Jeremy Scahill in Austin! Journalist speaks at UT Nov. 2 on privatized warfare
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008| November 2, 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Jeremy Scahill in Austin!
Sunday, November 2nd, 6:30 p.m.
Location: UT Campus, FAC 21
(map to FAC: http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/fac.html)
The U.S. occupation of Iraq won’t end with the election. Even when regular troop withdrawal begins, America’s highly paid mercenaries will remain– killing civilians, accountable to no one, and lining their pockets with our tax dollars. Find out why corporations like Blackwater Worldwide couldn’t be happier that we didn’t heed Eisenhower’s warning about expanding the U.S. military-industrial complex.
Jeremy Scahill is a Democracy Now! correspondent, writing fellow for The Nation Institute, award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author of the ground-breaking exposé Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
Scahill is one of the world’s leading experts on privatized warfare. He will explain the dangers of outsourcing military and intelligence functions. Scahill also provides historical and political context for this disturbing trend: what it means to our democracy, the way it undermines our troops, and how it affects citizens in this country and around the world.
Sponsored by CAMEO, with special thanks to Nation Books, Monkeywrench Books and the Travis County Green Party.
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Check out this interview with Jeremy as he speaks about Blackwater mercenaries in post-Katrina New Orleans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVbulr2Pvw
