Posted Mar 7th 2008 4:01PM by Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming , What To Watch Tonight At 8, CBS has another Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular .

It was inevitable that at some point the two Democratic contenders for their party's presidential nomination should skirmish on the political hot-button issue of U.S. use of private security contractors.

How many pizzas do you think 60 kids can eat at one sitting? Fifteen, if Saturday's Read Across America Pizza Party/Awards program is any indication.

By Cal2 - Jeremy Scahill, an independent journalist, had been covering the news from Iraq for over six years when on the morning of March 31, 2004 four men identified as civilian contractors were ambushed and killed in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. This incident led to the U.S government's attacking Fallujah, killing hundreds of people (including innocent bystanders), and displacing tens of thousands of others. Who were these four men who got killed in Fallujah?

The state, Max Weber wrote in his classic essay "Politics as a Vocation," "is a human community that claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory." Our government is ...

Democracy Now! February 28, 2008 Jeremy Scahill reports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not "rule out" using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq.

Jeremy Scahill has been doing some good work trying to pin down the US Democratic contenders on the issue of mercenaries in Iraq : A senior foreign policy adviser to leading Democratic presidential candidate ...

Clinton over Obama on Blackwater et al . From Democracy Now! On Thursday, Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now! correspondent and author of "Blackwater," reported that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ...

During the 1950s I grew up in a family who rooted for the success of African Americans in their just struggle for civil rights and full legal equality.

Posted by Jane Hamsher , Firedoglake at 8:11 AM on March 1, 2008. If politicians are going to be greeted like this for their efforts, what's the upside for them? One of the reasons we haven't endorsed during ...

Berlingske Tidende - Talen er siden druknet i begivenhedernes gang, men journalisten Jeremy Scahill fremhæver den i sin nys udkomne bog »Blackwater«. Rumsfeld advarede i talen mod »en alvorlig ...

Berlingske Tidende - Talen er siden druknet i begivenhedernes gang, men journalisten Jeremy Scahill fremhæver den i sin nys udkomne bog »Blackwater«. Rumsfeld advarede i talen mod »en alvorlig ...

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books/Avalon) by Jeremy Scahill is now available! Order the book today! BUY THE BOOK FROM AMAZON; BUY THE ...

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books/Avalon) by Jeremy Scahill is now available! Order the book today! BUY THE BOOK FROM AMAZON; BUY THE ...

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On September 16, 2007, Blackwater contractors, during a complex confrontation in downtown Baghdad, shot and killed Iraqis in the crowded Nisour Square.

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An independent US reporter and photographer bringing news and photography of the occupation of Iraq back to his country. The truth in pictures and reality in words of the war in ...

Jeremy Scahill reports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not "rule out" using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq. Obama also has no ...