Archive for Category: "Terrorism"
Full Show – September 10, 2011 – Fire Island, New York
If you missed the special 9/11 anniversary edition of Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio, you can listen or download the podcast of the whole show right here on PeterGreenberg.com. Peter is joined by several special guests (click here for the full guest list), many of whom reported from New York on September 11, 2001. With journalists [...]
Weekly International Travel News Roundup
With today marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, many people are wondering about the current state of our national security as newly developed, privacy-friendly body scanners appear in airports across the nation. In a related story to 9/11, Peter visits the CBS Early Show with a report on Gander, Newfoundland and its surprising [...]
Ten Years After 9/11 Refugees Return to Gander, Newfoundland
Few people have heard of Gander, Newfoundland, but this Canadian town ended up playing an unsung role in the historic events of September 11, 2001. Following the terrorist attacks, the United States shut down its airspace. Suddenly, hundreds of flights in the air were rerouted to small airports in Eastern Canada. Gander, which has a [...]
New Privacy-Friendly Body Scanning Technology Rolls Out Nationwide
As the nation focuses on airport security with the 10 year anniversary of September 11 approaching, Newark Liberty International Airport became the first New York City area airport to install the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA)’s new body scanning technology. Dallas Forth Worth International took part in the first wave of the new technology roll out [...]
Icarus Award: Snakes on a Plane, Bombs at Check-In, Nudists on a Mountain
Hurricane Irene may have pre-empted last week’s Icarus Awards, but that only gave us an additional week to seek out the most outrageous travel failures. And what a week it’s been… Snakes in the Pants On Monday, August 25, TSA agents in Miami International Airport caught a man trying to board a plane with seven [...]
Bombing of the Army Math Research Center: CBS Sunday Morning
Forty-one years ago this week, America was struck by a domestic terror attack in the name of peace. An explosion rocked the Army Math Research Center on the campus of University of Wisconsin in Madison, and Peter Greenberg was a student there. The bomb that students unleashed resulted in the first campus fatalities caused by [...]
The London Riots and the Lost Art of Conversation
The London riots caused a stir in the world news, but have they damaged the city’s tourism industry? Matthew Upchurch, CEO of Virtuoso, sits down with Peter to discuss the recent turmoil, traveling to politically unstable countries and the impact of the economy on the travel industry. Peter Greenberg: With the turmoil in London, Greece [...]
Travel Detective Actually Approves Of TSA’s New Security Policy
Want a controversial new management policy? How about teaching your employees to think and ask pointed questions? The TSA is doing just that and for once the Travel Detective agrees with them. Read his blog to find out why. The Transportation Security Administration is turning things around a little bit in Boston. They have started [...]
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