To Be Filed Under “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” Drug Traffickers, the Cambodian Government, and U.S Spies Diving for Cover By Nate Thayer June 21, 2016 Further on the death this weekend of billionaire Cambodian organized crime figure Theng Bunma, a major Asian drug trafficker who owned and controlled the Cambodian political and military […]
The Final Collapse of the Khmer Rouge: how the US dropped the ball when offered Pol Pot for trial
Excerpts from the unpublished manuscript Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalists Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge Copyright Nate Thayer. All Rights Reserved. No reproduction or transmission in whole or part without express written permission from the author Please consider donating to support publication of Sympathy for the Devil By Nate Thayer Immediately after […]
Love and Sex in the U.S. Foreign Service -Lust, Bombs, Bureaucrats. Writings by James Bruno
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, […]
Vietnam Era Renegade Army Discovered: Lighting the darkness: FULRO’s jungle Christians
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 […]
How Hordes of U.S. Republican Party Apparatchik’s Toppled the Mongolian Communist Descendants of Genghis Khan
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 […]
25 Years of Slam Dunk Diplomacy: Rodman trip and history of U.S.-North Korean basketball diplomacy
25 Years of Slam Dunk Diplomacy: Rodman trip comes after decades of basketball diplomacy between U.S. and North Korea as a central tool in nuclear bomb negotiations by Nate Thayer , March 4, 2013 Published in NK News http://www.nknews.org/2013/03/slam-dunk-diplomacy/ NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman’s circus troupe delegation to North Korea was greeted by ridicule by most of […]
Google Chief’s Teenage Daughter Blog Puts AP North Korea News Bureau to Shame: A Comparative Analysis
Amateur Journalism of Teenage Daughter of Google Chief Puts AP North Korea Reporting to Shame: A Comparative Analysis Exactly one year ago, the Associated Press was granted permission to open a news bureau in North Korea, becoming the first western media agency to set up an official operation, providing what was to be a major […]
Teenage Daughter of Google Chief Spills The True Story on North Korea Visit: Puts to Shame Free Press, Dad, and U.S. Government
Teenage Daughter of Google Chief Spills The True Story on North Korea Visit: Puts to Shame Free Press, Dad, and U.S. Government By Nate Thayer Google chief executive Eric Schmidt may now regret inviting his 19 year old teenage daughter, Sophie Schmidt, along on his world headline grabbing, secretive trip to North Korea last week. […]