Bill Moyers Journal: Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater

[TomClash]

Brilliant - a great interview. The rise of private armies in Iraq - coming to an American neighborhood near you.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10192007/watch.html

JEREMY SCAHILL: Right. Well, I think we're in the midst of the most radical privatization agenda in our nation's history. We of course see it in schools. We see it in the health care system, in prisons. And now, we're seeing it full blown in the war machine. What I ultimately see as the real threat here is that the system of the very existence of the nation state I think is at stake here. Because you have companies now that have been funded with billions of dollars in public money using that money to then build up the infrastructure of private armies some of which could take out a small national military. And the old model used to be if a company wants to go into Nigeria for instance and exploit oil, they have to work with the juntas forces in order to do that. Now, you can just bring in your own private military force

[5X]

1. I am having to watch it online, the local pbs station has

decided to run something that has run 3 times in the last two
weeks instead.
Interesting, isn't it.

[TomClash]

2. It was VERY interesting nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Saw it. Good stuff.

Scahill is a good communicator ( not to mention a great... and intrepid... journalist). He's ( and we) gotta find a way to simplify the narrative. It's complex material.

Scahill knows he's got limited facetime to make his case;( in the NY market the local "news"casts are all leading with Joe Torre; there's nothing about Blackwater in the local 'casts at all. Doesn't exist.) so his delivery is rapid fire and hard to digest.

But it's a must see for people in places where it (Bill Moyer's Journal) will be aired.