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07/19/2005:
"Africa Calls for End to Injustice at U.N."
Black intellectuals unite to develop Afrocentric perspectivesWhen white European historians affiliated to the British colonial system kept journals on slaves in the Caribbean, this version of black history was often reproduced in newspaper columns and so the image of Afro-Caribbeans as lazy, aggressive and deceitful was born. That this racist and Eurocentric diatribe ended up in history books and formed the basis of damaging stereotypes that still exist today is a measure of the importance of black academics writing from an Afrocentric viewpoint.
Africa Calls for End to Injustice at U.N.
Africa presented its proposal for expanding the U.N. Security Council, saying it's time to give a voice to billions of people in the developing world and end the historic injustice that left the continent without a permanent seat on the U.N.'s most powerful body.
Rebels approach Ethiopian govt
A separatist group on Tuesday offered to open peace talks with the government in an effort to end a low-level conflict in the lawless Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia.
Two Sides of the Same Coin
The stakes are too high to pretend that the violence of one group is acceptable, while that of the other group is not. It's a matter of logic: If al-Qaeda, in killing the innocent through terrorism in England, is based on an evil ideology, then Tony Blair's pro-war administration, in killing the innocent through war in Iraq, is likewise based on an evil ideology. These twin ideologies are sides of the same coin.
Farmers Protest Over Sugar Reforms
More than 5,000 sugar farmers demonstrated in Brussels Monday as EU agriculture ministers gathered to debate the European Commission's proposed overhaul of the bloc's controversial sugar regime.
London plot thickens, as does propaganda
As was the case following 9/11 and all post-9/11 "terror" events, an official new propaganda legend is being constructed to justify whatever Anglo-American-Israeli aggression that is sure to follow.
Oxford university settle race case
ONE OF Britain's top universities has effectively admitted it is suffering from institutional racism.
Ministers bury head in sand over ID cards
PRESSURE IS building on ministers over the impact of the governments identity card proposals on Britain’s Black communities.
America's ever-widening class divide
Linux in Government: Outside the US, People Get It
Angola on full alert after Marburg outbreak
Mariam Makeiba sings for freedom, tolerance in Tunisia
Media keeps Americans in the dark about massive foreign policy failure
America's Truth Deficit
Jewish settler seeks to become Palestinian
Sinister Paradise
Does the road to the future end at Dubai?
IRAQ: Focus on illegal organ trade
Hidden Agenda: The Drug That Doesn't Work For a Disease That Doesn't Exist, American Nation Destroyed
Bolivians Struggle for Democracy