Jeremy Scahill is a war reporter who digs into stories most won’t touch. He joined me today on “America Weekend” to talk about his new documentary, “Dirty Wars,” in which he says “the war on terror is a self-fulfilling prophesy.” In explaining that, he reveals details of night raids the US military conducted in Afghanistan […]
With so much interest in Ben Affleck’s terrific movie, “Argo,” about a covert operation to get six Americans out of Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis, I dug into my archives to find an interview I did in 2004 with Rocky Sickmann, who was was a 22-year-old Marine guard at the US Embassy in Teheran, […]
Surprises in the Osama Bin Laden private paperwork that was made public today: Once tortured an Al Qaeda lieutenant for not removing all the brown M&M’s from a bowl he put out for a party. Should never have invested in franchises of tanning salon company Afghanis-Tan. Was frustrated he could never beat Ayman Al-Zawahiri at […]
The war in Afghanistan has created mental health issues for thousands of American soldiers who have been forced to serve multiple tours and then come home to a VA establishment that’s not fully prepared to help them re-enter society nor deal with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. A recent report by the Inspector […]
Mitchell Prothero is a journalist who has reported from all over the Middle East for several years and is currently based in Lebanon. While there, he has been trying to learn more about Hezbollah, the Shiite military/quasi-governmental/terrorist group based in that country. To that end, he recently challenged some Hezbollah fighters to a paintball match […]
Upon hearing the story of the JetBlue captain who went nuts on a flight yesterday and had to be subdued by passengers, I remembered a conversation I had ten years ago with a friend who was (and still is) a pilot for a major commercial airline. He was frustrated with the screeners at an airport […]