Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate and former US Army officer. He has written a manuscript based on his unique military experience entitled “Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down.”. It includes a critical examination of today's leadership, international relations and national security issues and can be found online at http://www.redredsea.net/westpointhagopian/index.html. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century. In recent years he has focused on his writing, becoming an alternative media journalist. His blog site is at http://empireexposed.blogspot.co.id/. Joachim frequently contributes articles at Global Research, Lew Rockwell and Sott.net and is an editorial contributor at pan-Pacific Review of Literature.