Josh Rushing: Archive

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We Die Alone

Here’s my must-read-now recommendation of the week: We Die Alone is the incredible, true story of one man’s survival during a World War II, special operations mission in Arctic Norway. I don’t want to tell you any more about the story than that, so I don’t spoil anything. In fact, skip the preface by Stephen Ambrose. His high praise serves the book well, but what he...

Feb 28th

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Feb 22nd

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With All Due Respect →

I’m really frustrated by this, the article I want to share with you today is stuck behind the New Yorker’s pay wall. If you have older (Jan. 9, 2012) copies of the mag laying around and missed this article, or if you have a subscription to their site, it’s worth going back and reading. The piece profiles Jake Adelstein, an odd-duck reporter from Missouri who has become one of the...

Feb 20th

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Feb 17th

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Often it's the little things in life that do us... →

(From the Washington Post) When U.S. special agent Jaime Zapata was shot dead one year ago on a notorious stretch of highway in central Mexico, he was driving a $160,000 armored Chevy Suburban, built to exacting government standards, designed to defeat high-velocity gunfire, fragmentation grenades and land mines. But the vehicle had a basic, fatal flaw. Forced off the road in a...

Feb 17th

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The Woman Who Fell To Earth →

What an incredible story. Makes me want to watch the doc even though I don’t speak German… On Christmas Eve 1971, only hours after her high school graduation ceremony, 17-year-old Juliane and her mother boarded a plane that was to cross the Peruvian rain forest. They were heading home to celebrate Christmas with her father. The plane flew into a volatile thunderstorm and was...

Feb 17th

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How Companies Learn Your Secrets →

Your shopping habits reveal even the most personal information — like when you’re going to have a baby.

Feb 16th

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Watch

I’m crazy for this right now.

Feb 14th

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Feb 13th

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Feb 13th

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batman--girl asked: Dear Josh Rushing, We are seniors from Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest located in northern New Jersey. We are part of our school's AP world history class. While learning about the Iraq- American War, we watched the film Control Room. Through watching this film we were able to gain a greater understanding of what has occurred from both view points.

Jan 11th

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thewatertasteslikefuckingpetrol asked: If you throw a little recreational drug use into your embedding stories, you might just make one up on the fame of H.S. Thompson. Great reportage.

Jan 10th

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Jan 10th

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Jan 9th

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Fault Lines: On the Pulse of the Pentagon

The US announced a new military strategy today at a Pentagon briefing. Much of the discussion concerned what could be read as predictable—and cyclic—budget cuts of a post-war drawdown. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also took pains to mention what wouldn’t feel the fiscal pinch: offensive and defensive cyber security and unmanned systems. We at Fault Lines have covered and...

Jan 5th

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DAILY BEAST: 31 Ways To Get Smarter in 2012 →

Check out #4! Or I’ll save you the trouble: it’s watch Al Jazeera. I couldn’t agree more.

Jan 5th

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Jan 3rd

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Jan 3rd

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Jan 2nd

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Jan 2nd

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Jan 2nd

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Watch

We won the duPont Award! I’m insanely jealous that it was for an episode of Fault Lines, Haiti: Six Months On, filmed by my colleagues: Sebastian Walker, Andrea Schmidt and Snorre Wik. You can see their deserving work here. It feels great to be recognized for our work, but this represents something else as well. Not that long ago, US media awards would never honor Al Jazeera. For years...

Dec 26th

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Dec 26th

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Dec 26th

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After much deliberation, we finally decided on a... →

Am I the only one who thinks it’s odd that Katie Couric named her new puppy “Cooper”? She says it’s like Mini Cooper. Oh, so it’s not like the name of your day-time talk show rival Anderson Cooper. Good, ‘cause that would be weird…

Dec 22nd

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Go Vote! →

Artists Wanted is running a really cool photo competition called Exposure. I’ve submitted my series Baghdad: A Model City. It’s a great site for portfolios. Check it out.

Dec 20th

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In Search of Meaning: Hitchens, Whitman & War

Yesterday was a heavy day. I was saddened to learn this morning that Christopher Hitchens died last night. Hitch was my first interview at Al Jazeera for a pilot show that never aired. I was nervous, he was buzzed. I was earnest, overly so; he was generous, predictably so. I was naive, but trying to hide it; he was erudite, and couldn’t hide it if he tried. Thankfully, he...

Dec 16th

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Dec 12th

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Dec 12th

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Dec 11th

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Dec 11th

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Dec 10th

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Dec 9th

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Dec 8th

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Nov 29th

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American Journalists detained in Cairo

Just learned Jehane Noujaim, director of the film Control Room, has been detained in Egypt. She’s being charged as I write this. Follow her story on twitter AND RT at #freejehane. another female american journalist @monaeltahawy has just been released after 12 hours and is recounting physical and sexual assault via twitter.

Nov 24th

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