Boston Marathon Bombing: More Justification for Repression and Endless Global War on Terror
By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery We might never learn the motive behind the Boston Marathon bomb attack on Monday, April 15, 2013, which is reported to have killed three people and injured more than 170. It could be as simple as an unhinged individual going postal on tax day or a sinister message to […]
Humanitarian Imperialism: Charity for Power
The same day Pope Benedict XVI resigned from his post, New York’s wealthy Mayor Michael Bloomberg inaugurated a collaboration between Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Pope and Bloomberg’s announcements on February 28, 2013 were probably unrelated; nevertheless they underlined a victory of corporate over religious charity. As the Catholic church’s […]
Hooked on Life: An Ecological Folk Tale from Haiti
About the story. “Tezen Nan Dlo” is one of Haiti’s most popular folk tales. The Créole “te” indicates the past tense, and “zen” means “hook.” It is about hooking and being hooked. The enticements of love, family, and the natural world. It is also a coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in Haiti, where a […]
Submit Your Short Story to a News Junkie Post Competition
Short Story Competition Dear Readers: As part of an update to News Junkie Post, we will soon replace our Entertainment section with a Literature section that will present the original works of talented authors. We invite writers to submit short stories to us that are approximately 1,500 to 3,000 words long. Please submit your story […]
Global GDP Growth: An IMF and World Bank Racket
In the three years since Haiti’s earthquake, the unemployment rate has climbed from 80 percent to more than 85 percent. Simultaneously, the gross domestic product (GDP) has gone from a five-percent decline in 2010 to a two-percent growth in 2012, according to a World Bank report released on January 15 and titled “Global Economic Prospects […]
