The story that isn’t being told11 May 2008The story that isn’t being told Rageh Omaar The Guardian March 17 2008 There was also an extraordinary diversity of views about the war and the occupation: independent bloggers such as the excellent Arab-American writer Dahr Jamail operated alongside reporters…
‘I wanted to report on where the silence was’8 May 2008Texas-born Dahr Jamail was outraged that the US media were swallowing the Bush administration’s line on Iraq and so, with just $2,000 and no previous journalistic experience, he set off to find out what was really happening in the country….
Alternative Radio27 Mar 2008April 15 Dahr Jamail – Iraq: Beyond the Green Zone (lecture) -Alternative Radio is a weekly one-hour progressive radio show syndicated on more than 190 stations in the U.S. and beyond. Feed Date & Time: Tuesdays, 1400-1459ET Channel: A68.5 Terms:...
BTGZ Wins James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for 200727 Mar 2008Dahr Jamail, author of Beyond the Green Zone Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq Dahr Jamail (Author) Foreword by Amy Goodman Published: 10/01/2007 9781931859479 | $20.00 | Trade Cloth Forthcoming in paperback http://www.cbsd.com/inventory.aspx?id=22349 has just won a James…
The Biometric Cataloging of Americans at Home12 Mar 2008“Avoid the hassle of airport security every time you fly.” This is the rhetoric being used to entice U.S. citizens to voluntarily provide their biometric information to the U.S. government. The program, called “clear,” is being installed at airports around…
Jeremy Scahill interviews Dahr Jamail for The Nation8 Feb 2008Dahr Jamail: Beyond the Green Zone by JEREMY SCAHILL [posted online on February 8, 2008] EDITOR’S NOTE: Dahr Jamail has spent more time reporting from Iraq than almost any other US journalist. His new book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches…
Beyond the Green Zone on CSPAN’s Book TV10 Jan 2008BookTV on CSPAN2 presents: Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq Author: Dahr Jamail Upcoming Schedule Sunday, January 13, at 6:00 AM Sunday, January 13, at 2:00 PM Sunday, January 13, at 10:00 PM About…
Beyond the Green Zone at Tom’s Review of Books9 Jan 2008“Don’t miss Dahr Jamail’s first book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq—and, while you’re reading it, think of us as the invading Martians. I hardly need to extol Jamail to Tomdispatch readers,...
Drifting Into Dystopia: An Interview with Dahr Jamail19 Dec 2007Morphism.com December 19, 2007 [by Scott Thill] Dahr Jamail is that rarity in today’s journalism: An intrepid truth-teller who enters the line of fire unprotected by the planet’s greatest superpower. He may be unembedded, but his award-winning work, out now…
The Sydney Morning Herald Reviews Beyond the Green Zone14 Dec 2007Beyond the Green Zone The Sydney Morning Herald Antony Loewenstein, reviewer December 14, 2007 A grim picture of young American soldiers acting violently against an often-invisible threat. Author: Dahr Jamail Genre: Society/Politics Publisher: Haymarket Books Pages: 313 RRP: $39.95 Nearly…
Jamail Receives Callaway Award13 Dec 2007The Eighteenth Annual Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage Presented to Dahr Jamail Journalist, embedded in the truth In recognition of his courageous decision to report the real stories of the Iraqi people under United States invasion and then…
BOOKS-US/IRAQ: Outrage in a Time of Apathy13 Nov 2007Inter Press Service By Aaron Glantz* SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 13 (IPS) – Unlike most U.S. journalists who went to Iraq to cover a war, Dahr Jamail went to try to stop it….
What I saw in Fallujah5 Nov 2007The New Statesman Dahr Jamail Published 01 November 2007 Dahr Jamail set out to report the truth about the US invasion of Iraq and its terrible impact on daily life. Determined to remain independent of the army, he embedded himself…
The Iraq war has become a disaster that we have chosen to forget5 Nov 2007With the media subdued, governments have not been held to account for the biggest political calamity of our time Madeleine Bunting Monday November 5, 2007 The Guardian Excerpt: “What is chilling about Jamail’s accounts is the routine destructiveness of the…
More BTGZ Reviews/Interviews1 Nov 2007The Catastrophic Military Occupation of Iraq is Rarely Described Accurately in the U.S. Media Written by Kevin Zeese, for Democracy Rising Monday, 29 October 2007 An Interview with independent journalist Dahr Jamail ?The bogus idea that if the U.S. leaves…
I Had No Choice15 Oct 2007Original Essay for Powell’s Books “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” ?George Orwell I never intended to be a revolutionary. In March 2003 when the U.S-led invasion of Iraq was launched I was in…
BOOK RELEASE AND NATIONAL TOUR LAUNCH15 Oct 2007Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq By Dahr Jamail with a Foreword by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan of Democracy Now! ORDER BOOK Via Dahr Jamail’s website Via Haymarket Books PRAISE FOR BEYOND THE…
NY Times Responds Again on Fallujah24 Jul 2007Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) http://www.fair.org NY Times Responds Again on Fallujah Public editor’s second response contains factual errors 7/24/07 To paraphrase Clark Hoyt, if you’re going to defend the performance of a news organization, you at a minimum…
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