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Fleeting Thoughts on the Death of Human Interaction in the Digital Age

November 14, 2013 by wpfixit

Momentary Fleeting Thoughts on the Death of Human Interaction in the Digital Age By Nate Thayer November 14, 2013 I have had dozens of communications with people today–by text, by email, by Google and FB Instant Messaging, from all over the globe. I have been communicating with people for nearly 12 hours, uninterrupted. But just […]

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The Night I Lived: Excerpts from Sympathy for the Devil

November 13, 2013 by wpfixit

Landmines, War, and Journalism: One war reporter’s close encounter with religion, death, and victory (Copyright Nate Thayer. No reproduction or dissemination in whole or in part without express written permission of the author)  Your Support is Needed  The new realities of journalism are that investigative journalism must seek independent financing after institutional support from media companies has largely […]

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Musician’s Protest Goes Viral: Corporations offer no payment in exchange for “exposure”

November 8, 2013 by wpfixit

Musicians say Enough is Enough for being asked to work for Free: One mans strongly worded refusal goes viral on social media A Familiar refrain: “They consistently offer musicians nothing for their work, instead suggesting ‘exposure’ as a form of payment.” The issue of for profit companies trying to increase their profit margin by refusing […]

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Love and Sex in the U.S. Foreign Service -Lust, Bombs, Bureaucrats. Writings by James Bruno

November 7, 2013 by wpfixit

Love & Sex in the U.S. Foreign Service -Lust, Loneliness, Bombs & Bureaucrats & other writings by retired diplomat and best selling author James Bruno By Nate Thayer November 7, 2013 You can access the writings and book of James Bruno at http://jameslbruno.blogspot.com/ This morning, James Bruno, an old friend and now a best-selling author, […]

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Sleep With the Angels, Buddy: Photographing the Death of My Friend

November 3, 2013 by wpfixit

My old friend, Buddy, left us, forever, this afternoon. Below, I am listening to Buddy’s heart stop beating. He took a last,deep gasp, an inhale of breath. It was the sound of death. I have heard it many times before. I knew Buddy was gone. He lived a good life and died a good death. […]

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Vietnam Era Renegade Army Discovered: Lighting the darkness: FULRO’s jungle Christians

October 28, 2013 by wpfixit

Lighting the darkness: FULRO’s jungle Christians      Vietnam Era Renegade Army Discovered By Nate Thayer (This story appeared in the Phnom Penh Post and  as the cover story in the Far Eastern Economic Review.  I discovered, in the remote Northeastern Cambodian jungles along the Ho Chi Minh trail along the Vietnamese border, an army literally lost […]

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The Childhood Education of a Cantankerous Journalist

October 28, 2013 by wpfixit

The Early Education of a Future Cantankerous Journalist: 7th grade English class papers from a 12 year old By Nate Thayer October 28, 2013 I recently moved several hundred boxes of books, papers, and various possessions I have acquired through my decidedly nomadic, itinerant life from a storage unit into the basement of my new […]

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Lunching With Mass Murderers: Khmer Rouge leaders explain why they slaughtered their own people, and why it was, really, for the best: Excerpts from “Sympathy for the Devil” By Nate Thayer

October 12, 2013 by wpfixit

Lunching With Mass Murderers: Top Khmer Rouge leaders explain, in their own words, why they killed 1.8 million people, why it was not their fault, and really for the best. Excerpts from unpublished manuscript “Sympathy for the Devil: A journalist’s memoir from inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge” By Nate Thayer (Copyright Nate Thayer. All rights reserved. […]

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How Hordes of U.S. Republican Party Apparatchik’s Toppled the Mongolian Communist Descendants of Genghis Khan

October 6, 2013 by wpfixit

How Hordes of U.S. Republican Party Apparatchik’s Toppled the Mongolian Communist Descendants of Genghis Khan Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with the Mongolian Voter” was the single largest printed and most widely distributed document in Mongolian History, and Crucial to Overthrowing History’s Second Longest Ruling Communist Government Without Shedding a Drop of Blood: The  “Contract with Mongolia.” From the archives […]

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Journalist of Mercy: Walt Whitman Remembered

September 26, 2013 by wpfixit

Journalist of Mercy: Walt Whitman Remembered Hundreds of letters on behalf of the incapacitated, the suffering, the frightened, the dying soldiers during the U.S. Civil War to their families were written by the loving handwritten pen of one of our eras greatest journalist/poets  By Nate Thayer September 26, 2013 Thus in silence in dreams’ projections, […]

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Syrian Chemical Weapons: The odd tale of a lone Israeli spy and North Korea

August 27, 2013 by wpfixit

The odd tale of a lone Israeli spy and North Korea Given the current crisis over use of chemical weapons in Syria, here is a link to a recent story on NKNews.org on clandestine North Korean Syrian chemical warfare cooperation (see full story at NKNews.org http://www.nknews.org/2013/06/the-odd-tale-of-a-lone-israeli-spy-and-north-korea/) Explosion kills Syrian technicians on North Korean train, Israeli agent spotted […]

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The violent consequences of the North Korea-Syria chemical arms trade

August 27, 2013 by wpfixit

A recent story on NKNews.org on the North Korean Origins of the Syrian Chemical Weapons Program has renewed timeliness given the current crisis over chemical weapons use against civilians in Syria (full story at NKNews.orghttp://www.nknews.org/2013/06/the-violent-consequences-of-the-north-korea-syria-arms-trade/ Clandestine cooperation between pariah states has left trail of bodies BY NATE THAYER , JUNE 20, 2013 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The blast at […]

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Excerpts from “Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalists Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge”

“Who is that singer? Johnny Jackson? Like he says, ‘We are the World!’ We are with the West! Let’s join together!” said a Khmer Rouge cadre

Why Journalism is Better than a Real Job: Excerpts from Sympathy for the Devil

Journalist Nate Thayer views the body of Pol Pot

The Night Pol Pot Died: Excerpts from unpublished manuscript “SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: A JOURNALIST’S MEMOIR INSIDE POL POT’S KHMER ROUGE” By Nate Thayer

The Free Press is Dead–Temporarily

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A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist—2013 Here is an exchange between the Global Editor of the Atlantic Magazine and myself this afternoon attempting to solicit my professional services for an article they sought to publish after reading my story “25 Years of Slam Dunk Diplomacy: Rodman trip comes after 25 years of […]

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