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Mark A. Rogers

Pre-Existing Conditions? Whose Pray Tell?

by Mark A. Rogers 5 January 2010 BioPsychosocial Health

DEA rips NYC-funded handbook on heroin ‘Step-by-step instruction on how to inject a poison,’ drug agent says NEW YORK – A New York City-funded guidebook for heroin users offers information on how to prepare drugs carefully and care for veins to avoid infection. However, the state’s top official with the Drug Enforcement Administration said the [...]

Tagged as: Bloomberg, DEA, handbook, heroin, NYC

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Tomorrow’s War

by Mark A. Rogers 5 January 2010 Ethnopolitical Warfare

Yemen Says Offensive Launched Against al-Qaida U.S. Embassy in San’a reopens after deadly raid deals with imminent threat U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, who visited Yemen in August, said an American working in Yemen told him that “Iraq was yesterday’s war. Afghanistan is today’s war and if we do not act pre-emptively now, Yemen will be [...]

Tagged as: al-Qaida, deadly raid, imminent threat, launched, offensive, tomorrow's war, yemen

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The Plot Thickens

by Mark A. Rogers 4 January 2010 Breaking News

Jordanian Double-Agent Killed CIA Officers Officials: Perpetrator of Afghan attack was supposed to infiltrate al-Qaida By Robert Windrem and Richard Engel, NBC News http://bit.ly/7z8KDG Being trained in both clinical and forensic psychology, I know the complexity and skill sets called on when practitioners of “all flavors” suit up to take on and mitigate violence risk [...]

Tagged as: al-Qaida, CIA officers, double-agent, infiltrate, perpetrator. Afghan attack

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Jordan Emerges as Key CIA Counterterrorism Ally

by Mark A. Rogers 4 January 2010 Terrorism/Counterterrorism

For readers following the recent attack on CIA and its loss of employees comes another important development highlighting a partnership U.S. officials described as crucial to their counterterrorism strategy. My gratitude and respect goes out to Jordan who is playing, as Joby Warick, Washington Post Staff Writer reports, “an increasingly vital role in the fight [...]

Tagged as: ally, CIA, counterterrorism, Jordan, pro-U.S. policy, recent attack, terrorism, war

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Muslim-Hindu Punk Rock Bands Part of New Movement

by Mark A. Rogers 3 January 2010 Insights Without Borders

Russell Contreras, Associated Press Writer, (http://alturl.com/ck56) focuses on a punk rock revolutionary movement that may be using music I think to grow an anti-establishment subculture to contend with “Trust your Neighbors But Brand Your Stock.” Contreras contends that this anti-establishment subculture is “borne of religiously conservative communities.” Is flower power, originating in Berkley California, re-emerging [...]

Tagged as: flower power, Muslim-Hindu, new movement, punk rock

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Silent Heroes, Mighty Patriots

by Mark A. Rogers 31 December 2009 Breaking News

My thoughts, prayers and deepest gratitude go out to the 7 CIA employees killed and 6 others wounded Wednesday in a terrorist attack on an agency base in Afghanistan. Left behind are the families: spouses, children and extended family members who must mourn, eventually heal in some fashion, and find the courage to go on [...]

Tagged as: agency base, CIA, employees, killed, Leon Panetta, mighty patriots, silent heroes, terrorist attack

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The Celebrity Year In Review

by Mark A. Rogers 22 December 2009 Our Universe of Discourse

While most of the dumbed down journalists (can you spell or cogently define critical thinking skills??!!) who ACTUALLY go to school and then graduate with a supposed (I guess) creditable degree from departments of journalism, who then go on to form a “set scrum” or “loose scrum” for their newsholics and gossipholics constituencies—The Celebrity Year [...]

Tagged as: branding, celebrity, critical, dumbed down, journalists, neighbors, review, scrum, skills, stock, thinking, Tiger Woods, trust, year

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Where Is All Our Religion Going? What Must We Do To Find It Again?

by Mark A. Rogers 13 April 2009 Religion

Somehow, somewhere in our global village, I knew this day would come. And I can’t sit here amongst you all in good faith and pretend that I am all that surprised. I too can almost anticipate your nonverbal reactions to this cynicism before your microfacial expressions confirm your responses and comments. Since I am in [...]

Tagged as: feed, global village, good faith, heaven, hell, rabbi, Religion, slum dog millionaire, spoons

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