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Lost Worlds: Is Another World Possible? by Naomi Klein AMY GOODMAN: The State Department is coming under criticism this week for refusing to allow a prominent South African social scientist to enter the country. Adam Habib was scheduled to speak at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York this past weekend, but the government refused to give him a visa. Ironically, the theme of this year's sociology conference was "Is Another World Possible?" At the conference, the ASA planned a series of sessions to assess the potential for progressive social change both in the US and in the world and to invite a serious dis

Many parents are known to claim that what they do, whether it be subjugation by threats, assault, insult, manipulation, imprisonment, or theft, is to teach their children 'right from wrong.'  This is of course superfluous, because children are not demons, they are sensitive emotional beings; but what is most prominent is the fact that children already do intuitively know what is right as opposed to what is wrong: Right:   openness, emotional support, listening, sympathy, non-sexual affectionate touching, stability, safety, warmth, attention, honesty. Wrong:   restricted expression, ignorance, hitting, molestation, instability, fear, cold,

""Many people claim to be appalled by the acts of perversion committed by American soldiers on Iraqi prisoners. I have never heard of any such reaction in response to the occasional attempts to expose similar practices in British and American schools. The reason is simple. There, these practices come under the heading of "education." The world appears to be amazed that such brutality should rear its head among the American forces. After all, America presents itself to the international public as the guardian of world peace. There is an explanation for all this, but hardly anyone wants to hear it. It is definitely a good thing that light has