Chinese Official People’s Daily Reports as Serious the Onion’s Spoof Naming Kim Jong Un ‘Sexiest Man Alive’: Voice of the Chinese Communist Party Joins Legions of Others with No Sense of Humour In an excellent example of enterprising hard spot news reporting, China’s Communist Party newspaper, not known for its keen reporting antenna for detecting […]
Oops. That Hits a Bit Close to Home: Second Thoughts on North Korean Propaganda
Oops. That Hits a Bit Close to Home: Second Thoughts on North Korean Propaganda By Nate Thayer I had my finger on the enter button to post a snarky comment about recent satellite photos from Google Earth which revealed a message of praise, each letter measuring 49 feet wide and 65 feet high, carved into […]
The Plague of Online Plagiarism: A Case Study of the Anatomy of Journalistic Theft from my Facebook Page
The Plague of Online Plagiarism: A Case Study of the Anatomy of Journalistic Theft from my Facebook Page The decline of Journalism Standards and Ethics in the Age of the Internet By Nate Thayer Being a freelance journalist is tough enough these days, and I am not alone in providing what I do for a […]
As Sappy an Appreciation of Thanksgiving That Will Ever be Offered from a Grateful if a Bit Loopy American Citizen
As Sappy an Appreciation of Thanksgiving That Will Ever be Offered from a Grateful if a Bit Loopy American Citizen Like most history, the American holiday of Thanksgiving has a whole catalog of competing theories, each with valid evidence driven data, as to its political and religious origins, what it actually celebrates, and its relationship […]
Obama: Support Cambodia Against the Last Murderous Thug in South East Asia
Obama Must Side With the Rights and Dignity of Cambodians, Not Strengthen the Last Thug Left Standing in Power in South East Asia. If Not Cambodia, where? If not now when? If the U.S. won’t support those fighting for democratic freedoms in Cambodia, a country no longer with significant political, economic, military, or strategic value […]
Artist with “Strange Watch” Charged with “Possessing an Explosive Device” at U.S. Airport: Cite “watch itself was on incorrect time.”
Artist with “Strange Watch” Charged with “Possessing an Explosive Device” at U.S. Airport: Cite “watch itself was on incorrect time.” Police officials said that no actual explosives were found but “McGann was carrying potentially dangerous materials and appeared to have made alterations to his boots which were unusually large and stuffed with layers of insoles.” […]
U.S. Embassy Bhenghazi Attacked by Mob, Set on Fire–in 1967
Recalling the Attack on the U.S. Compound in Benghazi – from June 1967 While researching an entirely unrelated story, I came across this remarkably familiar account of a mob attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi–in 1967. Here, John Kormann, a U.S. Foreign Service Officer describes his experience as officer-in-charge at Embassy Benghazi, when it […]
Hun Sen and his cabal are murderous, corrupt thugs: No One Disputes that. Obama Should Take a Stand for the Human and Political Rights of Cambodians
Hun Sen and his cabal are murderous, corrupt thugs: No One Disputes that. Obama Should Take a Stand for the Human and Political Rights of Cambodians On the eve of the first visit ever by a U.S. president to Cambodia, this article on the American approach to the current Cambodian government is seamlessly applicable. Just […]
Lunching with Mass Murderers: The Khmer Rouge Were Not Communists; They were Cambodians
Lunching with Mass Murderers: The Khmer Rouge Were Not Communists; They were Cambodians Excerpts from unpublished manuscript of “Sympathy for the Devil: A journalist’s memoir from inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge” Khmer Rouge ideology and details of who they murdered–and why. From exclusive, previously unpublished interviews with the top Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea, Ta […]
Cambodian Border Massacre: American Crosses the Line to Save Lives
SOF Frontline Report Cambodian Border Massacre American Crosses the Line to Save Lives Text and Photos by George Jones (aka Nate Thayer) Soldier of Fortune magazine October 1989 (Back to Bangkok: A few months ago, George Jones was a desk jockey in an eastern state bureaucracy with prospects of steady work, good pay, and engaged […]
Mr. X, the Cop, Opium & Guerrilla Wars: A Foreign Correspondent's Life
Why being a journalist is one the most interesting jobs on earth It is often the process of getting a story that is as interesting as the news story itself. Excerpts from “Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge” by Nate Thayer Soldier of Fortune Magazine is the finest, […]
America's Embarrassing Dirty Little Secret: The Loopy Conspiracy Theorists Live Next Door
America’s Embarrassing Dirty Little Secret: The Lunatic Fringe are Among the Mainstream Obama may have won the election, but the loopy conspiracy theorists continue to grow By Nate Thayer While President Obama’s victory on Tuesday may seem reassuring to many partisan supporters, lying dormant and perhaps further invigorated a solid half of Americans are decidedly […]
