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Pearson: Africa-South America Summit in Venezuela Cements South-South Collaboration
Znet Article, September, 27 2009
Tamara Pearson
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Creating a new Radio of the South, formalizing the Bank of the South, criticizing the make-up of the UN Security Council, and supporting Honduran President Manuel Zelaya were among the outcomes at the second Africa-South American Summit (ASA) that...
Patel: Ending Africa's Hunger
Znet Article, September, 08 2009
Raj Patel
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More than a billion people eat fewer than 1,900 calories per day. The majority of them work in agriculture, about 60 percent are women or girls, and most are in rural Africa and Asia. Ending their hunger is one of the few unimpeachably noble tasks...
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 ...
Gberie: Guinea-Sierra Leone Border Dispute
Znet Article, August, 15 2009
Lansana Gberie
Gberie's ZSpace page
A necessary – and mutually applauded – security measure taken by Guinean forces during Sierra Leone’s brutal rebel war has since the war ended escalated into a border dispute which threatens the stability of both states.
Gberie: Liberia's TRC Report
Znet Article, July, 08 2009
Lansana Gberie
Gberie's ZSpace page
Over five years after its brutal insurgencies ended with the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) in 2003 and the deployment of thousands of UN troops (at a cost of over $600 million per year), Liberia is enmeshed in another conflict alt...
Podur: The wealth of Kigali's boom
Znet Article, July, 06 2009
Justin Podur
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I returned from Bukavu yesterday. A sign of a country not having full sovereignty is the fact that you have to get there through another country. Those who have business in Rwanda can go through Rwanda, flying into Kigali and going overland into B...
Bond: South Africa: Balance shifts left, anger grows
Znet Article, July, 03 2009
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
With high-volume class strife heard in the rumbling of wage demands and the friction of township "service delivery protests", rhetorical and real conflicts are bursting open in every nook and cranny of South Africa.
Fletcher jr.: When Torture Is Dismissed
Commentary, June, 30 2009
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
Many people on the Left have difficulty addressing the issue of torture. Certainly when the torture is carried out by imperialists, there is no problem condemning it. But what happens when torture is carried out by organizations or governments tha...
Podur: Between the hills and the lake: hello from Bukavu
Znet Article, June, 29 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
I'm in Bukavu, in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's a big city! About a million people, in the uplands, on the coast of a strange and geologically fascinating volcanic origin Lake Kivu.
Goodman: Two Men Who Stood Under the Plunderers’ Knives
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Amy Goodman
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Ken Saro-Wiwa and Alberto Pizango never met, but they are united by a passion for the preservation of their people and their land, and by the fervor with which they were targeted by their respective governments. Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Niger...
Warah: The Development Myth*
Znet Article, May, 11 2009
Rasna Warah
Warah's ZSpace page
Recently, development assistance and aid to Africa has come under attack from the most unlikely quarters – the Africans themselves. The question of whether aid is good or bad for Africa has been tacked by those on both the political righ...
Gberie: Congo Journal
Znet Article, May, 06 2009
Lansana Gberie
Gberie's ZSpace page
I was last in the Congo in late 1996. It was not long after the horrors of Rwanda.
Fletcher jr.: Obama and the Somalia Dilemma
Znet Article, April, 17 2009
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
With all of the discussion about the pirating of a US ship off the coast of Somalia, it is possible to overlook a far more important discussion concerning the Horn of Africa. According to the Saturday, April 11th issue of the Washington Post the O...
Glover: Race and the Obama Administration
Znet Article, April, 09 2009
Danny Glover
Glover's ZSpace page
In 2001 I traveled to Durban, South Africa, to join the tens of thousands of people who came to participate in the United Nations-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. More than 2,000...
Bond: Dying for the cause in Durban
Commentary, April, 07 2009
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
There are special places dedicated to the memories of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi, Martin Luther King in Memphis, Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem and South Africa's own Hector Pieterson in Soweto. These and many other activists strivin...
Bond: Apartheid reparations and other courtroom brawls
Commentary, March, 19 2009
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The movement for reparations against transnational corporations that profited from apartheid is finally making progress within the generally hostile US judicial system, using the 'Alien Tort Claims Act' (ATCA) and public pressure. Along with Denni...
Baroud: Durban II: Politicizing Racism
Znet Article, March, 13 2009
Ramzy Baroud
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Many countries are set to participate in the Conference against Racism, scheduled to be held in Geneva, April 20-25. But the highly touted international meet is already marred with disagreement after Israel, the United States and other countries d...
Suttner: Further Developments in South Africa ANC Crisis and the Rise of COPE [1]
Znet Article, March, 13 2009
Raymond Suttner
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We all feel that there is something very different about the forthcoming April elections, about the current political situation and the ANC. What is this? Why am I feeling sufficiently confident to make such a generalisation?
Suttner: Revolutionary Morality in the ANC Underground
Znet Article, March, 01 2009
Raymond Suttner
Suttner's ZSpace page
a chapter from the book The ANC Underground in South Africa to 1976: A Social and Historical Study.
Fletcher jr.: Zimbabwe: Transition to Where?
Znet Article, February, 20 2009
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
The struggle in Zimbabwe has never been a clean one...
