On Haiti’s Earthquake Anniversary: Still Waiting for Godot
“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful!” – Samuel Beckett, in Waiting for Godot Months after Haiti’s January 12, 2010 earthquake, people were questioning the failure to deliver promised aid funds. Today they research the disappearance of these funds. The result is the same. No help will come. No help has come. Elements to […]
India’s Common Man Party (AAP) Challenges a Corrupt Two-Party System
Out of the burning coal of India’s anti-corruption movement rose the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Aam Aadmi, literally meaning Ordinary Man or Common Man, was spearheaded by Anna Hazare, himself a poorly known man from the village of Ralegan Siddhi in Maharasthtra state and a former soldier, before he became an anti-corruption activist. The political […]
Are We Puppets or Do We Have Free Will?
Are we puppets? Metaphorically, the question makes sense. Literally, we ask: do external forces, of which we are not conscious, manipulate our thoughts and actions? How crucial is the role of consciousness in this? If we are conscious of the external forces, might this be misconstrued as being a case of manipulation? Suppose we are […]
News Junkie Post: The Challenge of Truly Independent Global Journalism
By Dady Chery and Gilbert Mercier When News Junkie Post was founded in early June 2009, many people asked us why? What was the need for yet another news site, considering the plethora of such outlets on the internet? The answer was and remains rather simple: most of these outlets, even the so-called alternative news […]
Unification of Europe’s Far Right: Rise of the Fourth Reich?
It took only five years for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), or Nazi Party to rise from having only a few hundred members, to being able to force the president of Germany to proclaim Adolf Hitler — a man whom he thoroughly despised — Chancellor. Hitler’s meteoric ascent to power should serve as […]
