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Bond: South Africa’s Coming Fight Over Capital Flight
Commentary, September, 16 2011
Patrick Bond
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It is a ripe time for such in-your-face challenges to orthodoxy here, given the post-apartheid elites’ hostility to exchange controls
Bond: Dirty Durban’s Manual for Climate Greenwashing
Commentary, August, 30 2011
Patrick Bond
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It makes no sense to avoid the harsh reality of fast-rising emissions
Bond: Leaving Oil in the Soil, from Durban’s Coast to Ecuador’s Amazon
Znet Article, August, 05 2011
Patrick Bond
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To solve the climate crisis requires we must accept that the vast majority of fossil fuels must now be left underground
Bond: Fighting the Minerals-Petroleum-Coal Complex’s Wealth and Woes in Durban
Commentary, July, 20 2011
Patrick Bond
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With extreme weather events worsening in recent months, who can doubt the imperative to get a fair, ambitious and binding deal?
Bond: Two South African Enemies Die, Alongside Our Right to Water
Commentary, July, 05 2011
Patrick Bond
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Manqele was a salt-of-the-earth activist, a great woman active in her residents’ committee
Bond: From Bonn to Durban, Climate Meetings are Conferences of Polluters
Commentary, June, 22 2011
Patrick Bond
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Durban will primarily be a conference of profiteers
Bond: World Bank’s Africa Strategy Remains in Rutted Comfort Zone
Commentary, May, 30 2011
Patrick Bond
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A renewed wave of development babble began flowing soon after the launch of the World Bank’s ten-year Strategy document
Bond: Can Democracy Activists Undo US and IMF Damage?
Commentary, May, 24 2011
Patrick Bond
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Obama has missed the point of the Arab Spring. It’s not just about the street vendor, it is about social justice
Bond: Are “African lions” Really Roaring? Latest Fibs from World Financiers
Commentary, May, 13 2011
Patrick Bond
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Given how disastrous globalization has been for Africa, a “far left movement” is long overdue
Bond: A Run on Grameen Bank’s Integrity
Commentary, April, 28 2011
Patrick Bond
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Bangladesh’s once-legendary banking environment is now fatally polluted.
Bond: Climate Finance Leadership Risks Global Bankruptcy
Commentary, April, 25 2011
Patrick Bond
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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...
Bond: As Climate Summit Approaches, SA Industrial Policy Hits Green Wall
Commentary, April, 18 2011
Patrick Bond
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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.
Bond: When Civil-Societyism Fronts For Barbarism
Commentary, March, 19 2011
Patrick Bond
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If Muammar Gaddafi’s wicked son Saif is to be believed, we will soon be witnessing “rivers of blood” in Benghazi...
Bond: ‘Mubaraking’ Muammar, Maliki, Mugabe and more
Commentary, February, 28 2011
Patrick Bond
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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...
Bond: The South African Government’s ‘Talk Left Walk Right’ Climate Policy
Commentary, February, 19 2011
Patrick Bond
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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.
Bond: Dethroning King Coal in 2011, from West Virginia (January) to Durban (December)
Commentary, January, 30 2011
Patrick Bond
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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.
Bond: ‘Climate Capitalism’ Won At Cancun - Everyone Else Loses
Commentary, December, 14 2010
Patrick Bond
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The December 11 closure of the global climate summit in Cancun has been portrayed a "step forward."
Bond: A Climate Conference, Old And New Oil Curses, And Norwegian ‘Good Samaritans’
Znet Article, November, 23 2010
Patrick Bond
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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.
Bond: A century since Hilferding’s Finanz Kapital – again, apparently, a banker’s world?
Commentary, November, 21 2010
Patrick Bond
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The power and reach of financial institutions, not to mention the resulting superprofits, are the source of widespread, often extreme frustration.
Bond: Will Zimbabwe Again Regress?
Commentary, November, 14 2010
Patrick Bond
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If leaders of a little African country stand up to imperialist aggression, that would strike any fair observer as extremely compelling...
