Jeremy Scahill
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Jeremy Scahill (born c. 1974) is an American investigative journalist with expertise on a number of global issues, most notably the recent rise of private military companies (PMCs).[citation needed] He serves as a correspondent for the U.S. radio and TV program Democracy Now!. He is also a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a frequent contributor to The Nation.[1] Scahill and colleague Amy Goodman were co-recipients of the 1998 Polk Award for their radio documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship", which investigated the Chevron Corporation's role in the killing of two Nigerian environmental activists.[2]
Scahill has reported from post-invasion Iraq; the former Yugoslavia, where he covered the 1999 NATO bombing;[3] and from post-Katrina Louisiana.[4] He has been a vocal critic of private military contractors, particularly Blackwater Worldwide, the subject of his book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.[5] The book was the focus of a two-part interview and discussion with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! in March 2007.[6] The book received numerous accolades, including the Alternet Best Book of the Year Award, a spot on the Barnes & Noble and Amazon lists of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2007, and another Polk Award.
Up until 1998, he was a regular contributor to the Catholic Worker. He campaigned vigorously against US policy towards Cuba, arguing that the Helms-Burton Act "discards ... sovereignty ... and attempts to supersede International law with US law" and "creates a legal framework authorizing financial and military support for armed subversion of a sovereign nation".[7]
[edit] References
- Scahill, Jeremy. "US Law Further Tightens Noose on Cuban People". Catholic Worker, June - July, 1997.
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Nation website
- ^ Polk Awards press release
- ^ Selves and Others
- ^ Democracy Now!
- ^ New York: Nation Books, 2007. ISBN 1560259795 (hardcover); revised and updated edition, 2008. ISBN 156858394X
- ^ part one part two
- ^ Metaphoria, August 1997, Volume 4 Nr.12, Issue 48
[edit] External links
- Jeremy Scahill's reports at The Huffington Post
- Jeremy Scahill's reports at AlterNet.org
- Jeremy Scahill's reports at The Nation
- Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater site
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, talk at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, during the recent book tour for the newly revised second edition, June 15, 2008.
- Interview about Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, online at CBC Words at Large (audio)
- Jeremy Scahill, "Bush's Shadow Army" -- from The Nation: March 15, 2007
- Radio Interview: Journalist Scahill Charts the Rise of Blackwater USA -- from NPR.org: March 19, 2007
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