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Richard Badalamente writes fiction and non-fiction on a variety of topics ranging from speculative fiction, and espionage, to science and technology, research, and alternative futures. He is a former US Air Force officer, and was a senior analyst with the National Security Directorate of a US government National Laboratory, where his focus was nuclear nonproliferation, counterintelligence, and counter terrorism.
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An Unexpected Error
http://anunexpectederror.blogspot.com/
Richard Badalamente was a senior analyst with a Department of Energy national laboratory. His focus was nuclear nonproliferation, counterintelligence, and counter terrorism. He was assigned to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna in 1990-92, where he authored the 1991-95 Strategic Plan for Safeguards, and assisted the IAEA in evaluating the safeguards implications of events in Iraq. In late 2002, he was detailed to the Pentagon to assist in planning for Operation Iraqi freedom. He is now a writer living in Kennewick, Washington.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 268 )
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What Now?
Republicans seem to have given up hope of blackmailing the Obama Administration into repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Read more
Posted on 15 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
While Rome Burns
While Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives "wile" away their time by shutting down the government and threatening to blow up the global economy by... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Negotiate Under Threat?
Paul Krugman"Everybody not inside the bubble realizes that Mr. Obama can’t and won’t negotiate under the threat that the House will blow up the economy if he... Read more
Posted on 10 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
It’s Even Worse Than It Looks
Thomas Mann and Norman OrnsteinThe G.O.P. has become “an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy... Read more
Posted on 10 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Law of the Land, Holding the Government Hostage, and Republican Incompetence
Robert Reich"The Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare') is the law of the land. A majority of the House and Senate voted for it, the President signed it into law, it... Read more
Posted on 10 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
East of Anywhere: America's Soweto
From: Savage Inequalities Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Illinois by Jonathan Kozol St. Louis: The other side of the tracksEast of anywhere," writes ... Read more
Posted on 08 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
Here's the Thing
According to the New York Times, Republicans planned to shutdown the government months ago in something called a "blueprint to defund Obamacare." Surprised?... Read more
Posted on 08 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Compromise, Hell!
Wendell Berry | Orion MagazineOak Fork, Letcher County, Kentucky"Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Debt Does Not Exist
VIEWPOINT: The Debt Everyone Is Freaking Out About Does Not ExistJEFF SPROSS, FEBRUARY 24, 2013Excerpts:The debt that’s got everyone worried is the part we... Read more
Posted on 06 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Federal Budget Isn't Like Your Household Budget
by L. Randall WrayWhenever a demagogue wants to whip up hysteria about federal budget deficits, he or she invariably begins with an analogy to a household’s... Read more
Posted on 06 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Path Forward
House Republicans voted down a proposal to pass a "clean" continuing resolution (CR), i.e., one that doesn't call for delaying/defunding the Affordable Care Act... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Should the United States Intervene Militarily in Syria Over the Assad Regime's...
The 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) prohibits the production, acquisition, stockpiling, transfer, retention, and use of chemical weapons (classified as... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Republicans Improve Nutrition for America's Poor
Sixteen million American children live in poverty. Many go hungry.The House of Representatives made drastic cuts to the Nation's food stamp program under a... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
It Could Happen Again
Deja vu all over again? Financial reform continues to be fought tooth and nail by financial industry lobbyists and their minions in Congress. Read more
Posted on 18 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Universal Background Checks
wouldn't have stoppedthe Navy Yard mass shooting, or theHialeah apartment shootingSanta Monica rampagePinewood Village Apartment shootingMohawk Valley... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Alien Life on Earth
Posted on 06 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The GOP's Impeachment Talk -- Criminally Negligent
Texas Representative (R-27) Blake 'Fat Face' Farenthold recently told constituents at a town hall meeting that there would be enough votes in the House to... Read more
Posted on 30 August 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
GCHQ’s Alleged Interception of Communications Under PRISM
This statement was obtained from the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament web site, July 17, 2013. INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMITTEE OF PARLIAMEN... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
An Indictment of Us All
I write this prior to knowing the outcome of the George Zimmerman trial, because for me, the outcome is immaterial. Why? Because it isn’t Zimmerman who’s on... Read more
Posted on 04 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Remembering My Dad on Father's Day
I stood there in stunned disbelief as my father’s car shot back out of my driveway and across the street into the neighbor’s driveway. Read more
Posted on 16 June 2013 FAMILY