An MQ-9 Reaper drone comes into land at Kandahar Airbase in Helmand, Afghanistan. (Photo by UK Ministry of Defence) An MQ-9 Reaper drone comes into land at Kandahar Airbase in Helmand, Afghanistan. (Photo by UK Ministry of Defence) Alex Stonehill Alex is a cofounder and editor of The Seattle Globalist. He's a visual journalist whose work has been published by PBS, The Seattle Times, FRONTLINE/World and the Seattle Weekly. Alex teaches journalism in the University of Washington's Department of Communication and recently directed the documentary film Barzan.