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JOURNALIST AND MARINE CORPS VETERAN OF THE IRAQ WAR J O S H
R U S H I N G Josh Rushing has presented twentyeight episodes of Fault Lines since helping launch the show in 2009. He has covered a wide array of issues, such as NSA surveillance, immigration, and the drug war. On any given day “on location” has meant a death chamber, illegal mine shaft, cocaine lab or battlefield, while “a day in the office” has ranged from hunting seals with Inuit in the Arctic to running from riot cops in Santiago. A veteran of Al Jazeera English’s earliest days in 2005, Josh has been a leading presence on the air since the channel’s beginning. Josh authored
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Mission Al Jazeera: Seek the Truth, Build a Bridge, Change the World, published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2007. His writings and photography have been widely published from AlJazeera.com to National Geographic. Josh became known to audiences around the world as the US Marine featured in the 2004 documentary film Control Room. He resigned from the the corps as a captain after fourteen years. Josh has four children and a very, very understanding wife.