Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill
Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill
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Dirty Wars
The World Is a Battlefield

Author: Jeremy Scahill

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 24 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/23/2013


Synopsis

In this groundbreaking book of new reportage, sure to stir a global debate, journalist Jeremy Scahillauthor of the acclaimed international bestsellerBlackwatertakes us into the heart of the War on Terrors most dangerous battlefields as he chases down the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond, Scahill speaks to the CIA agents, mercenaries, and elite Special Operations Forces operators who populate the dark side of American war-fighting. He goes deep into al Qaedaheld territory in Yemen and walks the streets of Mogadishu with CIA-backed warlords. We also meet the survivors of US night raids and drone strikesincluding families of US citizens targeted for assassination by their own governmentwho reveal the human consequences of the dirty wars the United States struggles to keep hidden. Written in a gripping, action-packed narrative nonfiction style,Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefieldreveals that, despite his pledge to bring accountability to US wars and to end Bush-era abuses, President Barack Obama has kept in place many of the most dangerous and secret programs that thrived under his predecessor. In stunning detail, Scahill exposes how Obama has escalated these secret US wars and has built up an elite secret US military unit that answers to no one but the president himself. Scahill reveals the existence of previously unreported secret prisons, kidnappings, assassinations, and cover-ups of covert operations gone terribly wrong. In this remarkable story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, journalist Jeremy Scahill documents the new paradigm of American war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not officially exist, in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly acknowledged. The devastating picture that emerges inDirty Warsis of a secret US killing machine that has grown more powerful than whatever president happens to reside in the White House. Scahill argues that far from keeping the United Statesand the worldsafe from terrorism, these covert American wars ensure that the terror will grow and spread.

About Jeremy Scahill

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: The World Is a Battlefield and Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Scahill has served as the national security correspondent for The Nation and Democracy Now! and was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award. Scahill is a producer and writer of the award-winning film Dirty Wars, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Slim on April 23, 2013

"Dirty Wars" has a somewhat different tone that Scahil's book on Blackwater. It is a rigorous history of un-declared and largely un-reported violence in many countries around the world by various parts of the United States government since Sept 11th. There is,as one might expect, a sub-text of great......more

Goodreads review by Elmwoodblues on July 20, 2013

When I was very nearly finished with this book I recommended it to a friend whom I consider quite conservative; I cautioned him that the read may appear a bit 'liberal' for his tastes. Somehow, an honest assessment of our military killing civilians in certain parts of the world has come to be seen......more

Goodreads review by Leftbanker on January 19, 2016

Even if you don’t like the work Scahill does (and I do) you must admit that he is one of the few people out there doing actual journalism instead of sitting in a TV studio spewing out opinions. We have made the news such an entertainment industry that most people don’t know the difference between ne......more

Goodreads review by David on May 26, 2013

Jeremy Scahill has written here what is likely the most comprehensive reference book on the U.S.'s foreign policy post-9/11, focusing mostly on the country's covert and clandestine affairs. While he does cover the history of the CIA and other earlier issues, he spends most of his time reporting on h......more

Goodreads review by Ryan Gilbert on July 14, 2013

It quickly becomes obvious as to where the author stands with his view on war, and what he thinks of the United States when it comes to geopolitics. It's hard to discern fact from fiction, because the author integrates so much of his own hyperbole with hard facts, and first person testimony, it beco......more