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Servants of War

by Karl Helicher

Private Military Corporations (PMCs) is the sanitized name for the mercenary armed forces that play strong and dangerous roles in wars throughout the world. Often these hired armies, when combined with the large number of support staff... Read More

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The Human Factor

by Karl Helicher

The Central Intelligence Agency is a bloated, unresponsive bureaucracy that exists to serve itself and cannot fulfill its important intelligence-gathering role, which was the reason for its creation by President Harry Truman. This... Read More

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One Nation, Divisible

by Karl Helicher

Politicians would have a better understanding of why people vote the way they do if they grasped the impact of religious diversity in their communities, states, and the nation. Religion has frequently been the overlooked variable in... Read More

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My Life as a Spy

by Karl Helicher

John A. Walker Jr., one of America’s most notorious spies, is incarcerated in the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, where he is serving a life sentence. In 1985, Walker was arrested for selling highly classified information to... Read More

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The Liberals' Moment

by Karl Helicher

The 1972 presidential election, a landslide but short-lived victory for President Richard Nixon, was a crushing loss for Democratic standard-bearer George McGovern and for his party. James O’Hara, the Democratic convention... Read More

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