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Democracy now May 23rd, 2007 On US contactors in Iraq and accountability, Pretty sick stuff considering all our retoric about peace and democracy. Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist. He writes about and is a cited expert on a number of global issues, including the rise of PMCs within the recent years.[citation needed] Scahill and colleague Amy Goodman were co-recipients of the 1998 George Polk Award for their radio documentary, "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship", which documented the Chevron Corporation's alleged role in the killing of two Nigerian environmental activists.[2] Scahill has reported from post-invasion Iraq; the former Yugoslavia, where he covered the 1999 NATO bombing[3]; and from post-Katrina Louisiana.[4] He has been a vocal critic of private military contractors, particularly Blackwater Worldwide, the subject of his book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.[5] The book was the focus of a two-part interview and discussion with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! in March 2007[6]. Up until 1998, he was a regular contributor to the Catholic Worker newspaper. He campaigned vigorously against US policy towards Cuba, arguing that the Helms-Burton Act "discards...sovereignty...and attempts to supersede International law with US law...creates a legal framework authorizing financial and military support for armed subversion of a sovereign nation