Climate Crisis, Pandemics and Bad Governance: Humanity’s Existential Threats
On the menu: tornado with COVID-19 on the side Since I started News Junkie Post, eleven years ago, I have, as a rule, avoided the first person narrative. In my mind, there is a simple reason for an aversion for the “me, myself, and I” type of storytelling so widespread in our culture. The first […]
Photographs: Americana Lost and Found
Editor’s Note: All photographs by Gilbert Mercier. To view a bigger size of the photographs, please click on the images.
Katrina’s Anniversary: A Photographic Tribute To The Victims
Words can be powerless. They couldn’t describe the destruction, the mad power of the storm. Words were also barely adequate to portray the suffering, despair and misery imposed on the people of New-Orleans. Knowing that 1,600 people were killed during and in the aftermath of Katrina, and that 500,000 residents of the Crescent City were […]