How Tyranny Came to Zimbabwe

James Kirchick: How Tyranny Came to Zimbabwe

Ref: The Weekly Standard, 06/18/2007, Volume 012, Issue 38

“Mugabe became prime minister and was toasted by the international community and media as a new sort of African leader. “I find that I am fascinated by his intelligence, by his dedication. The only thing that frustrates me about Robert Mugabe is that he is so damned incorruptible,” Andrew Young, Jimmy Carter’s ambassador to the United Nations, had gushed to the Times of London in 1978. The rest, as they say, is history.”

How Obama blew it

Michael Meyers: Obama blew it

Ref: Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2008

“We can’t be united as a nation if we continue to think racially and give credence to racial experiences and differences based on ethnicity, past victim status and stereotypical categories.”

Nationalism to Fascism

Ray Ibrahim: From Nationalism to Fascism to Terror

Ref:  VDH Online: September 4, 2005

“And so, in certain respects, Islamic fundamentalism is an old phenomenon in a different form. Just as for Germany, wars and wounded egos have produced a vicious backlash in many parts of the Arab world.  But these commonalities and shared histories are not only instructive regarding the causes of Nazism and Islamic fundamentalism; perhaps they can also shed some light on how to handle the latter.”

Genetic diversity revisited

US NIH: Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies

Ref: Pub Med Central Feb 2005

“On the other hand, several studies have shown that individuals tend to cluster genetically with others of the same ancestral geographic origins (Mountain and Cavalli-Sforza 1997; Stephens et al. 2001; Bamshad et al. 2003). Prior studies have generally been performed on a relatively small number of individuals and/or markers. A recent study (Rosenberg et al. 2002) examined 377 autosomal microsatellite markers in 1,056 individuals from a global sample of 52 populations and found significant evidence of genetic clustering, largely along geographic (continental) lines.”