I recently had an opportunity to hear Jeremy Scahill, author of the international best-selling book, Blackwater speak about his new book. Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield has also been made into a documentary directed by Rick Rowley and is scheduled for release across the US in June. In his presentation to a packed audience in Oakland, California, Scahill mentioned the Reagan�s CIA wars and their attempts to recolonize parts of Latin America. He then showed how these Dirty Wars from the 80s are back � in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and other corners of the world. Under the post-911 �counter-terrorism� meme, this impulse of imperial colonization continues in the Middle East and North Africa.