Motion graphics that Troy Page created during his time working for Media 101.

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The dangers behind Blackwater's rise to power have not been told among the hours of coverage by the mainstream media, so Truthout's Geoff Millard sat down with Jeremy Scahill, author of a new book on the mercenary firm. In this interview, Scahill delves deep into the real dangers of a private mercenary army as powerful as Blackwater.

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In an interview with Truthout, former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson said she would still like to know the identity of the CIA official who passed her name to Vice President Dick Cheney's office in 2003, and "under what circumstances." Plame Wilson has been trying to figure several things out since senior Bush officials leaked her name to columnist Robert Novak and other journalists. That leak ended her two-decade CIA career.

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