>From NY Times, April 6, 2000 "Africa's Diamond Wars"
Full article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/040600africa-diamonds.html
Exploiting a Continent
The miseries of modern Africa are, in many ways, a legacy of its history.
In the case of both Angola and Congo, colonialism obl
thing to compansate it.
o!!..
Mine
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>From NY Times, Apri
>I really wonder why New York Times and bourgeois sources like
>this suddenly rediscover Africa's heritage of colonalism!! Overall, it
>does not seem to me more than an "orientalist" sympaty of reconstructing
>the "other": we killed the folks, and let's do something to compansate it.
>
>o!!..
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>I really wonder why New York Times and bourgeois sources like
I wouldn't say it's the best paper but certainly the best in the US. Its
editorial stance is another matter altogether.
Anthony P. D'Costa
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At 06:52 PM 4/6/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I wouldn't say it's [the New York TIMES] the best paper but certainly the
>best in the US. Its editorial stance is another matter altogether.
today's TIMES has a front-page story about how Israel's harsh treatment of
Arabs is mellowing. They never mentione