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.