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I have spent most of my adult life reporting from war and conflict zones around the world and on the front lines of social justice struggles in the United States. As a young journalist for Democracy Now! in the 1990s, I reported from Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, and Nigeria. After 9/11, I knew the Bush administration was going to target Iraq, and I began reporting regularly from Baghdad. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I came across Blackwater mercenaries in New Orleans, prompting a de...