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Bond: Wolfowitz's 'anti-corruption' hoax
Commentary, March, 08 2006
Patrick Bond
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A few weeks ago, Colin Powell's former chief of staff in the State Department, Lawrence Wilkerson, revealed to a PBS NOW audience something we all knew anyway about Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal: 'I participated in a hoax on the American people...
Bond: Municipal elections won't appease furious South Africans
Commentary, February, 13 2006
Patrick Bond
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The run-up to March 1 elections for 284 South African city, town and
Bond: Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Climate Change Titanic
Commentary, November, 29 2005
Patrick Bond
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Climate change damage, the subject of a major Montreal 'Conference of Parties 11' which aims to update the Kyoto Protocol from November 28-December 9, is apparent to anyone following the news.
Bond: World Bankers And Oil Barons Loot Africa
Commentary, October, 04 2005
Patrick Bond
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With apartheid-like race/class practices in New Orleans so recently unveiled, Washington's self-congratulatory rhetoric about sub-Saharan Africa at last weekend's IMF/World Bank annual general meeting was not just sickening but also counterintuiti...
Bond: Dragging SAÕs Land Debate from the Neoliberal Quicksand
Commentary, August, 29 2005
Patrick Bond
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There are a great many surface-level political processes now unfolding in South Africa, reflecting underlying contradictions that are irreconcilable.
Bond: Dragging SA’s Land Debate from the Neoliberal Quicksand
Commentary, August, 29 2005
Patrick Bond
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There are a great many surface-level political processes now unfolding in South Africa, reflecting underlying contradictions that are irreconcilable.
Bond: Are mainstream NGOs failing Africa?
Commentary, June, 21 2005
Patrick Bond
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by Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus and Virginia Setshedi What's on offer for Africa from the trendy but top-down initiatives called Make Poverty History and Live 8, and even the Johannesburg-based Global Call to Action Against Poverty? We worry tha...
Bond: Anti-(sub)imperial Solidarity: The Case Of SA-Zimbabwe
Commentary, May, 23 2005
Patrick Bond
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Last month (April 15), David Moore and I wrote in ZNet about Zimbabwe's March 31 election scam. On May 22, Johannesburg's Sunday Independent newspaper reported on a leaked copy of an official - and thoroughly ludicrous - South African mission cove...
Bond: ZimbabweÕs Stolen Elections (continued)
Commentary, April, 15 2005
Patrick Bond
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What just happened in ZimbabweÕs March 31 national parliamentary poll?
Bond: Zimbabwe’s Stolen Elections (continued)
Commentary, April, 15 2005
Patrick Bond
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What just happened in Zimbabwe’s March 31 national parliamentary poll?
Bond: A New War?: On Wolfowitz's World Bank!
Commentary, March, 23 2005
Patrick Bond
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The 1200 anti-war/profit demonstrators who wound their way through central Johannesburg on Saturday heard fiery speeches, music and poetry. At the start and finish, protesters were inspired by 80-year old Dennis Brutus, the great anti-apartheid po...
Bond: Discussing the Porto Alegre Manifesto
Commentary, February, 22 2005
Patrick Bond
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Discussing the Porto Alegre Manifesto
Bond: World Financial Volatility
Commentary, December, 27 2004
Patrick Bond
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World financial volatility
Bond: Crunch time for US capitalism?
Commentary, December, 04 2004
Patrick Bond
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If you are like many aggrieved people I know, the prospect of the US economic empire stumbling, tripping, and maybe even crashing is welcome indeed.
Bond: Bankers go to Baghdad
Commentary, October, 25 2004
Patrick Bond
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The World Bank and International Monetary Fund's annual meeting in Washington earlier this month witnessed the members' rejection of two big ideas - debt cancellation and institutional democratisation. No surprise. There wasn't much pressure from ...
Bond: NGOs and Pretoria nod-nod, wink-wink to IMF/Bank
Commentary, September, 12 2004
Patrick Bond
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The 60th birthday of the Bretton Woods Institutions - the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Ð will be formally celebrated early next month, amidst the distraction of the US presidential campaign. Finance ministers and bankers will g...
Bond: Africa again foiled by elites, North and South
Commentary, July, 22 2004
Patrick Bond
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Mutare, Zimbabwe - 22 July is a good day to consider problems caused by the rancid combination of neoliberalism and imperialist geopolitcs, because it's the 60th birthday of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). It's a good time to...
Bond: Assessing the Latin American Left (part 2)
Commentary, June, 30 2004
Patrick Bond
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Early last month, at the University of Wisconsin's Havens Center - supported by Amsterdam's Transnational Institute - radicals from ten countries came to discuss the "The New Latin American Left." In my last ZNet commentary, I reported on six of t...
Bond: Assessing the Latin American Left (part 1)
Commentary, May, 11 2004
Patrick Bond
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One of the great punchlines in politics I was fortunate to hear first-hand, was during a 1989 interview for Pacifica Radio with Brazilian presidential candidate Lula. ?You?ve just been in New York, meeting the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerc...
Bond: Apartheid: Ten Years After
Znet Article, May, 06 2004
Patrick Bond
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TEN YEARS ago, South Africa’s racist apartheid system was finally swept away with the country’s first democratic elections. African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela--who had been imprisoned under apartheid--for 27 ye...
