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Bond: Economic Advice That Can Hurt the Poor

Znet Article, February, 02 2012 Patrick Bond
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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

Petermann: UN Climate Conference

Zmag Article, February, 01 2012 Anne Petermann
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Details of the Climate Conference from activists attending

Petermann: UN Climate Convention

Zmag Article, February, 01 2012 Anne Petermann
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Petermann and Langelle (test and photos) describe the politics of COP-17.

Berkowitz: Gates Foundation Enables ALEC to Privatize Public Education

Zmag Article, February, 01 2012 Bill Berkowitz
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The politics of charity

Reyes: After Durban: All Talked Out?

Commentary, February, 01 2012 Oscar Reyes
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The UN climate talks in Durban followed a familiar script of inaction

Bond: Steer Clear of this Climate ‘Ponzi Scheme’

Commentary, January, 26 2012 Patrick Bond
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Africa can do better than invest faith and state resources in yet another Ponzi scheme — the ‘privatisation of the air’

Cook: Room for Jews only in Israel’s ‘Villa in the Jungle’

Znet Article, January, 19 2012 Jonathan Cook
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The new infiltration law is the latest in a set of policies fortifying Israel's status as the world's first "bunker state"

Kota: South Africa: ANC Centenary a Display of Elite Power

Znet Article, January, 15 2012 Ayanda Kota
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The centenary celebrations of the African National Congress are a hugely expensive spectacle designed to drug us against our own oppression and disempowerment

Aye: Nigeria: The State Versus the People

Znet Article, January, 14 2012 Baba Aye
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Nigeria's federal government declared war on Nigerians on new year's day, with its 120% hike in the petrol price

Schechter: Celebration and Criticism as the ANC Turns 100

Znet Article, January, 11 2012 Danny Schechter
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Reflecting on the first 100 years of Africa's oldest liberation movement, celebrating its centenary today

Chomsky: In Depth, Part 3

Video, January, 10 2012 Noam Chomsky
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Inteview topics include efforts to combat terrorism, war with Iraq, and Bush administration economic and foreign policy and questions from viewers

Kumar: India Joins Scramble for African Farmlands

Znet Article, January, 10 2012 Devinder Kumar
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The origin of India’s practice of procuring farmland in Africa is traced back to the food crisis of 2008

Saul: A Poisoned Chalice

Znet Article, January, 09 2012 John s. Saul
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It must also be about transcending class, about gender equality, and about the expression of genuinely and effectively democratic voice

Davie: Decentralized People Power

Znet Article, January, 07 2012 Grace Davie
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What OWS can learn from South Africa’s United Democratic Front

Bond: Can Durban Recover from City-Scale Neoliberal Nationalism?

Commentary, January, 03 2012 Patrick Bond
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Critical academics label this thuggish ideology ‘neoliberal nationalism’: a vindictive, anti-poor deployment of state power and resources, combined with revolutionary-sounding bombast