{"id":146872,"date":"2019-11-04T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=146872"},"modified":"2024-09-23T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:41:28","slug":"american-horrors-regime-change-in-iraq-to-the-rise-of-isis-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/11\/american-horrors-regime-change-in-iraq-to-the-rise-of-isis-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"American Horrors: Regime Change in Iraq to the Rise of ISIS (Podcast)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo illustration: Elise Swain\/The Intercept; Photo: Getty Images (3)<\/p><\/div>\n

30 Oct 2019 – <\/em>President Donald Trump is gloating over the reported death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. This week on Intercepted: Amid the grandstanding and partisan bickering, no one wants to talk about the decades of U.S. policy that helped give rise to ISIS and al-Qaeda. Jeremy Scahill discusses how U.S. policy opened a Pandora\u2019s Box in Iraq and Syria. Islamic studies scholar Amanda Rogers discusses the actual founder of ISIS, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and how ISIS adopted tactics from the U.S. war on terror. War reporter Mike Giglio talks about his time on the ground covering ISIS. He documents the experience in his new book, Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nhttp:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/FLM9123031337.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Jeremy Scahill<\/a> is an investigative reporter, war correspondent and author of the international bestselling books <\/em>Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield\u00a0<\/em>and <\/em>Blackwater: The Rise of the World\u2019s Most Powerful Mercenary Army<\/em>.\u00a0He has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill has served as the National Security Correspondent for <\/em>The Nation Magazine <\/em>and <\/em>Democracy Now!.<\/em> His work has sparked several Congressional investigations and won some of journalism\u2019s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book <\/em>Blackwater.<\/em>\u00a0Scahill is a producer and writer of the award-winning film <\/em>Dirty Wars<\/em>, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and has been nominated for an Academy Award. jeremy.scahill@\u200btheintercept.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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30 Oct 2019 – Amid the grandstanding and partisan bickering, no one wants to talk about the decades of U.S. policy that helped give rise to ISIS and al-Qaeda. Jeremy Scahill discusses how U.S. policy opened a Pandora\u2019s Box in Iraq and Syria. Islamic studies scholar Amanda Rogers discusses the actual founder of ISIS, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and how ISIS adopted tactics from the U.S. war on terror. War reporter Mike Giglio talks about his time on the ground covering ISIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":124647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,65,66,204,47],"tags":[133,120,267,260,504,741,583,263,767,291,91,86,109,287,880,413,265,572,249,292,70,126,118,492,172,75],"class_list":["post-146872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-militarism","category-anglo-america","category-middle-east-north-africa","category-syria-in-context","category-short-video-clips","tag-cia","tag-conflict","tag-geopolitics","tag-history","tag-international-relations","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-matw","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-occupation","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-state-terrorism","tag-syria","tag-terrorism","tag-torture","tag-trump","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-war","tag-war-on-terror","tag-west","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275102,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146872\/revisions\/275102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}