Photo Essay: A Thanksgiving Celebration of Homeless People
Few words can express the misery of homelessness, and the despair of homeless people. Only images can provide a glimpse of this abject life. In all societies homeless people are invisible to most. This is precisely the reason which motivated me to take photographs of homeless people for more than three decades. The life of […]
Will Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and Iraqi Shiite Militias Defeat ISIS in Syria and Iraq?
Lame duck US president is MIA on Syria and Iraq Vladimir Putin made his move on Syria a couple of weeks ago in a well-planned deliberate fashion, seizing the strange political vacuum in the White House. Washington is already in a full-blown election cycle and scrambling to keep the appearance of competency in foreign affairs. […]
Mercier and Draitser Discuss Disaster Capitalism in Post Katrina New Orleans
Eric Draitser:….We are marking the 10th-year anniversary of Katrina, and I am joined first by Gilbert Mercier, the editor in chief of News Junkie Post. He had some interesting experiences around Katrina and New Orleans. When I came around your piece on Katrina, it is really powerful and it took me back to 10 years […]
Gilbert Mercier Discusses the US Election Charade with Andrew Korybko on Sputnik
Andrew Korybko: If Joe Biden decides to throw his hat into the ring, how could this affect the dynamic of the elections? Gilbert Mercier: Ultimately, Joe Biden, if he runs, will serve an entertainment purpose: sort of what is going on with Donald Trump in the GOP primary. Biden might try to cater to the […]
US Empire: American Exceptionalism Is No Shining City On a Hill
The concept of American exceptionalism is as old as the United States, and it implies that the country has a qualitative difference from other nations. This notion of being special gives Americans the sense that playing a lead role in world affair is part of their natural historic calling. However there is nothing historically exceptional […]
