Comments on: The Myth of Humanitarian Intervention, video http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/07/04/the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention-video/ My diary on peace and wars, arts, sciences, politics, the fight for economic and social justice, the environment, and more. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:29:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Administrator http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/07/04/the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention-video/#comment-4167 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:30:37 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/07/04/the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention-video/#comment-4167 Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army Fully Revised and Updated! By Jeremy Scahill On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide. This is the explosive story of a company that rose a decade ago from Moyock, North Carolina, to become one of the most powerful players in the "War on Terror." In his gripping bestseller, award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to expose Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine. Winner of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism Winner of the George Polk Book Award Soft cover, 550 pp, notes, index Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army

Fully Revised and Updated!

By Jeremy Scahill

On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad’s Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled “Baghdad’s Bloody Sunday,” was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide.

This is the explosive story of a company that rose a decade ago from Moyock, North Carolina, to become one of the most powerful players in the “War on Terror.” In his gripping bestseller, award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to expose Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine.

Winner of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism
Winner of the George Polk Book Award

Soft cover, 550 pp, notes, index

]]> by: Administrator http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/07/04/the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention-video/#comment-4146 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:36:42 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/07/04/the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention-video/#comment-4146 See also <a href="http://leninology.blogspot.com/2008/07/reviewed-ergo-sum.html">here</a> on Lenin's Tomb. See also here on Lenin’s Tomb.

]]> by: Administrator http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/07/04/the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention-video/#comment-4125 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:10:48 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/07/04/the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention-video/#comment-4125 Hi jon, thanks, and all the best for your blog which is included in my RSS files. The Lenin's Tomb article on intervention is <a href="http://leninology.blogspot.com/2008/07/intervention.html">here</a>. Hi jon, thanks, and all the best for your blog which is included in my RSS files. The Lenin’s Tomb article on intervention is here.

]]> by: Jon http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/07/04/the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention-video/#comment-4123 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:56:09 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/07/04/the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention-video/#comment-4123 Hi Kitty, there was an excellent piece on intervention at Lenin's tomb. It was posted earlier this week. Hi Kitty, there was an excellent piece on intervention at Lenin’s tomb. It was posted earlier this week.

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