Imperial Elections
By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery It was her turn. Somewhere a few wise men had decided this. The only problem was a logistical one. It was the perennial dilemma of legitimizing and celebrating this choice with a staged plebiscite. In a lame-duck season, inciting wars, chasing bogeymen, aiming at fake targets, and making victory […]
In Orwellian Times a Clown Wants to Be Emperor
Interview of Gilbert Mercier with Utrice Leid March 7, 2016 Donald Trump, the frontrunner among Republican candidates in the 2016 United States presidential race, has an admirer in Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right, trenchantly racist National Front party in France. Gilbert Mercier, Editor-in-Chief of News Junkie Post and author of The Orwellian Empire draws […]
Turkey Is Searching for Her Heart
By Akin Olgun When you try to explain a specific matter about Turkey you need to rewind to the past. When you try to explain what happened in the past, you need to travel even further back, rewind back even more… and this goes on and on, endlessly! The past and the history of the […]
Litvinenko Inquiry: Death of Justice in the United Kingdom
On January 21, 2015, Sir Robert Michael Owen, a High Court judge on the verge of retirement, in his inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko made the following statement.[1] “I am sure that Mr Litvinenko did not ingest the polonium 210 either by accident or to commit suicide. I am sure, rather, that he […]
Haiti Blasted Once Again: Earthquake, Famine, Pestilence and Greed
Six years after the earthquake, death and destruction freely roam through Haiti in the form of new epidemics on people and plants. Bill and Hillary Clinton, who ushered the country’s dismantlement through the introduction of subsidized Arkansas rice in the 1990s, an occupation by United Nations troops starting in 2004, and a state of emergency that […]