07/07/2009
07/01/2009
06/22/2009
Army chaplain went to war to bring peace - Army Times
Archbishop John Nienstedt calls [Army Chaplain] Vakoc a man of peace who chose to endure the horror of war to bring the peace of Christ to America’s fighting men and women.
What an instant classic quote to describe the contradictions of an Army Chaplain in Iraq.
R.I.P.
Link: Army chaplain dies 5 years after bomb blast - Army News, news from Iraq, - Army Times.
06/19/2009
06/17/2009
LA TIMES: Los Angeles vendor pushes a balky cart through a precarious world
Arduous life of a street vendor
Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
Street vendor Amado Campos, 44, of Los Angeles, who built his own rickety vending cart that tends to tip over and spill all his food and drinks, crosses a busy offramp near downtown Los Angeles.
Amado Campos is his own boss, but he works long hours, seven days a week. His costs are up but sales are down as his customers cut back in a poor economy. And he needs a new cart.
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Link: Los Angeles vendor pushes a balky cart through a precarious world - Los Angeles Times
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06/12/2009
04/12/2009
VBS.tv: ALARMA! The Mexico City Weekly of Gore
From Bernardo Loyola's introduction ...
"I've seen very few dead people in my life. I saw my grandparents and a few friends that passed away, but all of them looked peaceful resting in their coffins. But I had never seen murdered people until recently—people lying on the sidewalk, face down in puddles of their own blood. Last May VBS producer Santiago Stelley and I spent a week with David Alvarado, the night time photographer for Alarma!, the magazine that's profiled in this piece and in this article we did for Vice a few months ago. David introduced us to his photographer buddies, Valente who works for El Universal, Gustavo "LG" Hurtado,who shoots for La Prensa (where Enrique Metinides worked for decades), and Juan Carlos "Amarillo" Alarcon who reports all night for Radio Monitor. We drove all over Mexico City in their old Beetles at full speed, running through every red light while chasing ambulances and looking for dead people from 10 at night till 5 in the morning. They were incredibly generous, open, and funny. They were not the bloodsucking, soulless paparazzi types that you might imagine someone with this job would be. They are nice people with a strange and very exciting job that is perhaps morally questionable." More ...
04/11/2009
Frontline Club: In the picture with John D. McHugh - War in Multimedia
The Frontline Club is a media club located in the heart of London that uniquely combines eating, drinking and thinking.
David Wilton
David Wilton is a bilingual quasi-Mexican from Texas who loves the border regions of the American Southwest and remote locations around the world where actual Americans are as common as cornfields in Manhattan. He used to be a hard-nosed prosecutor in El Paso, Texas, before he began defending the accused in San Francisco, California.
Border Reporter – News That Crossed The Line
Independent Journalists
- MexicoReporter.com
- PeterBergen.com
- True/Slant: Matt Taibbi
- Adventures In Light - Ed Ou, Photojournalist
- Frontline - Championing Independent Journalism
- Michael Yon - Online Magazine
- Border Reporter – News That Crossed The Line
- Dahr Jamail’s Mideast Dispatches
- News On The Line | Stories From the Borderlands
- Jihadistan | Reporting and analysis from Pakistan and Afghanistan
