Ken Silva

A Middle American Town is Being Sacrificed to the Cold War

by Ken Silva | Apr 25, 2023 | Featured Articles

The Department of Energy uses words such as “remediation,” “decommission,” and “deactivation” to describe what’s going on in the tiny Appalachian town of Piketon, Ohio—the home of a facility that was used to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs during the Cold War. But Piketon residents say that the DOE is actively poisoning them. That’s because the DOE is conducting open-air demolitions of buildings tainted with enriched uranium, plutonium and other radioactive material, according to the residents. Vina Colley, the president of Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety, or PRESS,...

‘Aryan Republican Army’ Linked to OKC Bombing in New Showtime Series

by Ken Silva | Apr 19, 2023 | Featured Articles

“Robbing banks was never the point...Payback’s coming, and it’s coming sooner than you think,” said a Neo-Nazi bank robber named “Wild Bill” in Showtime’s Waco: The Aftermath, which premiered Friday. Wild Bill’s statement was a foreshadowing of the Oklahoma City bombing. The new Showtime series tracks in dramatic fashion the time period from the April 19, 1993, Waco massacre to the OKC bombing exactly two years later. So what did a character named Wild Bill have to do with the deadliest terrorist attack in American history? According to the FBI, Timothy McVeigh acted alone when he murdered...

How One Undercover FBI Agent Infiltrated BLM and the Militia Movement

by Ken Silva | Apr 12, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

In August 2020, an FBI undercover agent code-named “Red” unsuccessfully tried to foment a plot to assassinate Colorado’s attorney general. The next month, an FBI undercover agent with the same code-name and physical description played a major role in the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. After reviewing audio recordings and other information, three people involved in the Whitmer case have concluded that the “Red” in Colorado is the same person as Michigan “Red,” whose real name is special agent Timothy Bates. Indeed, in both cases, “Red” is described as 6 feet 2 inches...

All-Black Militia Leader Speaks Ahead of Sentencing

by Ken Silva | Nov 8, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

It was an incident in Louisville one night in September 2020 that lasted scarcely eight seconds: all-black militia leader John Johnson exited his vehicle, turned on a flashlight attached to his AR-15 rifle, and scanned a downtown rooftop before walking to a nearby park to peacefully protest the murder of Breonna Taylor. On Wednesday, Johnson is set to be sentenced for this, facing up to 20 years imprisonment for his actions. That’s because, unbeknownst to the former leader of the “Not Fucking Around Coalition” (NFAC), there were law enforcement officers surveilling protestors from the...

Ex-Nazi with OKC Bombing Connection To Receive Taxpayer Funded Sex-Change in Prison

by Ken Silva | Nov 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, OKC

Your tax dollars are funding the sex change of an ex neo-Nazi tied to the OKC bombing. Last month, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) disclosed in court records that it’s searching for someone to conduct a sex change on a biological male inmate residing in a women’s correctional facility in Texas. The recipient of this sex change isn’t your typical gender dysphoric inmate, such as they are. The prisoner, Peter Kevin Langan, who now goes by the first name Donna, is the former leader of the domestic terrorist group Aryan Republican Army (ARA), a gang of neo-Nazi bank robbers with ties to the...

Update: Arrest Warrant for Ray Epps Was Issued in 2016

by Ken Silva | Sep 1, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Ray Epps might not face charges for trespassing on Capitol Hill grounds and encouraging others to do the same, but he could be wanted for allegedly trespassing on someone’s property in Pennsylvania. The Libertarian Institute initially reported last month on a 2015 trespassing incident involving Epps, the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill protestor who initially appeared on the FBI’s Capitol Violence Most Wanted list, only to be silently removed. With Epps facing no charges despite videos showing him encouraging others to breach the Capitol, sites such as Revolver News and politicians including...

Subsidizing Hate: The FBI’s Role in Revitalizing the Aryan Nations

by Ken Silva | Jul 28, 2022 | Featured Articles

When reading the recently released book on racist extremism, “A History of Hate in Ohio,” I was struck by a statistic about the growth of the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations between the time of the Waco massacre in 1993 and the Oklahoma City bombing two years later. “In 1993 Aryan Nations was present in only three states. As Klanwatch reported in March 1995, Aryan Nations staged an alarming comeback in 1994,” write authors Michael Brooks and Bob Fitrakis. “Aided by money from the Aryan Republican Army [a domestic terrorist group that committed numerous armed robberies], the Idaho-based group...

SCOOP: Ray Epps Silent on 2015 Criminal Citation

by Ken Silva | Jul 19, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

On the heels of speaking to The New York Times about accusations of being an FBI informant who helped incite the January 6 Capitol Hill riot, Arizona man Ray Epps has declined to answer questions about a 2015 criminal trespass citation he received in Pennsylvania—a matter whose resolution is unclear. Speculation that Epps (full name James Ray Epps Sr.) may be a “fed” has circulated ever since Revolver News published a two-part deep dive into him in late 2021. Revolver News questioned why Epps hasn’t been charged in relation to January 6, despite video footage showing him urging protestors to...

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Ken Silva has been a reporter for more than 10 years, working in places such as the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, and the United States. His favorite writers include Annie Jacobsen and Wendy Painting, and he thinks Robert Nozick's "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" is highly underrated among libertarians today.