Author: George Vasilopoulos

Armed protesters confused entitlement with freedom when they rallied against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over a 20-year running land dispute with a Nevada rancher. A week-long standoff ended when guz-crazed Tea Partiers pressed the BLM into abandoning their attempts to restore law. Last week, BLM agents attempted to round up over 300 head of cattle because rancher Cliven Bundy has refused to pay $1.35 a month per cow-calf pair to graze on public lands since 1993. Bundy owes the federal government over $1 million. The debt prompted the federal government into ordering Bundy to remove the...

For the first time in world history, the 10 highest paid CEOs in the US all received more than $100 million a year in direct compensation, and two of them took home billion dollar paychecks. Understand, all that is after Americans went through all that public drama and soul-searching where they were holding public media events and shareholder meetings asking that those ridiculous rhetorical questions, like, is the system broken?  Should management really be making 600 to 800 dollars for every one dollar an hour that a worker makes?  As double-digit increases every year for top management takes place,...

It’s Friday, you’ve been at work for several hours. Your coffee is starting to get cold and that’s when the announcement comes over the speaker, “Code Gray.” A shooter is in the building. Moments later, you hear shouts, doors slamming, pounding and the blast of a firearm. This isn’t real. It’s an exercise being held to test the emergency preparedness of a facility and its staff and it’s known as an “Active Shooter Drill”. In its most common form, the active shooter drill is an orchestrated and deliberate practice. Administrators are notified in advance and faculty are made aware...

Liz Wahl’s recent resignation from Russia Today (RT), due to the network’s coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine territory, was nothing more than a secretive power play by neoconservatives desperate to revive Cold War tensions, according to a new investigation by Truthdig. Behind the coverage of Wahl’s dramatic protest, a cadre of neoconservatives was celebrating a public relations coup. Desperate to revive the Cold War, head off further cuts to the defense budget and restore the legitimacy they lost in the ruins of Iraq, the tightknit group of neoconservative writers and stewards had opened up a new PR front...

On Friday, tensions mounted in Ukraine’s Crimea region. Russian forces, already in control of much of Crimea, expanded their control of the region this week, prompting President Obama to issue idle threats to Russia. Obama warned that “the United States will stand with the international community in affirming that there will be costs for any military intervention in Ukraine.” Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling to Kiev (Kyiv) to meet with Ukrainian leaders. Obama is considering asset freezes, travel visa bans, and sanctions to punish Russia. Sec. Kerry has said that the administration is considering “all options”...