & covert ops, but Edward Snowden can't ???!!!
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9.11 happened BEFORE the US spent decades slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent Middle Easterners (ie. Muslims), assassinated democratically elected leaders, and violently imposed it's will on people whose sole crime is to be living in an oil rich region of the world? WOW!!! My God, it's scary how uninformed some Americans are! You might want to read some history and get your news from sources other than the imbeciles who truly believe 9.11 was people who "hate us for our freedom"
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The US has been proping up monsters and blocking real reform in most of the world since ww2. Look at South America, the US raped that continent for decades with CIA trained death squads, overthrowing elected leaders when they say no to the Washington concensus and try to help their own people with profits from oil etc.
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It's so rare to find such a sharp intellect, such a beautiful heart, such an accumulation of knowledge and experiences, such courageous actions and such balanced emotions. What an achievement!
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5 sheeple disliked this video. Johnny Mexica Fashion and Tattoo Design love Google talks. Thanks for uploading this valuable insight.
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By Delusional are you referring to yourself? You make extraordinary jumps in logic pretty much every other sentence. Your post is barely coherent.
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One of finest investigative journalists around. Linked on Sprawler: sprawler.tumblr.com
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@1:38
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Impressive invite
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Furthermore he's working under the delusion that you can win over people who are delusional, the people judging drone stikes as a horrible thing are the same people who have a massively distorted view of history, where the cia and or the jews were behind 9/11. You aren't going to get a fair shake from such people, and its foolish to pretend you are going to, there were no drones before 9/11. Jeremy needs to talk about this because its far easier than talking about the problem of religion.
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Meh, it just boils down to his misguided idea that these people would not be our enemies if we had just been nicer to them or appeased them somehow, its funny we are back to that delusion when its clear 9/11 and the rest happened long before any recent "grievances" which are used as the excuses, there are always excuses for them, thats the problem, and thats what he's not seeing.
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That first sentence is poorly written. I am in no way writing that the drone policy is inherently American, or an example of Liberty, though perhaps there could be a very good argument that the drone strikes are inherently American.