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]'''Mark Ames''' is a ]-based ] ] and editor. He is the founding editor of the ] biweekly '']'' in Moscow, to which he regularly contributes. Ames has also written for the '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', , and other periodicals, and is the author of three books.
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'''Mark Ames''' (born October 3, 1965) is a ]-based American ]. He was the editor of the biweekly '']'' in Moscow, from its founding in 1997 until its closure in 2008. Ames has also written for the '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', ''Птюч Connection'', '']'' (Russian edition), and is the author of three books. He co-hosts the ] ''Radio War Nerd'' along with ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd|title=Gary Brecher & Mark Ames is creating Radio War Nerd Podcast}}</ref>


==Biography== ==Biography==
Ames was raised in ], where he attended an ] private school. Ames is ].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-07-30 |title=The Kings of Garbage, or, The ADL Spied on Me and All I Got Was This Lousy Index Card - Pacific Standard |newspaper=Pacific Standard |url=https://psmag.com/news/kings-garbage-76228 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730061545/https://psmag.com/news/kings-garbage-76228 |archive-date=2022-07-30 |access-date=2022-10-14 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-01 |title=THE EXILE - Hate Thy Neighbor As Thyself - By Mark Ames - Book Review |url=http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6791&IBLOCK_ID=35 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801015818/http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6791&IBLOCK_ID=35 |archive-date=2021-08-01 |access-date=2022-10-14 }}</ref> He graduated from ] in 1983. He later wrote about a 2003 alleged bombing attempt at his alma mater in ''Going Postal—Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond''.<ref>{{cite book|title= Going Postal—Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond}}</ref>
Born in 1965, Ames was raised in ], a then-provincial town in the ]'s Silicon Valley, where he attended an Episcopalian private school. His Saratoga upbringing produced a lasting influence on his writing.


After leaving Saratoga, Ames attended ] while living with his father (his parents had divorced when Ames was eight years old). He later described how his college years shaped his later political views in a section of the eXile book (''The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia''): After leaving Saratoga, Ames attended the ], while living with his father (his parents divorced when Ames was eight years old). He later described how his college years shaped his later political views in a section of the book ''The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia'':
:"I was a student at Berkeley in the late Reagan years. We had a lot of ideas back then, big dreams about getting famous and destroying the "Beigeocracy" that we thought stifled and controlled American Letters. Everything seemed possible then: world war, literary fame ... Anyway, something Really Big, with us at the center of it all. We'd ridicule the boring lefties, our enemies. We'd drop all sorts of drugs and go to the underground shows: Scratch Acid, Husker Du, Sonic Youth. It felt like something might happen, and soon." () {{quote|I was a student at Berkeley in the late Reagan years. We had a lot of ideas back then, big dreams about getting famous and destroying the "Beigeocracy" that we thought stifled and controlled American Letters. Everything seemed possible then: world war, literary fame ... Anyway, something Really Big, with us at the center of it all. We'd ridicule the boring lefties, our enemies. We'd drop all sorts of drugs and go to the underground shows: ], ], ]. It felt like something might happen, and soon.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Metroactive Features &#124; Mark Ames of 'the eXile'|url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.25.00/cover/exile-0021.html|access-date=2023-01-07|website=www.metroactive.com}}</ref>}}


After college, Ames "lived in poverty and vileness" ("жил в бедности и злобе," according to his publisher's biographical sketch) in ], ], ], and ], and played in a short-lived punk band. () In the eXile book he recalls this period of his life as a dull one: After college, Ames lived in ], ], ], and ], and played briefly in a punk band. He also tried writing screenplays.<ref name=Obs2000619>{{cite news |url= http://observer.com/2000/06/from-russia-with-lust/ |title=From Russia With Lust |first= George |last= Gurley |work= ] |date= June 19, 2000 }}</ref>
:"The Bush years marked my decline, the Fall of my empire of dreams. When Bush and his golfing buddies got tossed out in '92, I started thinking, hey, Bush and I have a lot in common. Except in one small respect: Bush was a filthy-rich historical figure, whereas I was an unemployed, barely-published, aging zero."


It was during this time that Ames began his gradual migration from California to Moscow. In August ] he visited Europe, sojourning for two weeks in ] (then Leningrad). "That 14-day Homeric adventure on the streets of Leningrad really made an impression," Ames wrote; and though he returned to the ] to live in ], he continued thinking of ], and delved into Russian literature. At this time Ames also suffered from a painful case of scabies (possibly contracted through a sexual encounter in Russia), whose severity allegedly merited a case-study mention in the ] (). After spending mid '92 to early '93 in ], Ames moved to ]. In 1995 he published in the English-language Moscow newspaper '']'', and was shortly thereafter hired by its competitor ''Living Here''. In 1997 he left to establish '']'', where he remains as writer and editor. In August 1991, he visited Europe, spending two weeks in ]. Though he returned to live in ], he continued thinking of ], and delved into ]. After spending mid-1992 to early 1993 in Prague, Ames moved to ]. In 1995, he published "The Rise and Fall of Moscow's Expat 'Royalty'" in the English-language Moscow newspaper '']'', and was shortly thereafter hired by its competitor ''Living Here''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/1995/10/04/032.html |title=missing |url-status=}}{{deadlink|date=September 2023}}</ref>

=== Time at ''the eXile'' ===
In 1997, he established '']'', for which he was writer and editor. Shortly after founding it, he hired ].<ref name="van" /> In ''The eXile'', Ames wrote on politics, ], prostitution, and drug use. The paper played practical jokes on '']'' staffers and public figures including ].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Longman|first1=Martin|title=Matt Taibbi's tone on Russian interference coverage is all wrong|url=http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/04/04/matt-taibbis-skepticism-of-the-russian-hacking-coverage-is-all-wrong/|work=Washington Monthly|date=April 4, 2017}}</ref> In 2000 Ames and Taibbi published ''The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia.''<ref name="CR2000713" /> '']'' contributor Martha Bayne reviewed the book, and wrote: "The product of Ames and Taibbi's union is rude, cruel, pornographic, self-aggrandizing, infantile, and breathtakingly misogynist, with a dozen pages of news and another dozen of gonzo entertainment listings. It's also one of the biggest success stories of the tiny, incestuous world of expatriate Moscow. Pranks are sharper – and meaner – than others, but they're all conceived under a towering belief in the righteousness of the paper's mission.<ref name="CR2000713">{{cite news |url= http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/beast-in-the-east/Content?oid=902762 |title= Beast in the East |first= Martha |last= Bayne |work= Chicago Reader |date= July 13, 2000 }}</ref>

In June 2008, ''the eXile'' website was closed down by the Russian government and Ames returned to the U.S.<ref name="van">{{cite news|last1=Verini|first1=James|title=Lost Exile|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/02/exile-201002|work=]|date=February 2010|language=en}}</ref> Ames continues to edit ''the eXile'' in an online-only format: ''eXiledonline''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The eXiled: We're Back, And We're Very Pissed Off - By Mark Ames - The eXiled|url=http://exiledonline.com/the-exiled-were-back-and-were-very-pissed-off/|access-date=2023-01-07|language=en}}</ref>

=== After ''the eXile'' ===
Ames became senior editor at ] Not Safe For Work Corporation website in August 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Carr|first=Paul|date=August 24, 2012|title=Mark Ames Joins NSFWCORP as Senior Editor|url=https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/taking-ames/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601070803/https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/taking-ames/|archive-date=June 1, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2021|website=NSFWCORP}}</ref>

==== ''Radio War Nerd'' ====
Ames is currently the co-host of the popular podcast ''Radio War Nerd'' with ], which has more than 4,800 subscribers on ]. Started in August 2015, the podcast covers current geopolitical events and ongoing military engagements, as well as specific analysis of historical wars, such as the ], the ], and the ], among others.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patreon |url=https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd/about |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=www.patreon.com}}</ref>

According to ] of ], in February 2023 Ames was the first journalist to interview American journalist ] and discuss his investigation alleging that the United States government was responsible for the ].<ref name="The Sy Hersh Effect">{{Cite web|title=The Sy Hersh Effect|date=16 February 2023 |url=https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/02/16/the-sy-hersh-effect-killing-the-messenger-ignoring-the-message/ |website=] |author=Kelley Beaucar Vlahos |access-date=3 September 2023}}</ref>


==Bibliography== ==Bibliography==
*''The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia'' (ISBN 0802136524). Co-authored with ], and published in ] with a forward by ]. *'']'' ({{ISBN|0-8021-3652-4}}). Co-authored with ], and published in 2000 with a foreword by ].
*''В Россию с любовью (Записки американского изгоя)'', Мама Пресс, ]. (ISBN 5-902382-02-5) . The title can be translated as ''In Russia with Love (Notes from an American Outcast)''. *''В Россию с любовью (Записки американского изгоя)'', Мама Пресс, 2002. ({{ISBN|5-902382-02-5}}) . The title can be translated as ''To Russia with Love (Notes from an American Outcast)''.
*''Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond'', ] (ISBN 1932360824). In this work Ames argues that "killing sprees" at U.S. workplace and schools are acts of political insurgency rather than ordinary crimes or the actions of disturbed individuals. *''Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond'', 2005 ({{ISBN|1-932360-82-4}}).


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==External links== ==External links==
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* - an English language, Moscow-based, semi-weekly alternative paper * - the new site of the Exile
⚫ * interview with Amy Goodman, Greg Palast, and Dan Briody December 8, 2003
*'' (Silicon Valley Metro, May 25-31, 2000)
* ''AlterNet'', October 3, 2005, - interview with Ames
*'' (Reason Magazine, January 2001)
*''AlterNet'', ] 2005, - interview with Ames * - Our Man in Moscow: The true story of how a nice kid from Los Gatos moved to Moscow, pranked the media and ended up in the crosshairs of the Russian government and a U.S. congressman

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Latest revision as of 19:05, 13 October 2024

American journalist (born 1965)
Mark Ames
Born (1965-10-03) October 3, 1965 (age 59)
Saratoga, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Occupation(s)Journalist, political writer

Mark Ames (born October 3, 1965) is a New York-based American journalist. He was the editor of the biweekly the eXile in Moscow, from its founding in 1997 until its closure in 2008. Ames has also written for the New York Press, PandoDaily, The Nation, Playboy, The San Jose Mercury News, Alternet, Птюч Connection, GQ (Russian edition), and is the author of three books. He co-hosts the podcast Radio War Nerd along with John Dolan.

Biography

Ames was raised in Saratoga, California, where he attended an Episcopalian private school. Ames is Jewish. He graduated from Saratoga High School in 1983. He later wrote about a 2003 alleged bombing attempt at his alma mater in Going Postal—Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond.

After leaving Saratoga, Ames attended the University of California, Berkeley, while living with his father (his parents divorced when Ames was eight years old). He later described how his college years shaped his later political views in a section of the book The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia:

I was a student at Berkeley in the late Reagan years. We had a lot of ideas back then, big dreams about getting famous and destroying the "Beigeocracy" that we thought stifled and controlled American Letters. Everything seemed possible then: world war, literary fame ... Anyway, something Really Big, with us at the center of it all. We'd ridicule the boring lefties, our enemies. We'd drop all sorts of drugs and go to the underground shows: Scratch Acid, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth. It felt like something might happen, and soon.

After college, Ames lived in New York City, Boston, San Francisco, and Prague, and played briefly in a punk band. He also tried writing screenplays.

In August 1991, he visited Europe, spending two weeks in Saint Petersburg. Though he returned to live in Foster City, California, he continued thinking of Russia, and delved into Russian literature. After spending mid-1992 to early 1993 in Prague, Ames moved to Moscow. In 1995, he published "The Rise and Fall of Moscow's Expat 'Royalty'" in the English-language Moscow newspaper The Moscow Times, and was shortly thereafter hired by its competitor Living Here.

Time at the eXile

In 1997, he established the eXile, for which he was writer and editor. Shortly after founding it, he hired Matt Taibbi. In The eXile, Ames wrote on politics, organized crime in Russia, prostitution, and drug use. The paper played practical jokes on Pravda staffers and public figures including Mikhail Gorbachev. In 2000 Ames and Taibbi published The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia. Chicago Reader contributor Martha Bayne reviewed the book, and wrote: "The product of Ames and Taibbi's union is rude, cruel, pornographic, self-aggrandizing, infantile, and breathtakingly misogynist, with a dozen pages of news and another dozen of gonzo entertainment listings. It's also one of the biggest success stories of the tiny, incestuous world of expatriate Moscow. Pranks are sharper – and meaner – than others, but they're all conceived under a towering belief in the righteousness of the paper's mission.

In June 2008, the eXile website was closed down by the Russian government and Ames returned to the U.S. Ames continues to edit the eXile in an online-only format: eXiledonline.

After the eXile

Ames became senior editor at Paul Carr's Not Safe For Work Corporation website in August 2012.

Radio War Nerd

Ames is currently the co-host of the popular podcast Radio War Nerd with John Dolan, which has more than 4,800 subscribers on Patreon. Started in August 2015, the podcast covers current geopolitical events and ongoing military engagements, as well as specific analysis of historical wars, such as the American Civil War, the Chechen War, and the Iraq War, among others.

According to Kelley Beaucar Vlahos of Responsible Statecraft, in February 2023 Ames was the first journalist to interview American journalist Seymour Hersh and discuss his investigation alleging that the United States government was responsible for the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.

Bibliography

References

  1. "Gary Brecher & Mark Ames is creating Radio War Nerd Podcast".
  2. "The Kings of Garbage, or, The ADL Spied on Me and All I Got Was This Lousy Index Card - Pacific Standard". Pacific Standard. 2022-07-30. Archived from the original on 2022-07-30. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
  3. "THE EXILE - Hate Thy Neighbor As Thyself - By Mark Ames - Book Review". 2021-08-01. Archived from the original on 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
  4. Going Postal—Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond.
  5. "Metroactive Features | Mark Ames of 'the eXile'". www.metroactive.com. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  6. Gurley, George (June 19, 2000). "From Russia With Lust". Observer.com.
  7. "missing".
  8. ^ Verini, James (February 2010). "Lost Exile". Vanity Fair.
  9. Longman, Martin (April 4, 2017). "Matt Taibbi's tone on Russian interference coverage is all wrong". Washington Monthly.
  10. ^ Bayne, Martha (July 13, 2000). "Beast in the East". Chicago Reader.
  11. "The eXiled: We're Back, And We're Very Pissed Off - By Mark Ames - The eXiled". Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  12. Carr, Paul (August 24, 2012). "Mark Ames Joins NSFWCORP as Senior Editor". NSFWCORP. Archived from the original on June 1, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  13. "Patreon". www.patreon.com. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  14. Kelley Beaucar Vlahos (16 February 2023). "The Sy Hersh Effect". responsiblestatecraft.org. Retrieved 3 September 2023.

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