Hypocrisy of Gun Control in a Land Where War and Violence Are Alluring
By Dady Chery and Gilbert Mercier Solving problems with violence is as American as apple pie The National Rifle Association (NRA) has become public enemy number one amongst left-leaning Americans since the most recent incident of random shooting. Is blaming the NRA a convenient way for Americans to avoid some necessary soul searching: a refusal […]
How Sweden Collaborated With CIA on Renditions and Framing of Assange
By Rafik Saley, Okoth Osewe, and John Goss By his own admission, Sweden’s Ambassador to Australia Mr. Sven-Olof Petersson had advance knowledge of the CIA rendition flight that took place on December 18, 2001 from Stockholm to Egypt. This flight ended in Egyptian nationals Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery being illegally rendered and tortured. Mr. Petersson’s […]
Gilbert Mercier on RT: US Policy on Syria Is Incoherent
On the occasion of the kidnapping of Ukrainian journalist Anhar Kochneva, News Junkie Post Editor in Chief Gilbert Mercier was asked to share his thoughts with Russia Today International about Syria’s Civil War. What Mercier had to say about the United States’ bungling in Syria does not bode well for the region in general or […]
Global Capitalism: A Runaway Train Hurtling Us into the Abyss
The Mayan calendar should give us a sense of urgency. While the world will not end on December 21, 2012, the clock is ticking fast for our species’ current lifestyle on this planet due to our destructive behaviors and short-sighted mode of development. We are too many. We consume too much. We gobble energy, food […]
Climate Change: Dying by Two Degrees
The End Age for humanity will not be a date known to man, but a point of no return from climate change, about which we shall be as oblivious as if we had sleepwalked out of an airplane without a parachute. Scientists will describe their shock at the free fall, calculate the time of impact […]
