Sitemap - 2023 - Dispatches with Hollie McKay

Words that Never Leave You: “I like a lot of organic food from the mountain, but the specific food itself is not important. It’s important that people just enjoy it.”

The self-styled Islamic State militant group nearly doubled its territory in Mali in less than a year. What can the US do about it?

Words that Never Leave You: “I thought of my family, my friends. I created scenes in my head of what they would be thinking. I always tried to make those scenes as positive as I could.”

Keeping the sisterhood from extinction: The struggle to save nuns in America

Words that Never Leave You: “Be grateful. Be alive. Be happy. Be careful.”

How a Buddhist government justifies slaughtering in Burma

Words that Never Leave You: “[They] can’t bring back our brother, children, our nephews. If they apologize that would be sufficient.”

Are Americans taxpayers unintentionally funding China’s military development?

Words that Never Leave You: “You have options – regardless of your surroundings – if you have self-discipline. The options are in your control, the way you respond. You are winning until you quit.”

Corruption or caretaking? U.S. Presidents notoriously award big donors with cushy ambassadorships, rather than dedicated Foreign Service Officers

Words that Never Leave You: “When you are born, your name is entered into a book in the sky with a date. That is the date you die, and there isn’t anything you can do to change that.”

The Moral Dilemma of “Talking to the Enemy”

Words that Never Leave You: “You can tell who has passion.”

The problem with Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) – it is still happening right here in the United States

A New Mom: Meeting Newborn Baby Raven, October 2023 Articles, Ukraine and Gaza

Words that Never Leave You: “I do not want people to give me food. By God, we cannot eat the food someone else buys.”

Behind America’s secret “ninja knife bomb” used to kill terrorists while leaving everything around them untouched

Words that Never Leave You: “Life can change really quickly, in a minute.”

What it is really like as a woman visiting Saudi Arabia in 2023

Words that Never Leave You: “I hope you are taking notes for God’s tribunal.”

Behind the Biggest Fraud of Our Time: More than $200 Billion of Your Tax Dollars Stolen From Two COVID Relief Programs

Words that Never Leave You: “I am not going to take that on. That is on them.”

A heartbreaking and growing crisis in America: babies born drug-dependent

Words that Never Leave You: “An eye for an eye will only make the world blind. Stop the revenge.”

What Became Of The 'Mother Of All Bombs' dropped by the U.S in Afghanistan

Words that Never Leave You: “You can tell it to stop.”

Words that Never Leave You: "The interesting thing was, I paid for karate, while judo was free, so I spent most of my time doing karate. In retrospect, it was the opposite of what I should have done."

Former POW Jessica Lynch on surviving captivity, overcoming dark days, and fulfilling her lifelong dream

Words that Never Leave You: "What kept me going through all those years in the refugee camp was going to school and church. But it was more than that..."

The husband of a 9/11 victim recalls the fight he made in her name to assist survivors and victims

August Wrap Up Video

The role U.S. authorities and Robert De Niro played in nabbing one of Italy's most wanted suspected terrorists

Words that Never Leave You: “I stopped doing all the interviews, all the mainstream ones anyway, and suddenly everything in my life got so much better."

The inner workings of the “pharmaceutical-industrial complex”

Words that Never Leave You: “But I am working for these helpless people because it is the right thing to do.”

Unraveling what is really going on in America’s so-called “military industrial complex”

Words that Never Leave You: “Imagine you are driving and realize you are going in the wrong direction. Do you continue going down that road? Or do you turn around and find a better way?”

What life is really like for an Afghan women in 2023: “Where else is there to go now? The world has forgotten.”

Words that Never Leave You: “However black a cow is, the milk is always white.”

Today, Laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world because of a “secret” CIA bombing campaign

July Roundup Video

Words that Never Leave You: “Soon we stop crying for the dead. But all we can do is cry for the living.”

What it is really like as a western tourist in Iran: Part Two

Words that Never Leave You: "There was a lot of bullying, and I changed schools several times. But there were good people too..."

What it is really like as a western tourist in Iran: Part One

Words that Never Leave You: “Never give in, never give up. You have to have hope for a better tomorrow.”

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Words that Never Leave You: “You might not change the world, but you can change the world for one person.”

The U. S’s morally repugnant decision to send Ukraine cluster munitions – on your dime

The Bloodshed of the Burmese Army: What One Survivor Has to Say

Words that Never Leave You: “It is making me braver and made me feel other people’s pain, a feeling only people in this situation would know. I feel their pain and I want to help them.”

Those in Blue: The often ignored acts of policing

Words that Never Leave You: “Tears are as necessary as rain. Both give life.”

Why the U.S. is the most dangerous place to give birth of the high-income nations, and maternal mortality is on the rise

Words that Never Leave You: “I have worked and slaved every single day of my life. And for what?”

Rape and Sexual Assault as a Weapon of War: reports of girls as young as four victim to the ongoing atrocities in Ukraine

Words that Never Leave You: "How would you feel if I went to your homeland and started recruiting your countrymen to fight its own people? Wouldn't you want to fight us back?"

How QAnon hijacked the cause of fighting human trafficking

Words that Never Leave You: "This is How She Came Into the Life."

One of the Bravest Individuals I Know: Meet the Muslim Lawyer Defending Christians and Minorities on Death Row for “Blasphemy” in Pakistan

Words that Never Leave You: "A child just needs to be loved."

Why the Health Insurance Industry in the U.S. is a Scam

Words that Never Leave You: "Only a pile of ashes is given to the family members. We cannot be silent."

An arrest warrant for Putin but nothing for Syria’s Assad – western hypocrisy and a reminder of what’s at stake

Words that Never Leave You: Meditation and Deep Breathing are the greatest gifts I could give myself

Tracing the Fentanyl path from China to the Mexican Cartels to the USA – and the deadly routes in-between

Words that Never Leave You: This is Not Your War

Memories and Moments with Incredible Mother's Around the World

Direct email for ideas/Q+A with paid subscribers...

Protecting Children from Predators in the Metaverse: We aren't ready for what comes next

From Afghanistan and Iran to Ukraine to Yemen and Beyond: Hollie's "Inside" series is now available

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Inside Hemingway's Idaho home with Hollie McKay

What is human trafficking? Things You Should Know

My controversial thoughts on "World Press Freedom Day"

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Inside Saudi Arabia with Hollie McKay

BONUS: Has the VA denied a medical claim, issued you a lower rating than you deserve, or are you battling to have your case seen or heard?

VIDEO: Darfur and the Genocide that Never Ended: Why No One Should Be Surprised by the Eruption of War in Sudan’s Capital

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Inside Yemen with Hollie McKay

BONUS: Reflections of war on ANZAC Day...

BONUS: How To Survive The Aussie Outback When Everything Is Out To Kill You

VIDEO: Why the Cartels Don’t Care about Killing Clients with Fentanyl

New E-book: The Fifty Pearls of Wisdom I have learned from survivors around the world

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Inside Iran with Hollie McKay

VIDEO: Inside Saudi Arabia’s state-of-the-art “rehab” for radicals

Meet Charlie Plumb: The Vietnam POW Who Accidentally Created The TOP GUN School

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Inside Iraq with Hollie McKay

VIDEO: Inside the Chinese Communist Party’s Barbaric Organ Harvesting of Young, Healthy Minority Citizens

BONUS: Confessions Of A U.S.-To-Mexico Hitman

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Inside Ukraine with Hollie McKay

VIDEO: Al Qaeda’s new leader is safeguarded in Iran: what to know about the strange terrorist and Tehran relationship

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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Inside Afghanistan with Hollie McKay

VIDEO: Bringing new life to "older children" through adoption

Financial Crimes: The FTX Fallout and What Went Wrong

VIDEO Twenty Years On: Iraq’s Foreign Minister illuminates lasting benefits from U.S.-led invasion

VIDEO: The National Security Threat of America’s Unprecedented National Debt

VIDEO: The China and Cartel War on Americans: Behind the biggest killer of young adults

VIDEO: What it took for a Syrian family to survive the devastating earthquake, and the role of emerging technology in rescue efforts

VIDEO: Behind the dark legacy Ernest Hemingway left behind in Idaho

Video: Dispatch from Afghanistan: Inside the underground crypto trading hub after Taliban crackdown

Dispatch from the Middle East: Inside a Gaza Village “Kibbutz”: Why Families Choose to Live on the Frontlines

VIDEO: Does the Super Bowl really bring about a massive uptick in sex trafficking?

Dispatch from Mexico: Inside the police corruption and cartel quest killing Americans with the man behind Mexico’s “Ed’s Manifesto”

Meta Medicine: Army veteran brings to life a psychedelic healing experience without the drugs

Video: Dispatch from Afghanistan: Inside the Tea Room with one of the “Gitmo Five” Bergdahl-released prisoners, now the Taliban Governor of Khost

From Blockchain To COTS, Commercial Tech In Ukraine Is Determining The Future Of Modern Warfare

Video: Dispatch from Afghanistan: Will the Taliban ever be recognized while it still promotes suicide bombing in its defense strategy?

Video: Dispatch from Afghanistan: What life is really like for women under the Taliban rule

Veterans Affairs Canada under fire for offering struggling veterans assisted suicide rather than fixing the root of their problems

Dispatch from Ukraine: What will become of the most talked about conflict in 2023?