“Greeting the New Millennium – nearly a decade late”
This is a two-part article series in the category “New Millennium and politics”, both dated January 29, 2009.
These blog posts can be accessed through the Article Excerpts for this category.
The following are some key themes in the articles in this category:
– War versus Peace in the transition to New Millennium
- Events mentioned: Iraq invasion of Kuwait and Gulf War, Clinton-Yeltsin Vancouver summit, UN peacekeeping in Somalia, Rwanda massacre, 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda, Iraq/Afghanistan wars, uranium mining in Niger and search for weapon of mass destruction, “Sunni extremism” and international terrorism
- Names mentioned: George Bush, Sr., Saddam Hussein, April Catherine Glaspie, Brian Mulroney, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Jr., Joseph C. Wilson, Simon Sole
– Progress of education toward New Millennium, as an alternative and in the backdrop of War versus Peace
- Events mentioned: The National Education Summit, Goals 2000, Y2K
- Names mentioned: George Bush, Sr., William Brock, David Robinson, Bill Clinton, Gary Locke, George Pataki, Louis Gerstner
– Anti-war/Peace movements in the transition to New Millennium
- Names mentioned: William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Chalmers Johnson
– Other politics coming to the fore in New Millennium
- Events mentioned: Chicago corruption, racial-equality politics in America, British monarchy succession, international hostage-taking in Somalia, Pakistan and Niger
- Names mentioned: Conrad Black, Rod Blagojevich, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Ndesandjo, Barack Obama, Kyra Kristensen-Irvine, Prince Charles, Amanda Lindhout, Beverly Giesbrecht, Robert Fowler, Louis Guay
– War versus Peace in a preceding historical period
- Events mentioned: Cuban Revolution, Vietnam War
- Names mentioned: Dwight Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Christian Herter, Dean Acheson, Richard Nixon, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy
– Progress of education in the preceding historical period, as an alternative and in the backdrop of War versus Peace:
- Events mentioned: establishing Hue University in (South) Vietnam
- Names mentioned: Milton Eisenhower, Avery Dulles, Shiing-shen Chern
– Anti-war/Peace movements in the preceding historical period
- Events mentioned: anti-Vietnam-war protests, draft dodging, 1968 Democratic National Convention
- Names mentioned: John Forbes Nash, Jerry Rubin, Chicago Eight
– War versus Peace, and education in earlier history
- Events mentioned: early Chinese Buddhism, British slavery abolition, Opium Wars, foreign-trade opening in China, Christianity in China, Taiping Rebellion, introduction of modern medicine to China, women’s education in China
- Names mentioned: Buddha Shakyamuni, Qiyun Pagoda, East India Company, Robert Morrison, Duke of Clarence, John Welch Dulles, Rudolf Lechler, William Gauld, Lida Scott Ashmore
– Folklores related to social violence
- St. Stephen’s Day
- Halloween
- The Lord of the Rings
- Nightmare on Elm Street
(Posted on November 25, 2009)
Tagged New Millennium
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