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Commentary Bond: Fake Forests, Extractive Industries And Elusive Aids Medicines

Commentary, March, 01 2004 Patrick Bond
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One of South AfricaÕs most fascinating environments is the terrain leading from the eastern mountain range in Mpumalanga (Ôland of the rising sunÕ) province, down to the ÔlowveldÕ and the well-stocked Kruger game park bordering Mozambique. The dra...

Commentary Bond: Target: Mugabe, victim: Mbeki?

Commentary, January, 12 2004 Patrick Bond
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The leadership of one African country, Zimbabwe, still gets disproportionate demonisation from the West, for good and bad reasons. In addition to hostile media coverage, president Robert Mugabe and nearly 100 of his cronies face Ôsmart sanctionsÕ ...

Commentary Bond: Can Victory On Aids Medicines Catalyse Wider Change?

Commentary, December, 02 2003 Patrick Bond
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A rare activist-driven win for some of Africa's wretchedly poor women, men and children leaves me humbled. In June 2002, I wrote a ZNet column-'Corporate cost-benefit analysis and culpable HIV/AIDS homicide'-in which the main prediction proved par...

Commentary Bond: Mexicans Seek Alternatives To Socio-economic Rot

Commentary, October, 31 2003 Patrick Bond
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ÔWe are becoming critical again,Õ said a delighted Maria de los Angeles of El Colegio de Mexico midway through an October seminar at this Mexico City university. ÔAcademic economists used to stop at analysis of causality. Now we are ready to propo...

Commentary Bond: Cancun to Dubai

Commentary, September, 20 2003 Patrick Bond
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Well, that was a really great moment on the southeast corner of Mexico on Sunday, was it not?! A few Third World elites -- led by Kenyan and Ugandan delegates -- finally walked out of the World Trade Organisation summit, insulted to the bitter end...

Commentary Bond: Alliances and conflicts prior to Cancun

Commentary, September, 09 2003 Patrick Bond
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The poor nations are preparing for another unsatisfying round of trade talks in Cancun, and South Africa once again is lining up in a manner consistent with Third World rhetoric--and First World interests.

Znet Article Bond: My lesson from the WSSD: no more UN summits, thanks

Znet Article, September, 02 2003 Patrick Bond
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As a Johannesburg resident since 1990, and an academic who teaches environment and development in a public policy school, the WSSD was an enormously important educational experience for me, and also for our local social movements. They decided, no...

Commentary Bond: Rolling Back Water Privatisation

Commentary, August, 05 2003 Patrick Bond
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Another water war is brewing here in Johannesburg. If local and international trends are anything to go by, the people could defeat capital.

Commentary Bond: Bush in Africa

Commentary, July, 12 2003 Patrick Bond
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The petro-military-commerce safari that George Bush embarked upon this week may well succeed in the areas that progressive critics fear most. Those critics, ranged in protest in several African cities, are not shy about what's wrong with Washingto...

Commentary Bond: Cuba Dares

Commentary, May, 31 2003 Patrick Bond
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Any visitor initially experiencing Cuba might easily deduce that growing pressures make the continuation of the revolution and social progress untenable.

Znet Article Bond: Zimbabwe's Plunge

Znet Article, April, 08 2003 Patrick Bond
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ZNet commentator Patrick Bond and his colleague Simba Manyanya -- a Zimbabwean currently employed in Johannesburg by a UN agency -- provide information about the new, second edition of *Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and t...

Commentary Bond: Commodification: Kyoto threatens, WSF inspires resistance

Commentary, March, 05 2003 Patrick Bond
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The surgical counter-attack from the international left which impressed me most at Porto Alegre, was bullshit detection in relation to two Kyoto deals: the 1997 Protocol of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; and the upcoming World Wate...

Zmag Article Bond: Cultivating African Anti-Capitalism

Zmag Article, February, 01 2003 Patrick Bond
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W hen it comes to anti-capitalist resistance, the most economically marginalized sites are among the most interesting. Not because the greatest number of militant activists are out in force&mda...

Commentary Bond: "Deglobalization"? Sure, but...

Commentary, January, 13 2003 Patrick Bond
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My favorite haunt, Zimbabwe, is the delight of aggressive bourgeois commentators, one of whom wrote a month ago about that country's meltdown in the Economist (30 November 2002):

Commentary Bond: Southern Africa: support for ex-SLA fugitive and opposition to commodification

Commentary, December, 02 2002 Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg: Most ZNet readers will have heard of the November 8 arrest of former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive, James Kilgore, known here as John Pape. Across this region, first reactions--an outpouring of support from comrades, friends an...

Commentary Bond: Southern African Movements Seek Antidotes To Neoliberalism

Commentary, October, 14 2002 Patrick Bond
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Last week's two-day national labour stayaway against the impending privatisation of South African electricity, telephones, water and transport services was only a mixed success. But combined with other recent regional dynamics and ruling-party con...

Commentary Bond: Geopolitics of Jo'burg Protests: Independent Left beats Ruling Party

Commentary, September, 03 2002 Patrick Bond
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For ninety years, we've waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block of land in northeast Johannesburg called Alexandra Township. Today was breakout day, with South Africa's mos...

Znet Article Bond: Geopolitics of Jo'burg Protests

Znet Article, September, 02 2002 Patrick Bond
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For ninety years, we've waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block of land in northeast Johannesburg called Alexandra Township. Today was breakout day, with South Africa's mos...

Commentary Bond: Johannesburg Lefts Prepare To Summit Against The Global Elite

Commentary, August, 01 2002 Patrick Bond
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How mature and unified must a broad Left front in a given city become before it establishes a coherent critique of, and hosts demonstrations against, the international establishment?

Znet Article Bond: Corporate Cost-benefit Analysis And Culpable Hiv/aids Homicide

Znet Article, June, 25 2002 Patrick Bond
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During the last few days of June, at the same time the Treatment Action Campaign and Congress of South African Trade Unions are holding a massive people's conference in Durban to take forward the struggle against HIV/Aids, Thabo Mbeki will beg for...

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