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Bond: Palestine Liberation Recalls Anti-Apartheid Tactics, Responsibilities And Controversies
Commentary, October, 13 2010
Patrick Bond
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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 ...
Bond: South African Development Goals Will Not Be Met
Commentary, September, 29 2010
Patrick Bond
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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...
Bond: South African Public Sector Strike Highlights Society’s Contradictions
Commentary, August, 23 2010
Patrick Bond
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The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African government vow to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a confident government leadership ...
Bond: Is Africa Still Being Looted? A Debate Dodging World Bank Schizophrenia
Commentary, August, 16 2010
Patrick Bond
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The continent’s own elites, together with the West and now China are still making Africans progressively poorer, thanks to the extraction of raw materials. Reinvestment is negligible and the prices, royalties and taxes paid are inadequate to compe...
Bond: South Africa loses its ‘War on Poverty’
Commentary, August, 07 2010
Patrick Bond
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Shortly before Pretoria’s presidential power change from Thabo Mbeki to Jacob Zuma two years ago, the South African state announced its War on Poverty (WoP). What news from the front, in the immediate wake of World Cup host duties that showed obse...
Bond: Fifa Forbids Free Speech At World Cup Fan Fest
Commentary, July, 09 2010
Patrick Bond
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Acting against our alleged ‘ambush marketing’ and ‘incitement’ (sic), the South African Police Service, newly augmented with 40,000 additional cadre for the World Cup, detained several of us here in Durban last weekend.
Bond: World Cup, ‘resource curse’ and xenophobia threats
Commentary, June, 29 2010
Patrick Bond
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Soccer-loving cynics have long predicted problems now growing worse here in South Africa because of World Cup hosting duties...
Bond: Six Red Cards For Fifa
Commentary, June, 12 2010
Patrick Bond
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The World Cup begins this weekend here in South Africa, with the home team playing Mexico on Friday before 95,000 fans at Johannesburg’s Soccer City.
Bond: South Africa’s World Cup fest not worth the coming hangover
Commentary, May, 15 2010
Patrick Bond
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On June 11, South Africans start partying like no time since liberation in April 1994, and of course it is a huge honor for our young democracy to host the most important sporting spectacle short of the Olympics. All the ordinary people who have w...
Bond: Climate Justice Opportunities After US Carbon Market and Legislative Crashes
Commentary, April, 01 2010
Patrick Bond
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Fierce debating about United States climate justice (CJ) strategies and tactics on ZNet over the past couple of months leave us ready to continue exploring comradely but sharp differences.
Bond: Class apartheid in South African society, at our university and in climate politics
Commentary, February, 15 2010
Patrick Bond
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Before we get to some hot South African political economy and political ecology, first consider the psycho-socio-sexual-sporting context.
Bond: Dennis Vincent Brutus, 1924-2009
Zmag Article, February, 01 2010
Patrick Bond
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Remembering an anti-apartheid organizer, prisoner, and poet
Bond: Robin, your carbon market ship is sinking fast
Znet Article, January, 19 2010
Patrick Bond
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Patrick Bond replies to Robin Hahnel's ZNet article "Has The Left Missed The Boat On Climate Change?"
Bond: What we learned from Dennis Brutus' troubadour politics
Commentary, January, 06 2010
Patrick Bond
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Dennis Brutus died at age 85 on December 26, battling cancer, climate change and capitalism.
Bond: Dennis Vincent Brutus, 1924-2009
Znet Article, December, 26 2009
Patrick Bond
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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.
Bond: Curing Post-Copenhagen Hangover
Commentary, December, 23 2009
Patrick Bond
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In Copenhagen, the world's richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, ignoring requests of global village neighbors to please chill out.
Bond: Countering critics of a cap-and-trade critique
Commentary, December, 16 2009
Patrick Bond
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Eight million people viewed Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff video since December 2007, and her new nine-minute Story of Cap and Trade received 400,000 hits in the two weeks after its December 1 launch.
Bond: From climate denialism to activist alliances in memory of Seattle
Commentary, November, 30 2009
Patrick Bond
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Preparations for the December 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit are going as expected, including a rare sighting of African elites' stiffened spines. That's a great development (maybe decisive), more about which below.
Bond: When the climate change center cannot hold
Commentary, October, 25 2009
Patrick Bond
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On a day that 350.org and thousands of allies are valiantly trying to raise global consciousness about impending catastrophe, we can ask some tough questions about what to do after people depart and the props are packed up. No matter today’s act...
Bond: 'Seattle' Copenhagen call, as Africans demand reparations
Commentary, September, 06 2009
Patrick Bond
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Here's a fairly simple choice: the Global North would pay hard-hit Global South sites to deal with climate crisis either through complicated, corrupt, controversial 'Clean Development Mechanism' (CDM) projects with plenty of damaging side effects ...
