Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield Official Documentary Trailer
Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield Book by Jeremy Scahill
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Covert Conflicts, Decried In ‘Dirty Wars’ After the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011, the soldiers of the paramilitary force JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) who carried out the operation were lionized as national heroes. They earned more ambivalent treatment in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. And according to Dirty Wars, a documentary based on a book by investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, their shadowy outfit has pretty much taken over America’s global war on terrorism — and in flagrantly unconstitutional ways, he claims.
Dirty Wars, Documentary on U.S. Covert Warfare Abroad, Wins Sundance Cinematography Award 2013-01-13 The documentary “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield” follows investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill to Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen as he chases down the hidden truth behind America’s expanding covert wars, focusing on the Obama administration’s increasing use of armed drones and secretive units including the Joint Special Operations Command. On Saturday, the film’s director, Richard Rowley, was awarded the Sundance Film Festival prize for best cinematography in a U.S. documentary, honored for “elevating the art of observational cinema through sophisticated lensing and an electric-color palette.” Accepting the award, Rowley said: “Almost three years ago, when Jeremy and I knocked on a door in Gardez in rural Afghanistan, we were the first Americans that a family there had seen since Americans kicked their door in and killed half their family. And they invited us in, and they shared the most difficult story of their lifetime with us, because we promised them we’d do everything we could to make their story heard in America.”
Jeremy Scahill on “Dirty Wars” and U.S. National Security: VICE Podcast 009 We speak with Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for “The Nation,” whose work covering America’s special operations [forces] and targeted killings in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia is chronicled in the recently released documentary, “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.” As the U.S. continues to expand its use of covert counterterrorism measures worldwide, Scahill argues that far from making Americans safer, U.S. covert counterterrorism measures are in fact undermining national security.
Jeremy Scahill – Dirty Wars: Inside America’s Covert Wars – Socialism 2013 Chicago JEREMY SCAHILL: Writer and producer of the documentary Dirty Wars. Author of Dirty Wars: The world is a battlefield and Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. http://www.dirtywars.org http://www.dirtywars.org/the-book
The Nation at The New School – Jeremy Scahill on Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield In Scahill’s newest book, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield (Nation Books, April 2013), he takes us inside America’s new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture, or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies. Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA’s Special Activities Division, and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries. Funded through “black budgets,” Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals, and direct drone, AC-130 and cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, President Barack Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy.
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