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
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
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 […]
From Ku Klux Klan Terrorist to Catholic Priest
Blessed be the bomb makers A package of several stories detailing Catholic priest William Aitcheson’s past as a domestic terrorist will be published this week in the National Catholic Reporter. Below is a preview: By Nate Thayer After Ku Klux Klan leader Bill Aitcheson was convicted on hate crime and bomb making charges in 1977, […]
FBI War on Terror tactics on trial in Domestic Terrorism case
The conspiracy between the FBI and unreliable informants to prosecute the War on Terrorism By Nate Thayer August 7, 2017 Lake City, Florida When Ken Parker, a leader of the extreme right wing National Socialist Movement, walked into a barbershop in Jacksonville, Florida on June 23 for his regular haircut, his barber said, “The FBI […]
North Korea tried to entrap me as a spy: A visitor’s guide to the Worker’s Paradise
Diaries from a misspent youth continued….. When North Korea tried to recruit me as a spy: A visitor’s guide to the Worker’s Paradise Excerpts from Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge By Nate Thayer July 30, 2017 Recently, I wrote a story on how the Communist Party […]
My Purple Grandmother
New York City Cabbies and my Purple Grandmother By Nate Thayer July 13, 2017 In 1972, when I was 12, I lived in New York City on Manhattan’s upper east side. My great-grandmother, who always dressed in flowing all purple dresses, purple shoes, and a purple hat, came for a visit from her house on […]
How the Chinese recruit American journalists as spies
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
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 […]
Why Journalists Dating Spies can be Challenging…
From the ex-Girlfriend Diaries…. By Nate Thayer June 9, 2017 This renewed brouhaha over government spies leaking classified U.S. documents to reporters reminded me (a journalist) of my ill-fated romance with a spy for the National Security Agency or NSA, otherwise known as No Such Agency, because it’s very existence is a secret even though […]
How to chat up two gals who don’t want to fuck you, and enjoy it a lot
Or how to play matchmaker for people’s brains when they may or may not be interested in your private parts By Nate Thayer June 6, 2017 Today I saw a Facebook post that made my heart go pitter-patter from someone I don’t know but wanted to. “When I was a Senior in High […]
How the FBI can Ruin the Lives of Law Abiding Americans
By Nate Thayer June 6, 2017 For the last 26 months, I have been largely focused on investigating the broad and effectively unchecked secret police powers the U.S. government has been legally accorded in the years since the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City. Having veered off from a focus on foreign […]
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