Best Selling Books by Jeremy Scahill

Explores the private security company Blackwater USA, including the background of its founder, its relationship with the United States government, and its role in the Iraq War, the cleanup of Hurricane Katrina, and the War on Terror.

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.

A reveal of the government''s secret drone warfare program.

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.

"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".

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.

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

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.

Jeremy Scahill erzählt in dieser packenden investigativen Reportage, wie es dazu kam, dass Mord zu einem zentralen Instrument der U.S.-Sicherheitspolitik geworden ist, und welche Konsequenzen diese Entscheidung hat – für unzählige Menschen in den unterschiedlichsten Ländern und für die Zukunft der amerikanischen Demokratie. In Afghanistan und Pakistan, Jemen, Somalia und anderen Ländern interviewte Scahill CIA-Agenten, Söldner und Spezialkräfte der US-Army. Er begab sich tief in das von Al-Qaida gehaltene Territorium im Jemen, traf von der CIA protegierte Warlords in Mogadischu und sprach mit den zivilen Opfern der Einsätze amerikanischer Spezialkommandos und Drohnenattacken, die die Vereinigten Staaten lieber geheim halten wollen. In dieser bedrohlichen Geschichte von der Front der unerklärten Kriege dokumentiert Jeremy Scahill das neue Paradigma der amerikanischen Kriegsführung: Gekämpft wird überall, von Spezialkräften, die offiziell gar nicht existieren, aber weltweit unzählige Einsätze durchführen, die nie ans Licht der Öffentlichkeit geraten. Scahill enthüllt das erschreckende Bild einer geheimen U.S.-Mordmaschinerie, die mächtiger geworden ist als jeder Präsident, der ins Weiße Haus einzieht. Und er zeigt, dass diese verdeckten amerikanischen Kriege, anstatt die USA – und die Welt – vor dem Terror zu schützen, dazu führen, dass der Terror wachsen und sich weiter ausbreiten wird.