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Bond: As Climate Summit Approaches, SA Industrial Policy Hits Green Wall
Commentary, April, 18 2011
Patrick Bond
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Hosting the Durban COP17 – let’s rename it the ‘Conference of Polluters’ – starting in late November puts quite a burden on the African National Congress government in Pretoria: to pretend to be pro-green.
Bond: When Civil-Societyism Fronts For Barbarism
Commentary, March, 19 2011
Patrick Bond
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If Muammar Gaddafi’s wicked son Saif is to be believed, we will soon be witnessing “rivers of blood” in Benghazi...
Bond: ‘Mubaraking’ Muammar, Maliki, Mugabe and more
Commentary, February, 28 2011
Patrick Bond
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The late poet-activist Dennis Brutus occasionally used ‘Seattle’, the name of a city in the northwestern United States, as a verb. We should ‘seattle Copenhagen’, he said in late 2009, to prevent the North from doing a climate deal in their intere...
Bond: The South African Government’s ‘Talk Left Walk Right’ Climate Policy
Commentary, February, 19 2011
Patrick Bond
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As the Kyoto Protocol’s Conference of the Parties draws closer, we will encounter even more frequent public relations blasts than witnessed in the same International Convention Centre district a decade ago.
Bond: Dethroning King Coal in 2011, from West Virginia (January) to Durban (December)
Commentary, January, 30 2011
Patrick Bond
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South Africa’s crust was drill-pocked with abandon since Kimberley diamonds were found in 1867 and then Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) gold was unearthed in 1886.
Bond: ‘Climate Capitalism’ Won At Cancun - Everyone Else Loses
Commentary, December, 14 2010
Patrick Bond
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The December 11 closure of the global climate summit in Cancun has been portrayed a "step forward."
Bond: A century since Hilferding’s Finanz Kapital – again, apparently, a banker’s world?
Commentary, November, 21 2010
Patrick Bond
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The power and reach of financial institutions, not to mention the resulting superprofits, are the source of widespread, often extreme frustration.
Bond: Will Zimbabwe Again Regress?
Commentary, November, 14 2010
Patrick Bond
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If leaders of a little African country stand up to imperialist aggression, that would strike any fair observer as extremely compelling...
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: 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: 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 ...
Bond: SA political power balance shifts left - though not yet enough to quell grassroots anger
Commentary, June, 13 2009
Patrick Bond
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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.
Bond: Shell on trial while Nigerians are slaughtered
Commentary, May, 25 2009
Patrick Bond
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The state's most recent assault against the Delta left the villages of Opuye, Okerenkoro, Kurutie and Oporoza (site of the new documentary Sweet Crude - www.sweetcrudemovie.com ) burned to the ground in mid-May, with hundreds of Ijaw people - both...
Bond: Dying for the cause in Durban
Commentary, April, 07 2009
Patrick Bond
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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
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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...
Bond: Durban for Palestine via BDS
Commentary, February, 05 2009
Patrick Bond
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The decision on February 3 by South African dockworkers to refuse handling of Israeli imports is of enormous importance for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and will prod more local Durban citizens - including academics and cu...
