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The Substance of Truth

Part of the Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education Book Series (volume 71)

Editors: Olorunda, Tolu

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6091-534-5

Publisher: SensePublishers - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2011

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“This Is Working Very Well For Them”

Olorunda, Tolu

Pages: 147 –153

[Various storms come, unveiling different degrees of disaster and demolition. Most storms leave behind legacies of chaos and catastrophe. But few storms reveal rare prestige and potency, yielding such unprecedented effects that years, decades, perhaps even centuries, after, tales of their wonder...
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Social Networking

Olorunda, Tolu

Pages: 155 –162

[There should be something immeasurably insidious about a government that spies on its citizens. And if one universal truth counts, it is that no country wields a monopoly on intrusive conducts. Whenever a ruling class, from whatever region, espousing whatever central political philosophy, feels...
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Prophets Of Baal

Olorunda, Tolu

Pages: 163 –169

[Recent revelation that, right before launching the Iraq massacre, George W. Bush sought to seduce former France President Jacques Chirac into war against the Iraqi people by invoking biblical text, particularly the demonic tales of Gog and Magog, should yield unassailable proof that religious...
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Hope and (Some) Change

Olorunda, Tolu

Pages: 171 –180

[On January 20, 2009, President Barack Obama received the mantle worn for eight years by George W. Bush, and thereupon swore a new course in domestic and foreign policies, calling in the Middle East for “a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,” and assuring an economic...
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Age of Poverty

Olorunda, Tolu

Pages: 183 –189

[The new age we have stepped into resembles nothing of the past. Never before have all elements of public good and communal interest passed off to commercialism, privatization, and narcissism: to a romanticized, twisted Social Darwinism that convinces people competitive consumption reaches the...
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The Substance Of Truth

Olorunda, Tolu

Pages: 191 –201

[At risk of appearing alarmist, it’s easy to ignore all the warning signs hanging around us that suggest the clock is ticking fast—real fast!—and that time left for due action is short. But if life for the next generation should contain some semblance of sanity—where life itself means more than...

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