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Nick Turse

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Covers:  world news, humanitarian issues, foreign policy, military, national security, war, africa, investigative journalism
Doesn't Cover: fluff
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Nick Turse’s Biography

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Nick Turse is an award-winning journalist, historian, essayist, the managing editor of TomDispatch.com, the co-founder of Dispatch Books, and a fellow at the Nation Institute.

He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (Metropolitan Books, 2013) and several other books including The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyber Warfare (Dispatch Books/Haymarket Books, 2012) and The …

Nick Turse’s Journalist Portfolio

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Ghost Nation

Ghost Nation

In his heart, Simon Yakida knew he was digging his own grave. A few days earlier, clashes between government …

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Where the bodies aren't buried

Where the bodies aren't buried

One morning in February, people began telling me about "Abu Sala." They were all new arrivals, men and women …

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How the NSA Built a Secret Surveillance Network for Ethiopia

How the NSA Built a Secret Surveillance Network for Ethiopia

"A warm friendship connects the Ethiopian and American people," U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announc…

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I Asked the U.S. Military for Its Leaflets About Joseph Kony. It Sidestepped the Request, Then Bu...

I Asked the U.S. Military for Its Leaflets About Joseph Kony. It Sidestepped the Request, Then Bu...

"Joseph Kony Est Mort," reads a leaflet bearing the murderous Central African warlord's visage and the messag…

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Pentagon Denies Knowledge of Cameroon Base Abuses - Despite Being Aware of Reports of Torture

Pentagon Denies Knowledge of Cameroon Base Abuses - Despite Being Aware of Reports of Torture

"To date, U.S. Africa Command has not received any reports of human rights abuses by Cameroonian forces at ei…

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Cameroonian Troops Tortured and Killed Prisoners at Base Used for U.S. Drone Surveillance

Cameroonian Troops Tortured and Killed Prisoners at Base Used for U.S. Drone Surveillance

Troops in the West African nation of Cameroon have tortured prisoners at a remote military base that is also …

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Articles

The Horrifying Lessons of 250 Years of American History

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| The Intercept Verified
In his typical understated fashion, President Donald Trump has billed his Fourth of July rally in Washington, D.C., as the culmination of the “most unforgettable birthday party any country has ever seen.” It’s hard to argue any different.
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The Trump Administration’s Shameless Snuff-Film Fixation

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| Smirking Chimp
— from TomDispatch Half a decade later and I still remember his voice. A young man lies on the ground, begging, pleading, screaming as another man, swinging a machete, forces him to place his right arm on a small wooden bench. The attacker wants to make things easier on himself. But it was never going to be easy. The assailant begins hacking away. Swinging the panga again and again and again, taunting his victim as he delivers the blows. It unfolds slowly.
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The Trump Administration’s Shameless Snuff-Film Fixation

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With the wreckage of the Twin Towers still smoldering in October 2001, Tom Engelhardt started sending emails to a select group of friends and colleagues to make sense of that increasingly imperial moment. Tom was a renowned book editor with an eye for the idiosyncratic masterpiece: Studs Terkel’s oral histories, Matt Groening’s pre-Simpsons “Life Is Hell” books, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Maus,” Chalmers Johnson’s prescient “Blowback,” among them.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

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Does Redford as Woodward count? William Miller's writing is incendiary.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

pen, reporters' notebook, laptop, digital audio recorder...

Awards

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Ridenhour Prize

2009 - Investigative Reporting
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James Aronson Award

2009 - Social Justice Journalism
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I.F. Stone “Izzy” Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Journalism

2014 - Independent Journalism
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