{"id":14726,"date":"2013-05-23T15:08:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/usa\/?p=601"},"modified":"2013-05-23T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:08:46","slug":"jeremy-scahill-dirty-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/international\/jeremy-scahill-dirty-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Scahill ; Dirty Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JEREMY SCAHILL<\/strong> is National Security Correspondent for\u00a0<em><a title=\"The Nation mag homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Nation<\/a> <\/em>magazine and is a\u00a0<a title=\"Jeremy Scahill Fellow at The Nation Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationinstitute.org\/fellows\/1186\/jeremy_scahill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow<\/a> at\u00a0<a title=\"The Nation Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationinstiute.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Nation Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DirtyWars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-602\" alt=\"DirtyWars\" src=\"http:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DirtyWars.jpg\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scahill is author of the\u00a0<em>New York Times <\/em>bestseller\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooksgroup.com\/perseus\/book_detail.jsp?isbn=156858394X\" target=\"_blank\">Blackwater: The Rise of the World&rsquo;s Most Powerful Mercenary Army<\/a> <\/em>(Nation Books, 2007). Nation Books will release Scahill&rsquo;s second book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooks.com\/perseus\/book_detail.jsp?isbn=156858671X\" target=\"_blank\">Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield<\/a><\/em>, on April 23, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He is the writer, with David Riker, and a producer of the documentary feature film,\u00a0<em>Dirty Wars<\/em>, which won the <a title=\"Cinematography Award\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sundance.org\/festival\/stories\/award-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cinematography Award for U.S. Documentary<\/a> at the Sundance Film Festival 2013. IFC Films releases <em>Dirty Wars<\/em> in theaters June 7 throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Scahill has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill is a frequent guest on a wide array of programs, appearing regularly on\u00a0<em>The Rachel Maddow Show<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Real Time with Bill Maher<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Democracy Now!.<\/em> He has also appeared on ABC World News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, BBC, al Jazeera, CNN,\u00a0<em>The NewsHour<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Bill Moyers Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scahill\u2019s work has sparked several Congressional investigations and won some of journalism\u2019s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liu.edu\/polk\" target=\"_blank\">George Polk Award<\/a>, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book\u00a0<em>Blackwater<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Scahill was named one of nine recipients of the <a href=\"http:\/\/windhamcampbell.org\">Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell<\/a> Literature Prizes at Yale University.<\/p>\n<p>Scahill\u00a0is a member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgaeast.org\" target=\"_blank\">Writers Guild of America, East<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtywars.org\/jeremy-scahill\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y_fq-20h5Sw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qUfMgkOMNME\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEREMY SCAHILL is National Security Correspondent for\u00a0The Nation magazine and is a\u00a0Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at\u00a0The Nation Institute. Scahill is author of the\u00a0New York Times bestseller\u00a0Blackwater: The Rise of the World&rsquo;s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books, 2007). Nation Books will release Scahill&rsquo;s second book,\u00a0Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, on April 23, 2013. 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