About Us

Welcome to News Junkie Post (NJP), a global news website featuring relevant articles and videos on world news, US news, politics, analysis, commentaries, and opinions. NJP deals with a wide array of topics ranging from human rights, philosophy, psychology, entertainment, and the environment. At NJP, we don’t aggregate other news sources. Instead, you will find original articles written by our editing staff and contributors.

News Junkie Post is a strictly independent news website. We are not owned or controlled by any corporate entities and are not influenced by any political agendas. With the use of social media, NJP is helping to strengthen the dissemination of news and analysis that can help people make more informed decisions and/or raise people’s awareness on issues not covered by corporate controlled mainstream media.

News Junkie Post was founded in June 2009 by journalists and authors Gilbert Mercier, Dolores M. Bernal, and Jason Leopold.

Who Is Talking About Us?
NJP stories and writers have been featured on: NBC, NPR, The Huffington Post, The Raw Story, The Drudge Report, Russia TV (RT America), AlHurra TV, Truthout, Alternet, Global Research Canada, Radio Islam, and many more.

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Editor-in-Chief

Gilbert Mercier is a French journalist, photojournalist and filmmaker- writer/concept writer, director, producer and art director- based in the United States since 1983. Mercier’s extensive photo coverage of New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina received international praise.

Gilbert Mercier has done on air radio and TV appearances for Radio Islam, RT America, and Al Hurra TV. Mercier’s articles have been re-published by Truthout , Alternet and Global Research Canada. In the early 1980′s, Mercier hosted and produced the radio show “Performance” in France.

Mercier is member of the National Press Photographer Association and of the Art Directors Guild of America. Gilbert Mercier co-founded News Junkie Post with journalists Dolores M. Bernal and Jason Leopold in June 2009, and is NJP‘s Editor in chief.

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Our Editors

Liam Fox , Chief Managing Editor of NJP, is a writer, journalist, political analyst, public speaker, political cartoonist, artist, and musician. Mr. Fox has appeared on National Public Radio’s (NPR) “All Things Considered,” RT, Voice of Russia, and on Al Hurra TV as a political analyst. His written work has been distributed by various independent outlets. His career spans nearly three decades of professional experience including consulting for international government organizations, NGO’s, and grass-roots organizations.

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Ole Ole Olson is NJP’s Senior News Editor and Chief News Media Strategist. Olson worked on the first campaign for US Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) before beginning a career in archaeology. In the years since, Olson has lived all across the United States, and traveled extensively around the world, visiting four continents. He began blogging and photography in 2004, and also writes for a few other publications. Olson is the founder of #ProgressiveTuesday on Twitter and writes about US news, politics, social media, and world news.

Ole Ole Olson on social media:
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Amy Beth Arkawy, NJP’s Arts & Entertainment Editor, is the author of Killing Time: An Eliza Gordon Mystery (Hen House Press). Her story, “Dangerous Appetites,” is featured in the collection, Fiction Noir, also by Hen House Press. She is also the author of several plays including: Psychic Chicken Soup; Full Moon, Saturday Night; Listening to Insomnia; Rage Amongst Yourselves; Crazy Vivian Doesn’t Shop at Bloomie’s Anymore; The Lost Mertz; and The Postman Always Writes Twice. Her work has been produced in New York City and across the country and featured in several anthologies.

Ms. Arkawy is also a creativity coach/writing teacher, freelance journalist, and radio talk show host. She also writes the Radio Graffiti and Scribbler’s Folly blogs. Her film/TV reviews and political commentary are featured on PopNet and other outlets. Her syndicated show Smart Arts will hit the airwaves soon.

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Tammy Marchand, NJP Editor and Web Administrator, was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Marchand acquired her political interests from her politically astute father, Theodore Marchand, who was a Civil Rights Activist in the 1960′s, a Louisiana State Representative in the 1970′s, and currently a well-seasoned political pundit on U.S. and world politics. Marchand is a social entrepreneur and an independent consultant to small businesses, start-ups, and nonprofits. She is concerned with human rights, social justice, and poverty globally. She has been a supporter of and volunteer for Haiti for nearly 20 years.

Marchand’s 25 year career ranges from television production, public relations, and marketing to software development, business development, and business strategy. Marchand served as the media coordinator for political campaigns, humanitarian fundraisers, and an array of other nonprofit and for-profit media campaigns.

Our Contributors

Ron Steinman is executive editor and a columnist for online magazines, The Digital Journalist and The Digital Filmmaker. As an award-winning producer for NBC News and NBC’s Today Show, he served as bureau chief in Saigon during the Vietnam War, and later as bureau chief in Hong Kong and London. At ABC News Productions, Steinman produced documentaries for A&E, TLC, The History Channel, and Discovery. He is currently an independent documentary producer, director, and writer through his company, Douglas/Steinman Productions. He is the author of seven books, including his oral history of the Vietnam War, The Soldiers’ Story and Inside Television’s First War: A Saigon Journal which details how NBC News covered the war in Vietnam.

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Anthony Zeitouniis a Washington-based analyst who was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Zeitouni is an expert on Middle-East interfaith dialogue and conflict resolution and writes mostly on Middle Eastern affairs. Political Islam, Democratization, and Minorities in Middle East.

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Min Reyes is a journalist and student of historical materialism and dialectics. Presently, Reyes is fully committed to the global movement of human dignity against neo-liberalism. In addition to being a News Junkie Post contributor, Reyes can be found at her own blog, MinReyes.ca.

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 Kenneth Lipp is a researcher in both primate and human genetics, and writes regularly on issues of public health and international health care policy. Lipp has published research on telomere attrition and cellular aging in various peer-reviewed publications and is an avid advocate of human rights.

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Maria Odete Madeira is an interdisciplinary researcher in the private sector, in the areas of philosophy of science and systems science, with research interests in ontology, cognition, and neurocognition. For more information on Madeira, visit her website.

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Leila Germano is Cape Verdean American, from Boston. She has a background in psychology and an M.A. degree in American Studies from Columbia University in New York. She has been an independent editor and journalist since 2006. Leila credits her Hong Kong interview with Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard as a turning point in her life.

 

 

 

 

Stephen Dufrechou  is a college professor who teaches composition and literature in Memphis, TN. His nonfiction and poetry has previously been published in literary journals. Currently, he is writing a nonfiction work, about his family’s experiences in the Cuban Revolution and the subsequent U.S.-led counterrevolution. His critical focus aims at hegemonic structures and dominant ideologies in Western society.

For nearly nine years, Douglas Rivlin served as the Senior Director of Communications of the National Immigration Forum, one of the nation’s preeminent pro-immigrant advocacy organizations and one of the leading groups in the national Reform Immigration FOR America campaign. At the Forum until October 2009, Rivlin was responsible for helping reporters and the public understand the immigration issue and what is at stake in the comprehensive immigration reform debate. Prior to joining the Forum, Rivlin served as a Senior Adviser to the Director of the Voice of America and was the Washington Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career in advocacy and communications at the Children’s Defense Fund and the Advocacy Institute. Douglas earned an MA in communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Steve Elliott is a journalist based in Seattle, Washington.

Since 1960, he has worked for newspapers in Alabama and Mississippi before moving to the west coast in 1999. While living in the Los Angeles area, Elliott edited two trade magazines, Business Fleet and F&I Management and Technology, until 2004.

Steve Elliott has written extensively for the S.F. Weekly, Eyes On Obama, and OpEd News. He now edits the Village Voice Media cannabis site, Toke of the Town.

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James Lovette-Black is a post-doctoral scholar and activist with professional experience spanning over three decades in health care. Growing up gay in the deep south, he moved to Chicago in the early 70s and vibrant San Francisco has been his home since 1986. One of the original founders of ACT UP San Francisco and the Lavender Greens, his activism includes anti-apartheid work, anti-nuclear work, and environmental activism. James was in the non-violent civil disobedience blockade of the US Supreme Court after the Bowers v. Hardwick decision and has worked for pro-choice issues, as well as diligently working to dispel ageist biases and for single-payer, universal health care for all Americans. He has practiced the “religion of kindness” for nearly 30 years, as expressed through the Celtic Reconstructionist Tradition of Wicca. His worldview is optimistic and he considers himself a proud American and a planetary citizen.

An early adopter, he has had a web presence since 1994, and is an avid Apple “fan boy”, as well as a critical observer of the human-technology experience. James writes for Jimboland Jots and Bright Wellness.

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Wes Rackley spent thirty plus years working in Arkansas’ air-conditioning and energy management industries as a blue collar worker, corporate officer, and small business owner. Over the intervening years he narrowed his focus from the general economy and despising the GOP to just specifically strengthening labor, through Universal Health Care, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), and Campaign Finance Reform.

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Mike Kaulbars is an environmental activist and writer on the science behind global climate change. He trained as a research biologist (entomology, systematics, ecology) and now directs a small NGO active on environmental and social justice issues. Climate Change was one of the big reasons he left research to get involved in public education and activism. He also teaches political action. He is the main author of Greenfyre’s, a rich resource with excellent documentation.

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