Jeremy Scahill is kicking butt on Maher tonight about Black Water.

[EFerrari]

He's one of Amy Goodman's proteges and tonight, no one else on the panel could keep up with him. And his grasp of our foreign policy is GLOBAL, just like Amy's is.

Watch the show to see him if nothing else. Todd and Leno were stymied. lol

:woohoo:

[devilgrrl]

1. He stuck it to Chuck Todd too!

Telling him that the media isn't covering Afghanistan, etc... awesome!

[EFerrari]

2. He was so ready to do that.

:rofl:

Leno looks like hell, btw. Worried or ill or something.

[Fuzz]

9. Leno just doesn't want to rurn off 'middle America'. He sold his sould 20 years ago.

Fuck him.

[EFerrari]

13. He used to be a good stand up. Tonight he looked pale

and tired.

[babylonsister]

3. Schakowsky is under the radar, but has been paying attention for

awhile.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) is drafting legislation to ban all mercenaries

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1998372

[EFerrari]

4. She was also great! I don't think I've ever heard her speak

about this before.

[PearliePoo2]

7. I'll read that link..thanks......man this is good news

in the meantime...WTF is this administration doing keeping Blackwater or XE or whatever the fuck they are called still on the payroll? :mad:

[orleans]

21. good point--i've been wondering about that for some time now. n/t

[tularetom]

5. He had Chucky Toadd in extremely defensive mode didn't he?

Chucky had a bit of a hissy fit.

[EFerrari]

6. Yep. Toad Boy started attacking Jeremy because he had no argument.

lol

[Fuzz]

10. Yeah, "Settle down, you don't know how the real news business works boy" tone.

Fuck him too. ;)

[sabrina 1]

8. I love Jeremy Scahill. He's been reporting on

Blackwater for a long time. I have not read his book yet, but it's on my list. Thanks for the info and good for Amy for keeping on top of this story.

K&R for real news from a real investigative reporter.

[Shallah Kali]

15. Several chapters of Scahill's book is up on Google Books - link

http://books.google.com/books?id=_6f_3DobpdwC

:)

[EFerrari]

16. That's great! I'm not book buying right now. Also

his spots on Amy's show are archived.

[Shallah Kali]

24. YW :) hope there is enough to tide you over until you can get a copy from the library

or you have the $ in your budget :)

also link to many of the shows w/Scahill at Democracy Now - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=0Lx&num=20&q=site%3Ademocracynow.org+jeremy+scahill&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

[sabrina 1]

18. Oh, thank you for the link

I really appreciate it :-)

[Shallah Kali]

23. YW :)

I really love google books so I don't have to wait until I can get a copy from the library or if I am thinking of buying make sure it is worth that much of my budget.

[kas125]

11. I was lucky enough to meet him and thank him at the RNC.

He came into the restaurant that was our CodePink headquarters a few times. Nice guy who does very important work.

[EFerrari]

12. That's really cool. I'd love to talk to him about BW

and that whole knot of issues. He sure has put in the work. :)

[arcadian]

14. He's one of my Facebook friends.

I've done some of my own stuff about Blackwater:

http://eyeball-series.org/erik-prince/erik-prince.htm

http://eyeball-series.org/blackwater-pr/blackwater-pr.htm


G4S is the PMC to look out for, they bought out Wackenhut and Armorgroup.

[EFerrari]

17. Very cool, arcadian.

:hi:

I wish you'd post the tour piece as an OP. There are a number of us who would be interested in seeing it. Well done!

[kas125]

19. I agree, that would make a great OP!

[EFerrari]

20. Scahill keeps calling Prince a Christian crusader

and it really doesn't begin to cover his Dominionism which is anti-Semitic, homophobic, white supremacist and misogynistic. We need a new term for these people besides "social conservatives".

[dgibby]

22. Radical Right Religionists. n/t