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The Leonard Lopate Show

Examining a Private Military Contractor

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Jeremy Scahill, a Democracy Now! correspondent and regular contributor to The Nation, voices his concerns about Blackwater USA--a private military contractor that's providing security to top US officials in Iraq.

Blackwater is available for purchase at amazon.com

Events: Jeremy Scahill will be in conversation with Amy Goodman
Wednesday, March 21 at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:15 pm.
The New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street, at Central Park West
$10 donation at the door. Seating is first come, first seated.
For more information, visit the NYSEC website.


Comments

  • [1] Manchester March 20, 2007 - 03:51PM

    Is the real answer to raise the pay in the U.S. Army?
  • [2] christian from brooklyn March 20, 2007 - 07:40PM

    Blackwater demonstrates yet another high cost to wage this capricious war. The US govt is paying exorbitant fees to outsource its work to premium private-sector services (on whom govt already spent $$$ to train them to be SEAL's in first place) b/c Americans won't sign up for a mission they don't believe in. And it enables the Bush administration to proceed in extra-legal manner. Don't trust your important mail to US Postal Service... pay extra to send it FedEx!
  • [3] Larry from Omaha, NE April 01, 2007 - 12:14AM

    The real solution, beleive it or not, is the equivalent of setting a backfire to fight a forest fire.

    Fix it so the sons and daughters, nieces and nephews of all elected officials, the Fortune 500 Executives, (in short, the 10% of the population that controls 90% of the money) are forced to see their children have an equal chance to go somewhere like Iraq and dodge the IEDs.

    In other words, bring back the lottery draft we had in effect before we went to a "volunteer" military. We'll be out of Iraq in a heartbeat.

    All this is described in detail in another book called "Neither Liberal Nor Conservative Be".

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