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"Dirty Wars" book talk w/ journalist Jeremy Scahill
The Sanctuary for Independent Media
Troy, NY
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"Dirty Wars" book talk w/ journalist Jeremy Scahill
"Scahill is a one-man truth squad." Bill Moyers

Jeremy Scahill is National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute.

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 released Scahill's second book, "Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield," on April 23, 2013.

He is the writer, with David Riker, and a producer of the documentary feature film, Dirty Wars, which won the Cinematography Award for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2013. IFC Films releases Dirty Wars in theaters June 7 throughout the United States. Note: The film will NOT be screened at tonight's event.

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 The Rachel Maddow Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Democracy Now!. He has also appeared on ABC World News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, BBC, al Jazeera, CNN, The NewsHour, and Bill Moyers Journal.

Scahill's work has sparked several Congressional investigations and won some of journalism's highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book "Blackwater."

In 2013, Scahill was named one of nine recipients of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.

Scahill is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East.

Location

The Sanctuary for Independent Media (View)
3361 6th Avenue
Troy, NY 12180
United States

Categories

Other > Political

Kid Friendly: Yes!
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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Owner: The Sanctuary for Independent Media
On BPT Since: May 10, 2008
 
The Sanctuary for Independent Media
www.mediasanctuary.org/nod...


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