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Scahill is author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books, 2007). Nation Books will released Scahill’s second book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, on April 23, 2013.

< Dirty Wars: Terror Begets Terror | Jeremy Scahill Breaks the Set – intro interview on RT (26m) “we have a bankrupt media culture when it comes to covering the impact of our wars”

< Hear Jeremy Scahill speak about his acclaimed new book, Dirty Wars, on Sunday, April 28, 2013 at NJ Peace Action’s 56th

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Scahill: Die NSA ist nicht ein Haufen Computernerds, die in Fort Meade herumsitzen und Telefonate abhören. Die NSA ist ein massives Biest von einer Organisation, die eine von Grund auf militärische Mission hat. Wer denkt, das seien nur Geeks mit Kopfhörern, versteht nicht, wie der Sicherheitsapparat der USA funktioniert.
Obama will weg von den großen Militäreinsätzen. Aber er versucht, Strukturen zu schaffen, die gezielte Tötungsmissionen als zentrales Element der amerikanischen Politik etablieren. In gewisser Hinsicht denke ich, das könnte auf lange Sicht mehr Schaden anrichten.

Secrets of the Dirty Wars: What Jeremy Scahill Doesn’t Tell You

critic by James Corbett, June 18, 2013
Some may argue that this history of the dirty wars, while important, is not essential to the understanding of the modern day operations. After all, the current War on Terror dirty war is being led by different people in a different stage of history. But Valentine’s charge is a serious one; either Scahill is deliberately dumbing down the movie—focusing on interminable close-ups of himself and his reactions, using emotional manipulation to “grip” the audience, pretending to not know about the existence of JSOC in order to dramatize his “discovery” for the audience—or, worse yet, he genuinely doesn’t know this history, and the characters behind it. Either way, as the film’s critics note, the CIA—the organization that has been the lynchpin of all such operations in the past and has a documented history of military assets for plausible deniability in denying involvement in such actions—gets off scot-free in this 90 minute “expose” of the war on terror, only being mentioned once or twice, in passing, with excessive focus on JSOC and General William McCraven.
Whether the CIA designed this type of limited hangout or not, it plays into their hands to have a supposedly daring documentarian “exposing” the covert war on terror without identifying the parties and people behind it. Simultaneously, it works out well for Scahill and his cohorts, who get to bask in the mainstream attention that this supposedly taboo subject is—for some reason—receiving.

< film review: Dirty Wars and Self-indulgence by Douglas Valentine / June 7th, 2013
Let me begin with some background not covered in the film. Dirty War derives from La Sale Guerre, the term the French applied to their counter-terror campaign in Algeria, circa 1954-1961. Algeria wanted independence, and France resisted.
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Economic warfare – strangling nations like Cuba, Iraq and Iran in Medieval fashion – is a type of Dirty Warfare beloved by the Great White Fathers who control the world’s finances. Though no less deadly than atomic bombs, or firebombing Dresden, it is easier to sell to the bourgeoisie.
You’ll hear no mention of this in Scahill’s film, nor will you hear any references to Phil Agee, or the countless others who have explained Dirty War to each generation of Americans since World War Two.
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By 1962, as the US expanded its Dirty Wars in the Far East and South America, the military replaced its Office of Special Operations with an up-dated Special Assistant for Counter-insurgency and Special Activities (SACSA). SACSA assigned unconventional warfare forces to the CIA and regular army commanders, who initially resisted. […] (also on counterpunch
The development of psychological warfare and special operations is explained in Michael McClintock’s Secret Warriors (1988).
JSOC’s mission, conducted on the Phoenix model with the CIA, is identifying and destroying terrorists and terror cells worldwide. Paramilitary personnel are often exchanged between JSOC and CIA.
By the early 1980s, CIA and military veterans of the Phoenix program were running counter-insurgency and counter-terror ops worldwide.

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