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Charles McDermid

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Dec 10, 2017
Latest from 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…
by
Robert H Bauman,
Charles McDermid &
Robert H Reid,
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March 16, 2011
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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…
by
Charles M Smith &
Charles McDermid,
Truthout
February 23, 2011
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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…
by
Charles M Smith &
Charles McDermid,
Truthout
February 16, 2011
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Revolutionary Violence and Ted Rall

Review: The Anti-American Manifesto (Seven Stories Press) by Ted Rall
by
Charles McDermid,
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January 18, 2011
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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…
by
Charles McDermid,
Truthout
December 1, 2010
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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…
by
Charles M Young &
Charles McDermid,
thiscantbehappening.net
June 7, 2010
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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…
by
Charles M Young &
Charles McDermid,
thiscantbehappening.net
June 5, 2010
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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,
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June 4, 2010
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