Yesterday, people from across the world joined together in 188 countries to dig community gardens, install solar panels, plant trees and demonstrate to push their respective leaders to address the urgent issues of climate change and global warming. The global movement, with the organization 350.org in the lead, wanted to send a clear global message [...]
Welcome to Anita Bryant’s America. Gay kids are being taunted at alarming rates. Violent incidents against gays have spiked in culturally tolerant cities like New York in startling numbers. And politicians are openly denouncing the “gay lifestyle” and campaigning on keeping gay teachers out of schools. What’s wrong with this picture? It’s bad enough to [...]
Today is the world day against the death penalty, and Amnesty International is focusing its attention on the United States in the human rights organization global push to end the use of capital punishment. The United States is the only country in the Americas that carried out executions in 2009. The paragraph below, from Amnesty [...]
The September jobs report was just released and demonstrates that America is on a far slower path to recovery than anyone originally predicted. Despite this, the shedding of government jobs cloaks a glimmer of hope: more private sector jobs have been created this year than during the entire Bush administration. Read that again: 2010 has had more private job creation than during the entire 8 year tenure of George W. Bush.
As we enter the dubious tenth year of the War in Afghanistan, News Junkie Post Editor-in-Chief, Gilbert Mercier, who has extensively covered the politics and ramifications surrounding the war, was interviewed on the international television network RT America. He addresses the complex issues that have pushed the country into a seemingly endless military quagmire. “I [...]
