OP ED by William Gindlesperger, chairman and CEO, e-LYNXX Corporation For 35 years our firm has represented many printers before the GPO. We are proud of our achievements. GPO for its part has solicited bid competition among qualified printers through a fair rotation of its vendor list, through public posting and through the availability of […]
Illegal Weapons Trafficking Grows in Mexico
This is a report about the criminal gangs who smuggle weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Among them is the group known as The Arabs, who operate from southern Texas to Central America to procure weapons for the Zetas in Mexico. By JORGE ALEJANDRO MEDELLÍN The Intelligence Group of the Mexican Army Zone (GIZ) operating […]
The Obama Nobel Is Not About Peace
We have suffered a week of apoplexy having endured a bombardment of reasons offered to justify a Nobel Prize awarded for expectations and promises rather than results. Our rationality has been addled as all corners of the MSM meandered through fantastic rationalizations. All appear to have missed the mark. The ideologically motivated radicals dominating the […]
Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze for Rockets
EDT Last spring, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Iraq got a makeover,replacing the scandal-plagued Blackwater private security company with a firm named Triple Canopy. The new $1 billion contract cemented Triple Canopy’s status as the pre-eminent provider of private security services in Iraq, with its heavily armed employees appearing side by side with senior State […]
How Did Organ Trafficking Scheme Go Unnoticed?
by Emily Witt, ProPublica The arrest of Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, the Brooklyn resident charged last month with acting as a "matchmaker" for buyers and sellers of human organs, spotlights the issue of live donor organ trafficking in the United States. It also raises a question: How could Rosenbaum ply his trade for as long as a […]
Nigeria, others race against time in the fight against malaria
WITH merely two years to meet the global targets of delivering effective, affordable protection against the debilitating disease, BEN UKWUOMA and CHUKWUMA MUANYA write that recent efforts by the international community, have led to hopes that malaria could be eliminated as a public health problem before the end of the next decade. It is a […]