Free Speech vs Religious Fundamentalism: A Discussion of Charlie Hebdo
News Junkie Post Editor-in-Chief Gilbert Mercier spoke about Charlie Hebdo with Bill Bowring, Barrister and Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, in a Sputnik International show Agree or Disagree interview hosted by Marina Dzhashi. Impact of the tragedy Gilbert Mercier: To me, it’s very personal because Charlie Hebdo was really a French institution, […]
Midnight of Haiti’s Parliament on the Earthquake’s Anniversary
Just as the earthquake had rattled the ground under the feet of Haitians, the dissolution of the Haitian Parliament at midnight, 00:00 on January 12, 2015, exactly five years later, has shaken to the core Haiti’s republican institutions. Right at the day’s start, the terms expired for all 99 members of the House of Representatives […]
Jokowi’s Indonesia: Prime Example of Global Neoliberalism’s Failure
In September 2014, Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, the country with the biggest Muslim population worldwide, the tenth largest economy on the planet, and the largest archipelago in the world elected its leader for the upcoming five years. It was a tight race between two contenders: Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, and Prabowo […]
Charlie Hebdo: Interview of Gilbert Mercier on PRN Leid Stories
“In the world of political satire, the killing of the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo would be the equivalent, in the 18th century, of having Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, and Montesquieu killed in the same room at the same time.” – Gilbert Mercier Twelve people, most of them journalists and cartoonists, were assassinated during an editorial meeting […]
Dynamics of Political and Social Change
People within a society, state, or international milieu, possess the collective capacity to organize. Assuming a human proclivity for association and organization helps to explain the inception of a social seedbed, which gives rise to a cultivable political process. This notion is very much in line with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s treatment of sovereignty within a state, […]
