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Democracy Now!: Fri., Jan. 29, 2010

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An exclusive report from Jeremy Scahill about a nine year old boy shot in the head and killed by Blackwater in the infamous Nisour Square massacre. His father, who is suing the private military contractor, provides the most detailed eyewitness account of the massacre to date. A NATO convoy came under assault Thursday while carrying supplies through Pakistan to Afghanistan in a rare ambush inside Karachi. Quratulain Bakhteari, founding director of the Institute for Development Studies and Practices, talks about rising militancy in Pakistan.

Democracy Now!: Fri., Jan. 8, 2010

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Blackwater, the private military firm, is in a firestorm of controversy over its involvements in Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany, We join investigative journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a leading member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; after years in Guantanamo prison without charges, the future is uncertain for Yemeni detainees; HIV-positive Dutch man is among the first to visit the U.S. legally after 22-year ban. "Democracy Now!"is a daily independent newshour.

GRITtv: Blackwater's Secret War In Pakistan

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At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The Nation has found. Jeremy Scahill talks about this latest development in the story of the company that seems to pop back up in conflict zones over and over again.

GRITtv: Nov. 24, 2009

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It's not only wars that produce blowback for the US; training and funding for right-leaning groups in Latin America has been a long-standing source of resentment and anger around the world. We look back at the effects of US intervention in Latin America and connect the patterns to the current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq with Christian Parenti, Nation contributor and author of "The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror," Rev. Luis Barrios, chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies at John Jay College in New York.

Democracy Now!: Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009

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In a DN! exclusive, Jeremy Scahill discusses his new article in the Nation that reveals that the private military firm Blackwater is operating an undercover assassination and kidnapping operation in Pakistan. As UC Berkeley investigates police brutality against students protesting fee hikes, a report from Brandon Jourdan, who was embedded with students inside the occupied building last week. We join Madeline Martinez of the Oregon chapter of NORML, which runs the Cannabis Café in Portland, Ore., the first marijuana cafe.

GRITtv: DeFOXAmerica: The ACORN Witch Hunt

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Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill says of the attack on ACORN, "It's part of the broader attack on the poor of this country, the broader attack on the working people of this country, and ultimately the broader attack on democracy in this country." With this new video from Brave New Films, we look at the Republican witch hunt against ACORN's work with the poor and people of color, and the motivations behin

GRITtv: Eight Years In, U.S. Debates Afghanistan

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It might be what President Obama calls a teachable moment. On Monday, dozens of anti-war protesters were arrested outside of the White House, including Cindy Sheehan. Robert Gibbs, however, told reporters he wasn't even aware of the group's actions. One wonders whether he and the administration are aware of the fact that the majority of the public is now opposed to the war. Writer Jeremy Scahill and filmmaker Brian Palmer, Anuradha K. Bhagwati and David Swanson talk about war making and why it threatens democracy in America.

GRITtv: Jeremy Scahill: Defunding the Real Corporate Felons

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Jeremy Scahill explains why a small group of Democratic lawmakers are pushing back against efforts to cut off funding to ACORN. If ACORN is targeted for fraud and abuse of federal funds, military contractors, drug companies, and a long list of corporations that continue to receive massive federal contracts despite well documented wrong doing should be next. You can find out more in Scahill's article in this week's issue of the Nation.

GRITtv: Oct. 6, 2009

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Cassidy Friedman has made a video about Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who plunged into the healthcare debate with an editorial for the Wall Street Journal in which he declared that, "Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals." Plus all the latest news and headlines about Afghanistan, healthcare, ACORN and more.

GRITtv: Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald on the Media's Wars

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Glenn Greewald, a columnist at Salon and the author of "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics," and Jeremy Scahill, author of "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," on the battle between the independent press and the mainstream media and whether either are being watchdogs over governmental claims.

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