jeremy scahill – dirty wars

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michael hastings remembered.

what happens to us when we finally see what’s hidden in plain sight..

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Jeremy Scahill Dirty Wars Charlie Rose

Published on Jun 28, 2013

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Noam Chomsky (2013) Full Discussion with Jeremy Scahill and Amy Goodman

Published on May 24, 2013

[18-22 min Stanley McChrystal]

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book links to amazon

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may 2013:

How Do You Surrender To A Drone?

Published on May 26, 2013

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may 2013:

Authors@Google

yeah.

watch the documentary.

read the book.

stuff we should know… wake up about…

14:52 – again the bad side of the starfish

16:30 – you say al qaeda is terrorism, your drones are terrorism..

43 – we will look back and realize we were asleep at the wheel…

44 – if we could just see people as human beings.. it would be hard for these policies to continue

45 – rush to judgments always…

49 – adopt a story of someone.. of where it went wrong.. empathy – why we don’t want this to happen ever again..

1:04 – the real heroes are not known..

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on the tonight show:

3 rules:

1. journalists should those in power accountable, whether demo or repub

2. give voice to the voiceless

3. provide american public with info they can use to make informed decisions

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first look media: the intercept

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interview with sarah morrison nov 2013:

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nov 2013 interview via huffpo:

“Clinton was President, and the US was waging war through economic sanctions in Iraq. I travelled to all these hospitals and it was like visiting death row for infants. The Iraqi people were essentially being punished for not overthrowing Saddam Hussein, and I had a sense that what I wanted to do with my life was tell the story of people that were voiceless.”

 Ultimately, there is an epic battle between large corporations and ordinary people. Part of what I’m trying to do is unmask that conflict, but I have no illusions about how difficult that is.

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feb 2014:

the book isn’t based on the film, the film isn’t based on the book.. just happened at same time.. we didn’t go to make a film… 

name explained starting at 12 min – paraphrase – war has always been dirty.. but since obama – the dirty-ness of it is trying to get legalized.. ok’d…. etc..

very end – Rick shares:

the people let us film because they believed if americans saw what was really going on – they would help stop it.. so their trust in americans.. even after what americans had done to them.. inspired us..

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oct 2014:

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/3/jeremy_scahill_on_obamas_orwellian_war

“The United States, through its policies, created the very threat that it claims to be fighting now,” explains journalist Jeremy Scahill. “And in continuing this policy, what President Obama is doing is embracing the very lies that made the Cheney-Bush Iraq War possible.”

“This is an epic formula for blowback.”

48 min – guilty until proven innocent – ie: if killed in strike assumed part of enemy until proven otherwise

51 min – lockheed martin is making a killing off the killing.. the war industry is the greatest beneficiary off this policy

52 min – this is inspired by what we did (ie: orange suits, waterboarded)

they’ve figured out an algorithm that keeps their civilian death rate at 0

so empire-ish – money behind so much

bush/clinton – monarchy ish

58 min – until we as a society stop cutting off who’s going to be held responsible at the lowest ranking level.. nothing is going to change..

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nytimes oct 2014:

The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?smid=tw-share

“We would have certainly included this case if we had known about it,” he said, “and not just for obvious medical reasons but because here was exactly the kind of wounds at the very heart of the reason the government sent our nation to war.”

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jan 2015

Charlie Hebdo: This Attack Was Nothing To Do With Free Speech — It Was About War

https://medium.com/@asgharbukhari/charlie-hebdo-this-attack-was-nothing-to-do-with-free-speech-it-was-about-war-26aff1c3e998

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jan 2015 posted on fb by democracy now:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/12/the-paris-mystery/

Jeremy Scahill appeared on Democracy Now! today (watch here http://bit.ly/1C9V1OH and here http://bit.ly/14rPPdz) and posted a new piece at The Intercept (read here: http://bit.ly/14MLhzC) on the attacks in Paris, possible links to Yemen and Anwar al-Awlaki, and the “circus of hypocrisy” of having world leaders like Bibi and Sisi lead a march in defense of free expression.

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/12/circus_of_hypocrisy_jeremy_scahill_on

20 min – rather than leaders part of the march – should have sent journalists they had persecuted

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/12/jeremy_scahill_on_paris_attacks_the

Jeremy tells the background story of Awlaki

52 min – the only way to we’re going to affectively confront this kind of terrorism is to take away the justification or motivation… a lot of these people.. something happened in their lives.. similar to what happens to school shootings here. …. who catches you when you fall. .. people are looking for some kind of greater meaning.. with what we’ve done.. we have projected a message that we are at war with religion… if we want to confront this.. we have to understand our role in legitimizing it

54 min – boko haram

57 min – the day of the french shooting, aqap attacked and killed 30 people in sana

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jan 2015:

terror analysts profit from fear

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/scahill-cable-news-terror-analysts-profit-from-fear/

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may 2015

somolia al shabaab

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/19/somalia-al-shabaab-foreign-fighter-cia/

Rep. Ellison compares the current U.S. government approach to radicalized Westerners like Ibrahim who join Shabaab to the U.S. war on drugs in its shortsightedness. “In the middle of the drug war, even people who questioned it knew that drugs hurt people, drugs are bad, drugs are not healthy. But do we really want to lock up people for it or do we want to introduce some treatment options here?” He adds, “Same thing now with this. There’s no doubt that all these groups, like al Shabaab, Boko Haram, ISIS and all the rest are horrible, malevolent groups, but how do we defeat them? Is just gunning them down and using military and prison against them going to ultimately defeat them? Or maybe we have to find a way to defeat and undermine the ideology itself.”

Toward this end, circulating stories like Ibrahim’s would be extremely useful, he believes. “The American people don’t know enough about the mindset of anybody who would be attracted to a terrorist reality. We just think that there are bad people and there are good people,” says Ellison. “The truth is there are kids that hate Gitmo, that hate drones, they don’t like our national foreign policy, that are highly critical of it, but that doesn’t make them a terrorist.”

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The people that have been attracted to Shabaab have realized that the kind of ideology that they have seen and the actions of the leadership of al Shabaab is contradictory to what they were expecting,” Omar told The Intercept. “These are young kids who have been brainwashed. I think if they come to their senses, I think people need to be given a second chance, amnesty.”

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and..

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@jeremyscahill

Since we learned Dan Berrigan passed yesterday, my house has been filled with Dan’s writing, his voice & this song: youtube.com/watch?v=rxWaV_…

better the files than the bodies of children

i had no right before the love of you

i went for peace they dropped their bombs.. right where my govt knew i would be

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may 2016 – the assassination complex

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/3/the_assassination_complex_jeremy_scahill_glenn

35 min – whoa… everyone  killed by drones … labeled not civilian until proven not terrorist – jeremy

41 min – snowden’s writing

Just amazing how people blame the tiny % of people who vote 3rd party before they ever factor in the awful flaws of their chosen candidate.

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