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This week on Uprising:

* “Beyond the Green Zone” with Dahr Jamail
* Black Agenda Report on the Mortgage Crisis
* “Blackwater” with Jeremy Scahill
* Empire Notes on Iran and Coercive Diplomacy

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“Beyond the Green Zone” with Dahr Jamail

GUEST: Dahr Jamail, Independent Journalist, Author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatched from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”

Air strikes by the U.S. military in Iraq have increased in recent weeks, as has the civilian death toll as a result. As conflicting accounts over suspected Al Qaeda and civilian deaths are reported by the corporate media as “incidents,” independent journalist Dahr Jamail has released a new book, “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.” The narrative chronicles his experiences reporting in the wake of the U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. In the months following the start of the war in 2003, Jamail was motivated to bridge the gap between the corporate media and the Iraqi people. Over the course of two years, Jamail spent a total of eight months as an independent journalist reporting on the realities on the ground in Iraq. As one of the few unembedded reporters from the United States, Jamail was able to bring alternative perspectives from the siege of Fallujah. His Mideast dispatches have been published in the Guardian, the Independent, Foreign Policy in Focus, and more. John Pilger has said of Jamail’s work that it is “international journalism at its best.”

For more information, visit www.dahrjamailiraq.com/

Black Agenda Report on Katrina and Housing

GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is about Katrina and Housing. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

“Blackwater” with Jeremy Scahill

GUEST: Jeremy Scahill, Independent Journalist and Author of “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army”

US prosecutors have opened a grand jury inquiry into Blackwater employees. After a two-week investigation in Baghdad last month, the FBI has found that the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater Security in September was unjustified under the State Department’s regulations for private security contractors. They say that the death of three others in the same incident may have fallen within the guidelines of deadly force. Blackwater asserts that their security officers simply responded to gunfire directed towards them as they tried to stop traffic to make way for a US convoy. The FBI’s findings, however, indicate that at least 14 of the 17 civilians killed were gunned down while they were trying to flee the scene. A similar case in which a bodyguard to Iraq’s vice president was killed nearly one year ago has yet to be prosecuted – mostly because the prosecution of private security contractors in a war zone falls in a legal grey area. Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahil’s new book, “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army”, chronicles the company’s growth, and the legal limbo under which it operates.

Empire Notes on Iran and Coercive Diplomacy

GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade

Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today commentary is on Iran and Coercive Diplomacy.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

Uprising’s Subversive Thought for the Day

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer… It sings because it has a song.” — Maya Angelou