The first use of Global South in a contemporary political sense was in 1969 by Carl Oglesby,
writing in Catholic journal Commonweal in a special issue on the Vietnam War. Oglesby argued
that centuries of northern "dominance over the global south has converged to produce an
intolerable social order.
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True south is one end of the axis about which the Earth rotates, called the South Pole. The
South Pole is located in Antarctica. Magnetic south is the direction towards the south magnetic
pole, some distance away from the south geographic pole
Along with examining the history of the region, the discussion also notes how the concepts of
the historical units involved in that history have changed in the presentations of the history
of the South.