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White Supremacist Stolen Valor: A New Leader of Neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division Terror Group Identified

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The new national head of the Atomwaffen Division, an armed clandestine neo-Nazi white supremacist domestic terrorist group, is an U.S. army Iraq and Afghan combat war veteran now serving in the Arizona National Guard, according to former members of the terror group, Arizona National Guard records, and intercepted chat logs from secret extremist online discussion forums.

Cody William Moreash, 32, of Tempe, Arizona has been stockpiling firearms and ammunition since at least 2018, some he has converted into semi-automatic sniper rifles for what he says is preparation to launch terrorist attacks, according to online discussion logs of dozens of conversations between Moreash and members of Atomwaffen Division and other far right extremist groups.

Profiles in Hate: KKK files unmask identities of 100’s of secret Klan members

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The Loyal White Knights of the KKK disrobed Exclusive: 18 month investigation inside the most dangerous Ku Klux Klan faction in America reveals armed Confederacy of Dunces (This is the third article in a three part series on the internal culture of the Loyal White Knights, America’s most active and extremist Ku Klux Klan faction. Links to Part One […]

The KKK Imperial Wizard and his problem with cheap motel rooms

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Road Trips with the Imperial Wizard: booze, buffoonery, and behavior unfit for polite society (This is part two of a three part series profiling the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, the largest and most extremist Klan group in America. For the first story in this series, please go here www.http:/nate-thayer.com/unmasked-inside-americas-violent-ku-klux-klan/ Please consider donating to […]

Ku Klux Klan media star admits lying being an Iraqi war veteran: “I am a media whore”

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By Nate Thayer December 21, 2017 A prominent Ku Klux Klan leader has admitted lying he is a combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Steven Shane Howard, the Imperial Wizard of the North Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and a member of the National Socialist Movement, the largest neo-Nazi […]

What is a Cornball Brother?: Important Sports Journalism Questions

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  How White Are You? And What The Heck is a “Cornball Brother”? Important Questions in Sports Journalism By Nate Thayer This will be my one and only venture into sports journalism. An American sports journalist for ESPN, Rob Parker, got fired for comments he made calling into question exactly how black the Washington Redskins football star […]

KKK terrorist turned Priest now using pulpit for political extremism

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Convicted Ku Klux Klan domestic terrorist and now Catholic priest  continues his political activism. Church says “plans for his future priestly ministry are still being discerned.” (This is the third story in a four-story package on the Catholic church cover up giving sanctuary to a now priest convicted for racial hate crimes as a bomb maker for the […]

Why writing for free is unethical

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FREE-lancing: the ethics and economics of paying writers In 2013, the Magazine Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication sponsored a panel to discuss the “ethics and economics” of unpaid freelancing. Is it OK, the panel asked, for editors to ask journalists to give them stories in exchange for “exposure”? Is there ever a time […]

KKK domestic terrorist given sanctuary as Catholic priest

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Church says convicted domestic terrorist priest has “no obligation under Church law” to pay U.S. court judgements to racial hate crime victims By Nate Thayer December 10, 2017 (This is the 2nd in a four-part series on the Catholic Church giving sanctuary to a convicted Ku Klux Klan domestic terrorist now serving as a priest in the […]

How the Chinese recruit American journalists as spies

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By Nate Thayer How China Recruits Americans to Spy July 1, 2017   On Sept. 20, 2014, agents of the Shanghai State Security Bureau of the Ministry of State Security first contacted me in a bid to recruit me as a spy, requesting I pass US state secrets to them in exchange for cash payments, […]

Freelancers’ Vital Role in International Reporting: Thoughts on the Post 9/11 World

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With the rise of media conglomerates, foreign news has been shoved aside.   By Nate Thayer (Published in Nieman Reports in December 2001, shortly after the terrorist attack in New York City and the start of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, now the longest war in American history) At an annual gathering of the International […]

Did North Korea poison U.S. prisoner Otto Warmbier with Botulism?

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   Did Pyongyang poison a U.S. prisoner with a biological warfare agent?  By Nate Thayer June 16, 2017   On March 16, 2016, 21 year-old college student Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for filching a propaganda poster from his hotel in North Korea. After 18 months, convicted of being a […]

Take Two: Ambassador Dennis Rodman returns to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

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25 Years of Slam Dunk Diplomacy: Dennis Rodman & U.S.-North Korean basketball diplomacy Rodman trip comes after decades of basketball diplomacy between U.S. and North Korea as a central tool in avoiding nuclear war  by Nate Thayer March 4, 2013 (A version of this story was first published in NK News http://www.nknews.org/2013/03/slam-dunk-diplomacy/)   NBA bad […]

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