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Racism and Discrimination: More About Poverty than Race

Only a story about race, sex and money could have displaced from the headlines the sabre rattling from the United States, the European…

April 30, 20146 CommentsRead More

News Junkie Post: The Challenge of Truly Independent Global Journalism

News Junkie Post: The Challenge of Truly Independent Global Journalism

By Dady Chery and Gilbert Mercier When News Junkie Post was founded in early June 2009, many people asked us why?  What was…

December 29, 20131 CommentRead More

Black Friday: An Orgy of Trinkets and Baubles

Black Friday: An Orgy of Trinkets and Baubles

So, as you get home and fire up your new toy, and stuff the completely unnecessary amount of packaging into your garbage pail,…

November 27, 20131 CommentRead More

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BRICS Bank: A Powerful Challenge to the IMF and the World Bank

BRICS Bank: A Powerful Challenge to the IMF and the World Bank

Breaking strangleholds of international finance can seem a near impossible task. The provision of finance to developing states, and sometimes developed states humbled by the markets, has tended…

July 20, 20141 CommentRead More

Sweden’s Politically Motivated Persecution of Wikileaks’ Assange

Sweden’s Politically Motivated Persecution of Wikileaks’ Assange

For more than two years, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been a de facto political prisoner, confined to the grounds of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Back in…

June 17, 20141 CommentRead More

Ukraine’s Crisis: Economic Sanctions Could Trigger a Global Depression

Ukraine’s Crisis: Economic Sanctions Could Trigger a Global Depression

The referendum in Crimea on March 16, 2014 will probably attach the peninsula to the Russian federation. While it is unlikely that NATO will intervene and seek a…

March 15, 2014Comments OffRead More

Kafkaesque World of Data Mining by the NSA, Search Engines and Social Media

Kafkaesque World of Data Mining by the NSA, Search Engines and Social Media

In the surreal world we live in, reality has become stranger than fiction. The information super highway could have produced a completely transparent world, yet the elusive corporate…

October 28, 20131 CommentRead More

Global Police State Calls for Globalization of Dissent and Protest

Global Police State Calls for Globalization of Dissent and Protest

A report from The International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations presents alarming case studies of protest suppression and criminalization of political and social dissent around the world. Ironically,…

October 11, 20132 CommentsRead More

The United States’ Obscene Wealth Inequality

The United States’ Obscene Wealth Inequality

By Gilbert Mercier  and  Dady Chery In the past 33 years, the United States has become a study in blatant and obscene contrasts between the rich and poor.…

September 23, 20132 CommentsRead More

A Tale of Two Concentration Camps: Guantanamo and Ruhleben

A Tale of Two Concentration Camps: Guantanamo and Ruhleben

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness… it was the spring…

September 18, 20134 CommentsRead More

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Gilbert Mercier Discusses Ukraine’s Crisis on RT’s CrossTalk

Gilbert Mercier Discusses Ukraine’s Crisis on RT’s CrossTalk

As the rhetoric for sanctions on Russia heats up in Washington DC with regard to Ukraine, News Junkie Post Editor in Chief, Gilbert Mercier, was…

April 19, 20141 CommentRead More

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BRICS Bank: A Powerful Challenge to the IMF and the World Bank

BRICS Bank: A Powerful Challenge to the IMF and the World Bank

Breaking strangleholds of international finance can seem a near impossible task. The provision of finance to developing states, and sometimes developed states humbled by the markets, has tended…

July 20, 20141 CommentRead More

BRICS’ Economic Power: China Makes Strides in Latin America

BRICS’ Economic Power: China Makes Strides in Latin America

By Mateo Pimentel It is no secret that China is changing Latin America. Heedless of Washington’s interests, China, one of BRIC’s (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) most…

June 26, 20141 CommentRead More

Ukraine’s Crisis: Economic Sanctions Could Trigger a Global Depression

Ukraine’s Crisis: Economic Sanctions Could Trigger a Global Depression

The referendum in Crimea on March 16, 2014 will probably attach the peninsula to the Russian federation. While it is unlikely that NATO will intervene and seek a…

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Liberate History to Conjure a Better Future

Liberate History to Conjure a Better Future

A tragic event etched a deep scar in one’s psyche, and the good life’s exhilaration became a thing of the past. Then time stood still.…

July 12, 20144 CommentsRead More

Poetry Is a Tunnel, a Forest in the Human Heart

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Ukraine and Syria: In Orwellian Times, Revolution is Imperialism

Ukraine and Syria: In Orwellian Times, Revolution is Imperialism

We live in the times that George Orwell predicted in his groundbreaking novel 1984.  A time…

April 13, 20144 CommentsRead More

Ukraine: The New Cold War Heats Up

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Antarctica’s Accelerating Ice Collapse: Massive Sea Level Rise in Decades

Antarctica’s Accelerating Ice Collapse: Massive Sea Level Rise in Decades

Imagine Antarctica. Imagine an island, with mountains, peaks, ridges, and valleys. Imagine further that a thick…

May 19, 20148 CommentsRead More

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Spin and Self Delusion: Ignorance Is Bliss

Spin and Self Delusion: Ignorance Is Bliss

I discovered a television show called Catfish while I was lying down over the last few…

July 7, 20141 CommentRead More

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Reset of Imperialist Borders: A Reaction Against Globalization

Reset of Imperialist Borders: A Reaction Against Globalization

People all over the world, including the Scots, Catalans, Tuaregs, Crimeans, Kurds, Pashtuns, Basques and Palestinians…

May 5, 20146 CommentsRead More

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