Jeremy Scahill – April 9, 2007<\/p>\n
Blackwater: The Rise of the Most Powerful Mercenary Firm in the World<\/p>\n
Recording 25.1 meg 43:57 – temp version<\/a><\/p>\n From event listing: Blackwater protects the top US officials in Iraq, yet the public knows almost nothing about their quasi-military operations, which range from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to rooftop firefights in Najaf to the hurricane-ravaged US gulf to Washington DC. \u201cJeremy Scahill\u2019s expos\u00e9 of the Blackwater mercenary firm forcefully demonstrates the grave dangers of outsourcing the government\u2019s monopoly on the use of force.\u201d \u2013 Joseph Wilson, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. Recorded at Odyssey Books<\/a>, South Hadley, MA.<\/p>\n This recording is \u00a9 2007 Ed Russell, all rights reserved. You may broadcast recordings but please contact<\/a> to let Ed Russell know you have done so. Please attribute; when excerpting give www.activeingredients.org so that others may download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeremy Scahill – April 9, 2007 Blackwater: The Rise of the Most Powerful Mercenary Firm in the World Recording 25.1 meg 43:57 – temp version From event listing: Blackwater protects the top US officials in Iraq, yet the public knows almost nothing about their quasi-military operations, which range from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to… Continue reading Blackwater – rise of most powerful mercenary firm in world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}