In 1953 Donaldo Macedo, a scholar and follower of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freine, coined the phrase "literacy for stupidifaction" to describe the inability of many Americans to read the word and the world critically. This incapacity makes people susceptible to political manipulation through big lies. No amount of evidence is likely to shift their reading of the world." Sipho Seepe from the South African Mail & Guardian

Despite this, GlobalSpin will persist...

Correction: The total number for the dead in Colombia's civil war over the past decade was given as 250,000 in the In answer to Jesse Miller piece. The corrected figure is 40,000, which is a conservative figure given that one year alone, 1997 saw 23,000 political deaths and currently they are estimated at between 5 and 10 politically motivated killings a day.

To see the answer to Jesse Miller's piece, please go to the archive and click on Super Power Sunday.