New Releases by Jeremy Scahill

Même s’ils sont l’instrument de prédilection pour les frappes dites « chirurgicales », les drones ne visent juste qu’une fois sur dix et, la plupart du temps, assassinent des personnes qui ne représentent aucune menace. De plus en plus utilisés par les militaires et les services de renseignements américains, ces engins et ceux qui les commandent à distance font non seulement de nombreuses victimes innocentes, mais ils affaiblissent le renseignement antiterroriste en attisant la colère des populations affectées par la menace de la mort venue du ciel, en plus d’empêcher la collecte d’informations, parce qu’ils tuent au lieu de capturer.

“A searing, facts-driven indictment of America’s drone wars and their implications for US democracy and foreign policy. A must-read for concerned citizens” (Library Journal, starred review) from bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept. Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination. But drone strikes often kill people other than the intended target. These deaths, which have included women and children, dwarf the number of actual combatants who have been assassinated by drones. They have generated anger toward the United States among foreign populations and have even become a recruiting tool for jihadists. The first drone strike outside a declared war zone was conducted more than twelve years ago, but it was not until May 2013 that the White House released a set of standards and procedures for conducting such strikes. However, there was no explanation of the internal process used to determine whether a suspect should be killed without being indicted or tried, even if that suspect is an American citizen. The implicit message of the Obama administration has been: Trust, but don’t verify. The Assassination Complex reveals stunning details of the government’s secretive drone warfare program based on documents supplied by a confidential source in the intelligence community. These documents make it possible to begin the long-overdue debate about the policy of drone warfare and how it is conducted. The Assassination Complex allows us to understand at last the circumstances under which the US government grants itself the right to sentence individuals to death without the established checks and balances of arrest, trial, and appeal—“readers will be left in no doubt that drone warfare affronts morality and the Constitution” (Kirkus Reviews).

Featuring contributions from Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Anand Gopal, and Owen Jones. The five essential speeches presented here are taken from The Anti-Inauguration, held on inauguration night 2017 at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. The Anti-Inauguration event and ebook are joint projects of Jacobin, Haymarket Books and Verso Books.

O livro que deu origem ao premiado documentário"Esta é a história de como os Estados Unidos adotaram o assassinato como parte essencial de sua política de segurança nacional. É também a história das consequências dessa decisão para dezenas de países do mundo inteiro e para o futuro da democracia americana. "Nesta história pouco convencional da Guerra ao Terror, o jornalista Jeremy Scahill busca o novo paradigma da política externa norte-americana: a luta longe dos campos de batalha declarados, por unidades que oficialmente não existem, em milhares de operações para as quais não há dados oficiais. Conduzindo o leitor por uma viagem vertiginosa do Afeganistão ao Paquistão, de Washington ao Iêmen e à Somália, do Reino Unido ao Iraque, na tentativa de entrevistar agentes secretos, mercenários, líderes de organizações terroristas e parentes de vítimas, Scahill revela vidas por trás das sombras e uma nova visão da guerra contemporânea a partir de histórias que um olhar desatento julgaria desconexas. Entrelaçando relatos que abrangem desde os primeiros dias do governo Bush até o segundo mandato de Obama, o autor nos apresenta os homens que comandam as operações mais secretas das forças armadas americanas e da CIA, histórias de participantes que passaram a vida incógnitos, alguns dos quais contribuíram com o livro sob a condição de não ter sua identidade revelada. O mundo sabe que a Equipe 6 dos Sea, Air, Land Teams (SEALS) e o Comando Conjunto de Operações Especiais (Joint Special Operations Command, JSOC) foram as unidades que mataram Osama Bin Laden. Este livro revelará missões até agora desconhecidas dessas mesmas forças, que nunca serão discutidas por políticos norte-americanos nem imortalizadas em filmes de Hollywood.

This enhanced edition for Nook features over thirty images, including film stills from the Oscar-nominated documentary Dirty Wars, as well as exclusive photographs of Scahill's reporting in Yemen and Somalia. This edition also features interactive color maps, as well as seven short videos that include the film trailer, clips from the film, and interviews with Scahill. In the video interviews, Scahill shares his insights on the history of drones, President Obama's hawkish foreign policies, and the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, 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. Dirty Wars follows the consequences of the declaration that “the world is a battlefield,” as Scahill uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, Scahill reports from the frontlines in this high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America's global killing machine. He goes beneath the surface of these covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective congressional oversight or public debate. And, based on unprecedented access, Scahill tells the chilling story of an American citizen marked for assassination by his own government. As US leaders draw the country deeper into conflicts across the globe, setting the world stage for enormous destabilization and blowback, Americans are not only at greater risk—we are changing as a nation. Scahill unmasks the shadow warriors who prosecute these secret wars and puts a human face on the casualties of unaccountable violence that is now official policy: victims of night raids, secret prisons, cruise missile attacks and drone strikes, and whole classes of people branded as “suspected militants.” Through his brave reporting, Scahill exposes the true nature of the dirty wars the United States government struggles to keep hidden.

"Guerras sucias" desvela la existencia de unos soldados de élite que son reclutados entre las filas de los SEAL de la Armada, la Fuerza Delta, la antigua Blackwater, y otras empresas de seguridad privada, la División de Actividades Especiales de la CIA y el Mando Conjunto de Operaciones Especiales (JSOC) y que operan en más de un centenar de países. Las fuerzas de operaciones especiales están financiadas a través de "presupuestos reservados" y llevan a cabo misiones en zonas "no reconocidas".

The New York Times bestseller and scathing expose now in Spanish for the first time.

The groundbreaking bestselling expose of the shadowy mercenary army that perpetrated horrific war crimes in America's name. On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces, subcontractors working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide, led by Erik Prince Award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to reveal the frightening new face of the U.S. military machine, and what happens when you outsource war. "A crackling expose" -- New York Times Book Review "[Scahill] is a one-man truth squad" -- Bill Moyers "[An] utterly gripping and explosive story" -- Naomi Klein, The Guardian