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- Thursday, Feb 02, 2012
ZNet Article The poverty innate to the IMF’s best model, Tunisia, cannot be solved by paper rights aiming to integrate poor people into a rotting ‘formal’ economy -
- Thursday, Jan 26, 2012
Commentary Africa can do better than invest faith and state resources in yet another Ponzi scheme — the ‘privatisation of the air’ -
- Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012
Commentary Critical academics label this thuggish ideology ‘neoliberal nationalism’: a vindictive, anti-poor deployment of state power and resources, combined with revolutionary-sounding bombast -
- Thursday, Dec 22, 2011
Commentary Of course it is tempting to ignore the stench of failure and declare Durban “an outstanding success,” -
- Wednesday, Dec 07, 2011
Commentary Most likely, our city will go down in infamy as the site that the temperature was dialed up on Africa -
- Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011
Commentary One of the world’s most extreme cases of climate injustice happens to be the site for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties 17 (COP17) climate summit -
- Wednesday, Nov 23, 2011
ZNet Article In many cases the courageous push by the 99% against these 1% personalities only dislodged the venal creatures, not the system, so replacements crawled right back in -
- Thursday, Oct 13, 2011
Commentary In these days of dire economic and environmental crisis, with political elites under attack from Athens to Washington, the establishment is desperate for legitimacy -
- Friday, Sep 16, 2011
Commentary It is a ripe time for such in-your-face challenges to orthodoxy here, given the post-apartheid elites’ hostility to exchange controls -
- Tuesday, Aug 30, 2011
Commentary It makes no sense to avoid the harsh reality of fast-rising emissions -
- Friday, Aug 05, 2011
ZNet Article To solve the climate crisis requires we must accept that the vast majority of fossil fuels must now be left underground -
- Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011
Commentary With extreme weather events worsening in recent months, who can doubt the imperative to get a fair, ambitious and binding deal? -
- Tuesday, Jul 05, 2011
Commentary Manqele was a salt-of-the-earth activist, a great woman active in her residents’ committee -
- Wednesday, Jun 22, 2011
Commentary Durban will primarily be a conference of profiteers -
- Monday, May 30, 2011
Commentary A renewed wave of development babble began flowing soon after the launch of the World Bank’s ten-year Strategy document -
- Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Commentary Obama has missed the point of the Arab Spring. It’s not just about the street vendor, it is about social justice -
- Friday, May 13, 2011
Commentary Given how disastrous globalization has been for Africa, a “far left movement” is long overdue -
- Thursday, Apr 28, 2011
Commentary Bangladesh’s once-legendary banking environment is now fatally polluted. -
- Monday, Apr 25, 2011
Commentary South Africa’s most vocal neoliberal politician, Trevor Manuel, is apparently being seriously considered as co-chair of the Green Climate Fund. On April 28-29 in Mexico City, Manuel and other elites meet to design the world’s biggest-ever replenis... -
- Monday, Apr 18, 2011
Commentary Hosting the Durban COP17 – let’s rename it the ‘Conference of Polluters’ – starting in late November puts quite a burden on the African National Congress government in Pretoria: to pretend to be pro-green. -
- Saturday, Mar 19, 2011
Commentary If Muammar Gaddafi’s wicked son Saif is to be believed, we will soon be witnessing “rivers of blood” in Benghazi... -
- Monday, Feb 28, 2011
Commentary The late poet-activist Dennis Brutus occasionally used ‘Seattle’, the name of a city in the northwestern United States, as a verb. We should ‘seattle Copenhagen’, he said in late 2009, to prevent the North from doing a climate deal in their intere... -
- Saturday, Feb 19, 2011
Commentary As the Kyoto Protocol’s Conference of the Parties draws closer, we will encounter even more frequent public relations blasts than witnessed in the same International Convention Centre district a decade ago. -
- Sunday, Jan 30, 2011
Commentary South Africa’s crust was drill-pocked with abandon since Kimberley diamonds were found in 1867 and then Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) gold was unearthed in 1886. -
- Tuesday, Dec 14, 2010
Commentary The December 11 closure of the global climate summit in Cancun has been portrayed a "step forward." -
- Tuesday, Nov 23, 2010
ZNet Article The stench of rotting blubber would hang for days over The Bluff in South Durban, thanks to Norwegian immigrants whose harpooning skills helped stock the town with cooking fat, margarine and soap, starting about a century ago. -
- Sunday, Nov 21, 2010
Commentary The power and reach of financial institutions, not to mention the resulting superprofits, are the source of widespread, often extreme frustration. -
- Sunday, Nov 14, 2010
Commentary If leaders of a little African country stand up to imperialist aggression, that would strike any fair observer as extremely compelling... -
- Wednesday, Oct 13, 2010
Commentary On a full-day drive through the Jordan Valley late last month, we skirted the earth’s oldest city and the lowest inhabited point, 400 meters below sea level. For 10,000 years, people have lived along the river separating the present-day West Bank ... -
- Wednesday, Sep 29, 2010
Commentary Since coming to power after a palace coup against Thabo Mbeki exactly two years ago, the new government’s performance has been miserable. For example, roughly 1.5 million jobs have been lost, in spite of a major economic burst before and during th... - All Most Recent Content
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- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Book "This is by far one of the best critical contributions from the left in the continuing controversial role which the World Bank and IMF play in developing countries' economies and societies. Bond comes from a dying tradition of the activist/scholar... -
- Thursday, Jun 15, 2006
Book Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are becoming poorer,this book contextualises Africa‘s wealth outflow within a stagnant but volatile world economy. - All Recent Books
Featured Content-
- Thursday, Feb 02, 2012
ZNet Article The poverty innate to the IMF’s best model, Tunisia, cannot be solved by paper rights aiming to integrate poor people into a rotting ‘formal’ economy -
- Wednesday, Nov 23, 2011
ZNet Article In many cases the courageous push by the 99% against these 1% personalities only dislodged the venal creatures, not the system, so replacements crawled right back in -
- Friday, Aug 05, 2011
ZNet Article To solve the climate crisis requires we must accept that the vast majority of fossil fuels must now be left underground -
- Tuesday, Nov 23, 2010
ZNet Article The stench of rotting blubber would hang for days over The Bluff in South Durban, thanks to Norwegian immigrants whose harpooning skills helped stock the town with cooking fat, margarine and soap, starting about a century ago. -
- Saturday, Dec 26, 2009
ZNet Article World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa's most celebrated poets, Dennis Brutus, died early on December 26 in Cape Town, in his sleep, aged 85. -
- Friday, Jul 03, 2009
ZNet Article With high-volume class strife heard in the rumbling of wage demands and the friction of township "service delivery protests", rhetorical and real conflicts are bursting open in every nook and cranny of South Africa. -
- Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008
ZNet Article The global economy’s vast financial sector expansion – in the context of productive sector stagnation tendencies – has increased the leading powerbrokers’ capacity to devalue large parts of the Third World (including major emerging market sites), ... - All Featured Content
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