
Cover-up at Guantánamo: What Does NCIS Have to Hide?
The last few weeks in the life of a man who endured physical and psychological torture until he killed himself. But what really happened was covered up, and so were the reasons for the cover-up.
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The last few weeks in the life of a man who endured physical and psychological torture until he killed himself. But what really happened was covered up, and so were the reasons for the cover-up.
In this hour-long interview, WhoWhatWhy Editor-in-Chief Russ Baker digs deep into the shadowy systemic elements that prevent true democracy.
Part 1 revealed the daily abuses African-Americans suffered at the hands of the Ferguson police. Part 2 is about money. The more tickets the police wrote, the more money they made for the city. And the more brownie points they earned for themselves.
Norm Stamper talks about cop culture, how contagious and deeply institutionalized it is and how “awful but lawful” has become an internal standard that real community policing has to root out.
All across America, Muslims have not only condemned what Omar Mateen did — they have openly expressed support for the gay community.
The House Benghazi Committee today released its final report. It is an 800-page tome that, depending on whom you support in the presidential election, either shows that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is directly to blame for the attack (and may in fact have led the assault) or that a two-year, taxpayer-funded witch hunt […]
A mainstream narrative is quickly taking shape, as it did following the Boston Marathon bombing. In this week’s podcast Russ Baker begins to ask the questions that will lead to a deeper understanding of events in Orlando.
Sexual violence is endemic in unexpected places on college campuses, not just in “jock” environments like fraternities — and administrators aren’t doing enough to stop it.
The battle for ad dollars and pageviews has become a race to the bottom, in which being first is more important than being correct. Please bear with us as we are once again going against the grain.
Trump’s Barely Victory, DC Approves $15 Minimum Wage, Trump + Alex Jones: A Love Story, and More Picks
This late-90s article by future WhoWhatWhy founder Russ Baker, on how a CIA experiment ruined a man’s life, was commissioned by The New York Times Magazine — which then declined to run it. Not published in the United States at the time, it ran in major publications around the world, and, later, on WhoWhatWhy. It is still explosive, and we thought it worth republishing.
You may have heard by now about the guy trying to raise money to fly a jet into a building and test 9/11’s official narrative. Here’s how that has been playing out.