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 […]
Gilbert Mercier on Progressive Radio Network: Mali May Become Africa’s Afghanistan
As the United States prepared to assist France in its war in Mali, News Junkie Post Editor in Chief Gilbert Mercier spoke to Utrice Leid of PRN’s Leid Stories on the geopolitics of this military adventure. Despite the great breadth of the topic, Mercier explained clearly and succintly the history of the region, its unstable […]
