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Jeremy ScahillPuffin Foundation Writing FellowBefore coming to The Nation Institute, Scahill was a longtime senior producer and correspondent for the nationally-syndicated radio and TV show Democracy Now! and he remains a frequent contributor to the program. He has reported extensively from Iraq through both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Scahill reported from Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO bombing and spent years covering the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic's government. He has also reported from Nigeria, where he and colleague Amy Goodman exposed the role of the Chevron oil corporation in the killing of protesting villagers in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Traveling around the hurricane zone in the wake of Katrina in September 2005, Scahill exposed the presence of Blackwater mercenaries in New Orleans. 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, numerous Project Censored Awards and the Izzy Award, named after the muckraking journalist I.F. Stone. He was among the few 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 Golden Reel for "Best National Radio News Story" of 2002. He also worked in 2000 as a producer for Michael Moore's TV series The Awful Truth on the Bravo network. Scahill has reported for The Times of London, the Sunday Telegraph, the BBC and public radio. He has also written for The Los Angeles Times, Z Magazine, In These Times, The Progressive, among others, as well as on many independent media websites. Scahill's latest book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, thoroughly revised and updated to include the Nisour Square massacre, was released in paperback edition this June.
Selected Articles and Appearances: Blackwater Officials Indicted for Weapons Violations The Expanding US War in Pakistan Jeremy Scahill on Rachel Maddow Blackwater's Bright Future True Crimes: The Untold Story Behind the Devastation of Iraq Jeremy Scahill on Real Time with Bill Maher
Jeremy Scahill on the "Corporate Pillaging and Military Contractors" panel See the second part and third part of Scahill's testimony. Samantha Power v. Jeremy Scahill Bill Moyers Journal: Ask Jeremy Scahill For the rest of Jeremy Scahill's articles for The Nation, click here.
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The Great American StickupHow Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
"One of the best reporters of our time."—Joan Didion In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. Check out Scheer's book tour! MoreMarfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa: Politics and Culture of the Borderundef 0 | Marfa, Texas See acclaimed Nation Books authors Charles Bowden and Mark Danner speak at Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.
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