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Bond: ‘Closing the Doors of Learning’ (to the Israeli State) Opens the Doors Of Freedom
Znet Article, May, 25 2012
Patrick Bond
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A time for dialogue with Israel’s official representatives should wait until nonviolent public pressure against the regime mounts and the extreme power imbalance is lessened
Bond: Africa’s Biggest Landfill Site: The Case Of Bisasar Road
Znet Article, April, 29 2012
Patrick Bond
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Despite opposition to the dump from residents, and government promises to close and rehabilitate it, Durban Solid Waste supported its continued use
Bond: Can a Nigerian Squeeze the Poor for the World Bank?
Znet Article, April, 11 2012
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
It is most tempting to support any African challenge to Washington – especially by a strong woman – given how much damage (half-Kenyan) Obama is doing to the continent
Bond: Promise-breaking at the World Bank
Znet Article, April, 07 2012
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
It is safe to assume that when it comes to serving power, Kim will be more reliable and effective, simply because he’s imperialism’s choice
Bond: Crony Capitalism 2.0 and the Wretched of South Africa
Znet Article, April, 06 2012
Patrick Bond
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Wrecking a few companies is one thing, but wrecking a country through these sorts of personal manipulations of the powerful is a tragedy turned farce
Bond: The Leftist Spy Who Came In From Cold Pretoria
Znet Article, March, 29 2012
Patrick Bond
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Renewed contradictions for Ronnie Kasrils
Bond: Why Treasury Should Be Transformed, Not Treasured
Znet Article, March, 17 2012
Patrick Bond
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The Treasury remains addicted to failed neoliberal policies, leaving our economy in the doldrums
Bond: ‘Global Sustainability’ Wilts In South Africa’s Political Hot Air
Znet Article, February, 16 2012
Patrick Bond
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Under conditions of neoliberal nationalism, the outcome of most public policy in South Africa is inevitably crony capitalism rife with corruption
Bond: Economic Advice That Can Hurt the Poor
Znet Article, February, 02 2012
Patrick Bond
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The poverty innate to the IMF’s best model, Tunisia, cannot be solved by paper rights aiming to integrate poor people into a rotting ‘formal’ economy
Bond: Time to Occupy Durban's COP17 Climate Summit
Znet Article, November, 23 2011
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
In many cases the courageous push by the 99% against these 1% personalities only dislodged the venal creatures, not the system, so replacements crawled right back in
Bond: Leaving Oil in the Soil, from Durban’s Coast to Ecuador’s Amazon
Znet Article, August, 05 2011
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
To solve the climate crisis requires we must accept that the vast majority of fossil fuels must now be left underground
Bond: A Climate Conference, Old And New Oil Curses, And Norwegian ‘Good Samaritans’
Znet Article, November, 23 2010
Patrick Bond
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The stench of rotting blubber would hang for days over The Bluff in South Durban, thanks to Norwegian immigrants whose harpooning skills helped stock the town with cooking fat, margarine and soap, starting about a century ago.
Bond: Robin, your carbon market ship is sinking fast
Znet Article, January, 19 2010
Patrick Bond
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Patrick Bond replies to Robin Hahnel's ZNet article "Has The Left Missed The Boat On Climate Change?"
Bond: Dennis Vincent Brutus, 1924-2009
Znet Article, December, 26 2009
Patrick Bond
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World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa's most celebrated poets, Dennis Brutus, died early on December 26 in Cape Town, in his sleep, aged 85.
Bond: Reimagining Postneoliberalism
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Patrick Bond
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If neoliberalism may have another breath of life, with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation applied from above by Barack Obama or the International Monetary Fund, much stronger pressure is needed from below to resist. Some forms have been well tested in s...
Bond: South Africa: Balance shifts left, anger grows
Znet Article, July, 03 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: The financial meltdown: Roots of the economic crisis in overaccumulation, financialisation and ‘global apartheid’
Znet Article, October, 14 2008
Patrick Bond
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The global economy’s vast financial sector expansion – in the context of productive sector stagnation tendencies – has increased the leading powerbrokers’ capacity to devalue large parts of the Third World (including major emerging market sites), ...
Bond: Uneven Health Outcomes and Political Resistance under Residual Neoliberalism in Africa
Znet Article, February, 27 2008
Patrick Bond
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In the wake of the devastation wrought in Africa by two decades of ‘neoliberalism’--i.e., state policies that are market-oriented, export-led, subjet to fiscal austerity and characterized by the commercialization/privatization of public sector fun...
Bond: Uneven Health Outcomes and Political Resistance under Residual Neoliberalism in Africa
Znet Article, February, 27 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
In the wake of the devastation wrought in Africa by two decades of ‘neoliberalism’--i.e., state policies that are market-oriented, export-led, subjet to fiscal austerity and characterized by the commercialization/privatization of public sector fun...
Bond: Embryonic African anti-capitalism
Znet Article, February, 27 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
When it comes to anti-capitalist resistance, the most economically-marginalized sites are amongst the most interesting. Not because the greatest number of militant activists are out in force--but because the trials and tribulations they overcome a...
Bond: Housing
Znet Article, February, 26 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The pages below are from the introductory and concluding chapters to Unsustainable South Africa, which makes a long, detailed case that the host city for the August 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development needs revolutionary change. The case ...
Bond: Water Activists Turn On The Taps And Turn Up The Pressure
Znet Article, March, 25 2006
Patrick Bond
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On March 16 in Mexico City, thousands of grassroots water warriors marched against an equivalent number of establishment delegates from governments, corporations and international agencies at the World Water Forum. The activists, opposed to what ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bond: Corporate Cost-benefit Analysis And Culpable Hiv/aids Homicide
Znet Article, June, 25 2002
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
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...
Bond: NEPAD
Znet Article, June, 20 2002
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
South African president Thabo Mbeki made the cover page of the international edition of Time magazine in early June, with the misleading heading: `He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for a new African developme...
Bond: Zimbabwe's Ripoff Poll
Znet Article, March, 15 2002
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
By a vote of 1.69 million for Robert Mugabe to 1.28 million for Morgan Tsvangirai, the people of Zimbabwe re-elected the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu) president last weekend. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), founded in September ...
Bond: Thabo Mbeki addresses his compatriots
Znet Article, February, 18 2002
Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki's opening of parliament on February 8 was eagerly awaited, and began with a grand motif: "The global struggle to eradicate poverty and underdevelopment is fundamental to the well-being of human society."Mbeki's ...
