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1,001 Ways To Die In Somalia

I was shivering in bed on my first night in Mogadishu. At 3:30 am, I killed the air conditioner. Moments later, the room felt stuffier than a London subway. I got up and paced around, wondering if it was safe to keep the balcony door open.
Featured•Film

General Butt Naked

This clip features General Buttnaked (a.k.a. Joshua Milton Blahyi), who reputedly killed over 25,000 people during the civil war in Liberia, making him history’s greatest mass murderer. I interviewed and filmed him near Monrovia/Liberia in 2008, where he said he had”converted” to Christianity and was saving former child soldiers. During the war Buttnaked and his child soldiers...
Featured•Investigative

From A Tin Can To A Killer Vamp – The History of Drone Evolution

Published under TRUTHOUT “Let Robots Do the Dying,” said Simon Ramo, the aerospace pioneer. The first “robots” that did their dying for us were clunky little tin cans with wings on them. Anti-aircraft gunners would shoot them down during training exercises in WWII. On rare occasions they were sent out on simple attack missions – with no return...
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