Hyper-Consumption Society: In The Animal Farm
Desiring, dionysiac, obsessive, the hyperconsumption society is kept in delirium of precarious sustainability by a desperate market economy, as its civilizational ex libris imperative: it is necessary to produce in excess, it is necessary to consume in excess, making the excess itself, by alienation of responsibility, the causal referent invested of the valorative power of […]
Will America’s Moral Bankruptcy Cause its First Real Revolution?
Ordinary Americans will pickup the tab by getting critical social programs standing between them and dire poverty drastically cut. The US social safety net is already one of the worst in the industrial world and what could be left of it will put the United States on par with developing countries and banana republics. If […]
Our Broken World: The Toxic Nexus of Power and Money
On February 21, 2012, News Junkie Post’s Editor in Chief Gilbert Mercier suffered an abdominal aortic aneurysm: a myocardial infarction… a massive heart attack. Gilbert was given only a 10% chance of surviving the surgery that required he be put in a comatose state to repair the damage and perform a bypass. Fortunately, due to […]
Journalists: An Endangered Species
Marie Colvin, a prominent American war correspondent working for a British newspaper, and a French photojournalist, Remi Ochlik, were killed Wednesday February 23, 2012 in the besieged city Homs in Syria. By now the latest deaths of war correspondents covering the crisis in Syria is old news. It does not take much to know that […]
SOPA: A Pox on Both Houses
By Ron Steinman The earlier fuss over SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” is now mostly quiet. Each side in this epic battle of who controls the Internet is rethinking its strategy. Lobbyists are garnering big fees as they freely give advice on what they believe will be a winning scheme. The story is off […]
