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 […]
Tribute to Aaron Swartz: Information Guerrilla Warrior
The internet lost a major figure in the person of Aaron Swartz on Friday January 11, 2013. Swartz, who was facing a possible 50 years in prison and $4 million fine for downloading the contents of JSTOR from an MIT computer, hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment. He was 26 years old. Swartz is credited […]
Haiti: Where Demolition and Exploitation Pass for Reconstruction and Development
How does one drag a people with a sense of enough into the capitalist enterprise? The answer to this question contains the history of capitalism: a process that has traditionally required the outright enslavement of groups of people, or at the least, the appropriation of their commons. The Earthquake Like any major trauma suffered jointly […]
Celebrating Life Is Worth the Fight
“I first went to see Hell and the sight was horrifying. Row after row of tables were laden with platters of sumptuous food, yet the people seated around the tables were pale and emaciated, moaning in hunger. As I came closer, I understood their predicament. Every person held a full spoon, but both arms were […]
