Nick turse
Nick Turse is a fellow at Type Media Center, an investigative reporter, the managing editor TomDispatch, the co-founder of Dispatch Books, and a contributing writer at The Intercept. He is the author or co-author of seven books, most recently Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan, which was a finalist for the 2016 Investigative Reporters and Editors book award, and the New York Times bestseller Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, which received a 2014 American Book Award.
Turse’s work, alone and in collaboration, has been recognized with a number of honors including a Ridenhour Prize for Investigative Reporting, a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, an I.F. Stone “Izzy” Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Journalism, a New York Press Club Award for Special Event Reporting, and an Editor & Publisher “Eppy” Award for Best Investigative Feature, among others.
Turse has also received an Ochberg Fellowship from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Writer’s Residency in Marfa, Texas. He has previously been a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and New York University’s Center for the United States and the Cold War. He has a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University.
Recent Work
Donald Trump’s Sanity Is not the Question. The Real Issue Is how he Got Into Office
To reduce his presidency to a frail mind is to ignore the fact he’s an emblem of free-market, white supremacist nationalism.
By Gary Younge in The Guardian.
How This Pastor of a Megachurch Is Fueling Ebola Conspiracy Theories
Pastor Jules Mulindwa runs a rollicking Congolese megachurch complete with flashing lights and a live band.
By Nick Turse in Time.
The Forgotten Trauma of a Forgotten War
As the world looks away, death stalks the Democratic Republic of Congo.
By Nick Turse in TomDispatch.
Why Closing The Congo-Rwanda Border Could Spread Ebola
A chora chora is a resourceful man, a clever man, a man who can get things done.
By Nick Turse in The Intercept.
UN Accuses US-Allied Forces of War Crimes in Syria
US generals are seemingly unaware of the allegations or whether they leveled Syrian villages.
By Nick Turse in The Nation.
More U.S. Commandos are Fighting Invisible Wars in the Middle East
On average, more than 4,000 Special Operations forces are deployed to the region each week.
By Nick Turse in The Intercept.
The Killing Never Ends
On a sunny July afternoon in 2010, I stood among a solemn crowd gathered in the intense California heat.
By Nick Turse in Jacobin.
U.S. Military Named Secretive Base in Syria After “Game of Thrones” Bastion
Castle Black isn’t just a fictional fort in “Game of Thrones.” Last year, it was also a very real U.S. military base in Syria.
By Nick Turse in the Intercept.
What Does War Have to Do With Me?
Combat viewed from the rooftops and beyond.
By Nick Turse in TomDispatch.
Humanitarian Crises in DRC Leaves Millions of Children in Danger
The ongoing conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo have left more than two million children malnourished.
Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead
For six weeks in the Spring of 2015, award-winning journalist Nick Turse traveled on foot as well as by car, SUV, and helicopter around war-torn South Sudan talking to military officers and child soldiers, United Nations officials and humanitarian workers, civil servants, civil society activists, and internally displaced persons–people whose lives had been blown apart by a ceaseless conflict there. In fast-paced and dramatic fashion, Turse reveals the harsh reality of modern warfare in the developing world and the ways people manage to survive the unimaginable.
Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead isn’t about combat, it’s about the human condition, about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, about death, life, and the crimes of war in the newest nation on earth.
Tomorrow's Battlefield
You won’t see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America’s newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, U.S. officers now claim that Africa is the battlefield of tomorrow, today.” In Tomorrow’s Battlefield, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Nick Turse exposes the shocking true story of the U.S. military’s spreading secret wars in Africa.
Kill Anything That Moves
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few “bad apples.” But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to “kill anything that moves.”
Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded-what one soldier called “a My Lai a month.” Devastating and definitive, Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day.
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