John Farmer was senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and, as we approach the eighth anniversary, has published a book called “The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11.” We talked about it today on KTRS/St. Louis, from the lessons learned to the lessons missed, including the now-declassified documents that reveal […]
The Project On Government Oversight released a report this week about inappropriate behavior by some of the private military contractors who guard the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Witnesses say the guards worked in a “Lord Of The Flies environment,” with hazing sessions, a climate of fear and coercion, and the kind of parties that […]
Tony Zinni is a retired four-star Marine general who served as commander-in-chief of Centcom. He was also one of the first to warn of the dangers of terrorism coming out of Afghanistan pre-9/11, and then opposed the invasion of Iraq. Today on KTRS/St. Louis, I talked to Gen. Zinni about the political battle over whether […]
This may be the most stunning piece of art I have ever seen created. Kseniya Simonova won “Ukraine’s Got Talent” last week with her sand artistry, in which she portrays Germany’s invasion and occupation of her homeland during World War II, which took the lives of one in four Ukrainians. Her work is so powerful […]
The Southern Poverty Law Center has compiled new information on the rise of militias in the United States, and says they’re at a peak not seen since the 1990s. Today on KTRS/St. Louis, Mark Potok (director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Center) explained who these militia members are, how their numbers have increased since President Obama […]
When I heard about the bombings in Jakarta yesterday, my first thought was, what do these terrorists hope to achieve? Long term, I mean. If you look at the various terrorist acts in the last decade or two — the World Trade Center, the Madrid train station, the hotels in Mumbai, any place you wanna […]