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Commentary Bond: South Africa’s Sub-Imperial Seductions

Commentary, May, 10 2013 Patrick Bond
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Is Pretoria a destructive sub-imperialist power?

Commentary Bond: Brics Cook The Climate

Commentary, March, 25 2013 Patrick Bond
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While Brics fossil fuel addiction is well known, less understood is how their heads of states consistently sabotage global climate talks

Commentary Bond: Introducing Brics From Above, And Brics-From-Below

Commentary, March, 23 2013 Patrick Bond
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Given how much is at stake, critical civil society must scrutinise the claims, the processes and the outcomes of the Brics summit and its aftermath

Commentary Bond: Politics, Profits And Policing After The Marikana Massacre

Commentary, December, 21 2012 Patrick Bond
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LeeThere’s a word for the political direction in which South Africa is headed, and it begins with F.

Commentary Bond: South Africa’s Sanitation Cesspools

Commentary, December, 05 2012 Patrick Bond
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What the dog’s-breakfast Durban Platform confirms, then, was global-elite back-slapping generosity to each other, simultaneous with rank incompetence and utter disregard for the poor and environment

Commentary Bond: Will Next Year’s BRICS Summit Leave Another Disgrace In Durban?

Commentary, November, 23 2012 Patrick Bond
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Are the BRICS ‘anti-imperialist’ – or instead, ‘sub-imperialist’, doing deputy-sheriff duty for global corporations?

Commentary Bond: Jim Yong Kim Comes To Joburg: But Will World Bank President Visit Marikana And Medupi?

Commentary, September, 06 2012 Patrick Bond
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If after this week’s trip, Kim decides to leave the toxic culture of SA’s minerals-energy complex unchanged, it will be yet another case of ‘dying for growth’

Commentary Bond: In Climate Of Repression, Who Can Surf South Africa’s Micro-Protest Wave?

Commentary, July, 18 2012 Patrick Bond
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The recent surge of unconnected community protests across South Africa confirms the country’s profound social, economic and environmental contradictions

Commentary Bond: Values Versus Prices at the Rio+20 Earth Summit

Commentary, June, 19 2012 Patrick Bond
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The Rio+20 Earth Summit, devoted to advancing Green Economy policies and projects, appears as an overall disaster zone for the people and planet

Commentary Bond: Bilderbergers Beware

Commentary, June, 07 2012 Patrick Bond
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Populists confront US-European ‘.0001%’ in Washington

Commentary Bond: Inclusive Green Growth Or Extractive Greenwashed Decay?

Commentary, May, 26 2012 Patrick Bond
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The debate over the Green Economy rages on next month in Rio de Janeiro

Commentary Bond: South Africa’s Dangerously Unsafe Financial Intercourse

Commentary, April, 25 2012 Patrick Bond
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It’s South Africa’s turn for a new moral regeneration campaign, but this time one that takes seriously the challenge of economic liberation

Commentary Bond: South Africa’s Carbon-Tax Debate Disappoints

Commentary, March, 14 2012 Patrick Bond
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The only good news from South Africa is that with the world’s carbon markets in crisis, virtually no one is talking about emissions trading

Commentary Bond: When State- And Market-Climate Failures Are Amplified By Society-Failure

Commentary, February, 28 2012 Patrick Bond
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Advocating a risky market fix to a massive market failure under circumstances of widespread market melt, is the latest version of state failure

Commentary Bond: Steer Clear of this Climate ‘Ponzi Scheme’

Commentary, January, 26 2012 Patrick Bond
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Africa can do better than invest faith and state resources in yet another Ponzi scheme — the ‘privatisation of the air’

Commentary Bond: Can Durban Recover from City-Scale Neoliberal Nationalism?

Commentary, January, 03 2012 Patrick Bond
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Critical academics label this thuggish ideology ‘neoliberal nationalism’: a vindictive, anti-poor deployment of state power and resources, combined with revolutionary-sounding bombast

Commentary Bond: Durban’s Climate Zombie Tripped by Dying Carbon Markets

Commentary, December, 22 2011 Patrick Bond
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Of course it is tempting to ignore the stench of failure and declare Durban “an outstanding success,”

Commentary Bond: A Dirty Deal Coming Down in Durban

Commentary, December, 07 2011 Patrick Bond
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Most likely, our city will go down in infamy as the site that the temperature was dialed up on Africa

Commentary Bond: COP17’s Dirty Secret

Commentary, November, 30 2011 Patrick Bond
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One of the world’s most extreme cases of climate injustice happens to be the site for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties 17 (COP17) climate summit

Commentary Bond: Beware ‘Social Justice’ Promises by International Bankers

Commentary, October, 13 2011 Patrick Bond
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In these days of dire economic and environmental crisis, with political elites under attack from Athens to Washington, the establishment is desperate for legitimacy

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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?

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

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