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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is accused of harassing friends of Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen immigrant who was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Orlando, Florida, under unexplained circumstances during a late-night interrogation five months ago. Todashev was a friend of one of the Boston bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Two more friends are now behind bars in what advocates say is part of a campaign of intimidation. Just why this is happening remains unclear.
Excerpts of some JFK speeches you may not have heard, showing his wit and his perception.
Video: WhoWhatWhy reporter Douglas Lucas explains about leaked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor, and the prison sentence given to hacktivist Jeremy Hammond
Odds are you think of yourself as a skeptic or you wouldn’t be visiting WhoWhatWhy in the first place. Skepticism defines our journalism. It has defined quite a few other people, too…
We at WhoWhatWhy are skeptical of just about everything—and that includes the red satin trappings of St. Valentine’s Day and the more gaseous expressions of love that may or may not mean anything. So, on this day, we thought you might find it refreshing to learn how the Sumerians expressed this feeling. They made […]
Quotes by leading writers of the Counterculture. First up? The legendary Hunter S. Thompson. Here’s a sample of his viewpoint: “Rush Limbaugh… is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival—the freaks who bite the heads off chickens—but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.”
Quotes by leading writers of the Counterculture.
Our series of collected quotes from leading writers of the Counterculture. Now, the words of Abbie Hoffman…
Joseph Heller’s words and wisdom; our series of collected quotes from leading writers of the Counterculture continues.
Thanks to increased travel, and possibly global warming, mosquitoes are bringing more diseases from the tropics to North America. One in particular—dengue fever—can be deadly.
The wit and wisdom of Allen Ginsberg; our series of collected quotes from leading writers of the Counterculture continues.
In honor of Memorial Day, we present works of art depicting scenes from various American wars of the last two centuries.
