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Jeremy Scahill is one of the three founding editors of The Intercept. He is an investigative reporter, war correspondent, and author of the international bestselling books Dirty Wars and Blackwater. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award for foreign reporting and for Blackwater. afficher plus Scahill is a producer and writer of the award-wining film Dirty Wars, which was nominated for an Academy Award. The Intercept, a digital magazine founded by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill, is dedicated to producing fearless, adversarial journalism. The Intercept is a publication of First Look Media, which was launched in 2013 by eBay founded and philanthropist pierre Omidyar. afficher moins

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Crédit image: English: American journalist Jeremy Scahill giving a lecture at Sacramento City College in Sacramento, California, United States. Photo taken with a Sony DSLR-A100 digital camera.

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This is by any measure one of the high spots of investigative journalism over the past decade; it is comprehensive in every sense: exposition, narrative, and documentation, and Jeremy Scahill is a solid journalistic prose stylist. You won't find, I suspect, a more exhaustive study of private mercenary armies, their role in the overall corporate defense contracting infrastructure, or the threat they pose to our democratic republic. At the time of this book's publication, I saw Jeremy Scahill interviewed on one news program or another several times, and each time his interlocuter had to ask why organizations like Blackwater threaten democracy. The strength of this book--and Mr. Scahill as a writer--rests in the fact that while it provides you facts, it never presents conclusions. The facts themselves perform that task, which is what we ought to expect from our best journalists. Jeremy Scahill joins their ranks with this book.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Mark_Feltskog | 31 autres critiques | Dec 23, 2023 |
better than his book on Blackwater, but still, such a superficial treatment, even basic things not covered, like military refusal to obey order to kill American citizens without trial, how then it was done, and obvious Al Qaeda basics on Awlaki and Samir Khan...very annoying, not sure why he writes such 1/2 stories....even so, at least he gives some exposure to the US assassination of her own citizens and names names, even some of the few who spoke out against it (Dennis Kucinich, for ex)
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ptimes | 19 autres critiques | Dec 14, 2023 |
Facts are great. Accompanying opinions with said facts, not so much.
 
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atrillox | 31 autres critiques | Nov 27, 2023 |

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