Obama: No MLK, But Leading Man of Humanitarian Imperialism
Obama’s first term: What would MLK have said? A few weeks before the presidential election, News Junkie Post tried to secure interviews with different prominent African-American media figures regarded to be on the very left of the United States’ political spectrum. The interview project would have been titled: “Obama’s First Term: What Would MLK Have […]
Tolkien’s Hobbit Against Big Money
Never think that big money can buy everything. It can buy yes-people. It can buy governments. But it cannot buy the passion of a community that sticks together. It was a community that stuck together that saved Moseley Bog. In 1980, a campaign was initiated to prevent developers from building on a stretch of land […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jewish and Israel’s Psyche: From Abused to Abusers
Groups of people, either nations or cultures, just like individuals have a consciousness. And like individuals, a civilization collective consciousness records and reacts to historical traumas. History leaves scars on people’s collective consciousness. If some individuals tend to bury personal traumatic experiences under the false assumption that ignoring the pain will heal it, some cultures […]
