Charles McDermid

Contractors Watching Contractors? Where Is the True Oversight? (Part I)

This is the first part of a two part series looking at the trend by the DoD to hire contractors to oversee other DoD contractors instead of doing the …

By: Robert H Bauman ,; Charles McDermid ,; Robert H Reid ,; Truthout

March 16, 2011

Troops or Private Contractors: Who Does Better in Supplying Our Troops During War?

We continue our series on the Department of Defense (DoD) with another solution from Charles Smith. As I mentioned last week, Mr. Smith was a career procurement officer whose …

By: Charles M Smith &; Charles McDermid ,; Truthout

February 23, 2011

Fix the Pentagon Part I: Create an Independent Audit Agency

Today's Solution column is written by Charles Smith, a little known, retired, Army civilian employee hero, who went up against the Iraq contractor KBR on behalf of the troops …

By: Charles M Smith &; Charles McDermid ,; Truthout

February 16, 2011

Revolutionary Violence and Ted Rall

Review: The Anti-American Manifesto (Seven Stories Press) by Ted Rall

By: Charles McDermid ,; Truthout

January 18, 2011

Whole Lotta Lies

Howard Zinn, probably the most influential American historian ever, had an amazing sense of humor when he lectured or met people in person. He could make fun of himself …

By: Charles McDermid ,; Truthout

December 1, 2010

Channeling the Pentagon Channel: The New Socialist Realism

The Pentagon Channel is not the Military Channel. The Military Channel is Hitler plus top ten lists. You wanna know about the failed plot to assassinate the Fuehrer in …

By: Charles M Young &; Charles McDermid ,; thiscantbehappening.net

June 7, 2010

Radio Free Maine: Today Augusta, Tomorrow the World

In the spring of 1994, I went to the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York, where I encountered a large red-faced man with white hair. He had the look …

By: Charles M Young &; Charles McDermid ,; thiscantbehappening.net

June 5, 2010

The Race to Control the Texas State Board of Education

The Texas State Board of Education is a lot like the weather. Everyone talks about it, nobody does anything about it.

By: Charles McDermid ,; Truthout

June 4, 2010

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