Rachel Maddow doesn’t hold her tongue when she calls a conservative strategist sitting across from her, “A parasite who gets fat on American’s fears.” The strategist she was interviewing has been going around the country warning people about Obama’s health care reform. Maddow confronts him head on about who is actually funding his fear-mongering campaign.
Ending poverty has become the rallying cry of international organization, political and business leaders,philanthropists and of course celebrities. But the fight against global poverty is almost certainly doomed to fail if it is driven solely by the imperative of boosting economic growth through investment, trade, new technology or foreign aid, argues Irene Khan in her [...]
Earlier this month NEWS JUNKIE POST’s Co-Editor-in-Chief Gilbert Mercier was interviewed on Radio Islam 1450 AM in Chicago about the Patriot Act. In his interview Mercier talks about how the legislation has been detrimental to the country by unfairly targeting ordinary American citizens. He also talks about efforts in the US Senate to introduce legislation that would make the Patriot Act more just and fair.
Researchers from the UK have found that small levels of radiation could lead to heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems. The findings were published this week on the journal of PLoS Computational Biology.