Induced abortion is an age-old practice that still continues. Estimates of induced abortions in the developing world alone account for 30 million incidences every year. The figure stands at 3.4 million in Africa, 11.9 million in East Asia, anything between 5.2 million and 12.5 million in South and South-East Asia; and between 4.4 million and 6.2 million in Latin America. In other words, of all births averted by either contraception or abortion, up to one-third are done by induced abortions alone in Africa, says Subir Ghosh

Where can we turn to for an analysis of the "new" mass media arriving on the Net? Is the "propaganda model" studied by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media still durable eleven years after publication? Here is a summary of that model.They show that the media "serve to mobilise support for the special interests that dominate the state and private activity, and that their choices, emphases, and omissions can often be understood best, and sometimes with striking clarity and insight, by analysing them in such terms, says PLC

When the first American Marines marched into Vietnam in March 1965, historical consensus holds, they were there because there was no alternative. President Johnson's hand had been forced by the right-wing hawks and the Communists. The general public wholeheartedly supported defending South Vietnam, as did America's allies in Europe. That's not really the case, argues Fredrik Logevall, in his provocative thesis--that John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and McGeorge Bundy chose to escalate American involvement when the war could have been avoided-- which is well supported by careful archival research and newly declassified documents, writes Subir Ghosh

When the first American Marines marched into Vietnam in March 1965, historical consensus holds, they were there because there was no alternative. President Johnson's hand had been forced by the right-wing hawks and the Communists. The general public wholeheartedly supported defending South Vietnam, as did America's allies in Europe. That's not really the case, argues Fredrik Logevall, in his provocative thesis--that John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and McGeorge Bundy chose to escalate American involvement when the war could have been avoided-- which is well supported by careful archival research and newly declassified documents, writes Subir Ghosh

When the first American Marines marched into Vietnam in March 1965, historical consensus holds, they were there because there was no alternative. President Johnson's hand had been forced by the right-wing hawks and the Communists. The general public wholeheartedly supported defending South Vietnam, as did America's allies in Europe. That's not really the case, argues Fredrik Logevall, in his provocative thesis--that John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and McGeorge Bundy chose to escalate American involvement when the war could have been avoided-- which is well supported by careful archival research and newly declassified documents, writes Subir Ghosh