BLACKWATER: THE RISE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL MERCENARY ARMY
Book ID/图书代码： 11650011B44322
English Summary/英文概要： Meet BLACKWATER USA, the world?s most powerful mercenary firm. Based in the wilderness of North Carolina, it is the fastest-growing private army on the planet with forces capable of carrying out regime change throughout the world. Blackwater protects the top US officials in Iraq and yet we know nothing about the firm?s quasi-military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and inside the US. Blackwater was founded by an extreme right-wing fundamentalist Christian mega-millionaire ex-Navy Seal named Erik Prince, the scion of a wealthy conservative family that bankrolls far-right-wing causes. Blackwater is the dark story of the rise of a powerful mercenary army, ranging from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to rooftop firefights in Najaf to the hurricane-ravaged US gulf to Washington DC, where Blackwater executives are hailed as new heroes in the war on terror. This is an extraordinary expose by one of America?s most exciting young radical journalists.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在這部波爾克獲獎圖書中，Jeremy Scahill帶領我們從伊拉克的街道和遭受颶風蹂躪的新奧爾良到華盛頓的權力內幕，揭示了黑水公司的暗箱運作，在美國的全球"反恐戰爭"中扮演最最有權威的參與者之一。滿足美國黑水保安公司，被美國政府私下聘請的，在國際戰區及在美國本土執行任務的強大私人軍隊。擁有自己的軍事的基地，二十架飛機機群，和兩萬名嚴陣以待的部隊，黑水公司是為"全球反恐戰爭"的近衛軍精英，然而大多數人從來沒有聽說過它。這是當戰爭轉變的時：2004年3月31日，四個美國人遭到費盧傑遜尼派要塞附近一群憤怒的暴民的伏擊並燒毀了他們的吉普車。他們被燒焦的屍體掛在一座橫跨幼發拉底河的一座橋上。隨後被美軍報復軍事行動將點燃伊拉克抵抗運動，時至今日仍然紛擾著美軍。但這些人是既不是美國軍方，也不是平民。他們是被設在北卡羅萊納州的曠野的行事隱秘的雇傭軍公司訓練有素的，被派遣到伊拉克的列兵。《黑水公司：蜚聲世界最強大的雇傭軍》是講述來自美國複雜的軍需下產生的一股最強大的和最神秘力量的一部未經授權的史詩故事，評估了被作為軍事變革布希政府，但在他人眼裡卻視作是對對美國民主的嚴重威脅。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：made into a TV fiction feature for HBO and is an international bestseller. "’A crackling expose’ New York Times ’Blackwater is the utterly gripping and explosive story of how the Bush Administration has spent hundreds of millions of public dollars building a parallel corporate army, an army so loyal to far right causes it constitutes nothing less than a Republican Guard. The most important and chilling book about the death throes of U.S. democracy you will read in years and a triumph of investigative reporting’ Naomi Klein, author No Logo ’Of all the insane Bush privatization efforts, none is more frightening than the corporatizing of military combat forces. Jeremy Scahill admirably exposes a devastating example of this sinister scheme’ - Michael Moore, Academy Award Winning Director"
About the Author/作者介绍： Jeremy Scahill是《美國雜誌》國家安全通訊員和私有化戰世界頂級專家之一。他是國際暢銷書《Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army/黑水公司》的作者。他是上許多電視與廣播節目的常客，經常出現在微軟全國有線廣播電視公司的瑞吉兒•麥道秀，和知名主持人歐伯曼倒計時，美國家庭電影院即時頻道的比爾•馬赫的建設民主節目！他還在美國廣播公司世界新聞，哥倫比亞廣播公司晚間新聞，NBC夜間新聞，美國有線電視新聞網和美國公共電視臺的《新聞小時》和條莫比爾雜誌上出現。他的短片《黑水公司最年輕的受害者》是由學院獎得主邁克爾•摩爾所組織承辦的2010年密西根州特拉弗斯城電影節舉辦的官方首選推薦片。Scahill的作品已經引發了幾個美國國會介入調查，並贏得了一些新聞界的最高榮譽。他兩次被授予聲望很高的喬治•波爾克獎，其中是1998年作為對外報告報告和2008年他的作品《黑水公司》。在2009年，他被獨立媒體授予了伊茲獎，因其作為一位特立獨行的記者而被命名為I. F. Stone，然後,在2010年，他因對秘密軍事行動的報告而獲得了兩項查新聞查禁榜。他現住在紐約布魯克林。Jeremy Scahill is an unembedded, international journalist. He has reported extensively from Iraq through both the Clinton and Bush administrations. He reported from Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO bombing and spent years covering the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic’s government and the rise of a neoliberal regime backed by the United States. He has also reported from Nigeria, where he and colleague Amy Goodman exposed the role of the Chevron oil corporation in the massacre of protesting villagers in the Niger Delta. Traveling around the hurricane zone in the wake of Katrina, Scahill exposed the presence of Blackwater mercenaries in New Orleans and his reporting sparked a Congressional inquiry and an internal Department of Homeland Security investigation. Scahill has won numerous awards, including the prestigious George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting and numerous Project Censored Awards. He was among the only western reporters to gain access to the Abu Ghraib prison when Saddam Hussein was in power and his story on the emptying of that prison won a (US) Golden Reel for “Best National Radio News Story” of 2002. Blackwater is his first book.
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