Is Poverty The Future Of America’s Middle Class?
America’s middle class has been under attack for about 30 years. One of the main goal of Reagan, the Republicans and the pro-corporate Democrats was to dismantle the few critical social programs and safety nets put together by FDR and later Lyndon Johnson. Bush Sr. kept pushing for the same social Darwinist policies of deconstruction […]
France: Thousands Demonstrate Against Roma Expulsions
Today, more than 140 demonstrations took place in France to protest the government’s crackdown on immigrants and the recent expulsions, conducted by the Sarkozy administration, of hundreds of Roma. Demonstrators held banners, waved French flags and chanted slogans denouncing Sarkozy’s repressive “security” policies. The slogans included “Let’s stop the repression”, “No to Sarkozy inhumane policies” […]
Is Hurricane Earl Dumping BP Oil Spill Tar Balls On The Beaches Of Nantucket?
In the last few days a few eye witnesses spotted several tar balls, of different sizes, on and off the beaches of Nantucket. The tar balls were of various sizes, some were a couple feet in diameter. According to two eye witnesses, who contacted The News Junkie Post, some of them were floating in the […]
Great Recession: Are War Spending And Wealth Concentration To Blame?
A superficial analysis of the recession and the global financial crash, with their long lasting effects on the world economy, put the blame on the burst of the US real estate market bubble. However, some much bigger forces and overall budget trends have being at play for 30 years within the US economy. In the […]
Iraq War Redux: Goodbye “Iraqi Freedom”, Hello “New Dawn”
On August 31, 2010, President Obama declared, in his oval office address to the nation, that the United States combat operations in Iraq were officially over. This is obviously an effort by the President to convince Americans, right before the November elections, that he has fulfilled one of his key 2008 campaign promises: To end […]
