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Bond: Dragging SAÕs Land Debate from the Neoliberal Quicksand
Aug 29, 2005
There are a great many surface-level political processes now unfolding in South Africa, reflecting underlying contradictions that are irreconcilable.
Bond: Are mainstream NGOs failing Africa?
Jun 21, 2005
by Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus and Virginia Setshedi What's on offer for Africa from the trendy but top-down initiatives called Make Poverty History and Live 8, and even the Johannesburg-based Global Call to Action Against Poverty? We worry that these
Bond: Anti-(sub)imperial Solidarity: The Case Of SA-Zimbabwe
May 23, 2005
Last month (April 15), David Moore and I wrote in ZNet about Zimbabwe's March 31 election scam. On May 22, Johannesburg's Sunday Independent newspaper reported on a leaked copy of an official - and thoroughly ludicrous - South African mission covering the
Bond: Zimbabwe’s Stolen Elections (continued)
Apr 15, 2005
What just happened in Zimbabwe’s March 31 national parliamentary poll?
Bond: ZimbabweÕs Stolen Elections (continued)
Apr 15, 2005
What just happened in ZimbabweÕs March 31 national parliamentary poll?
Bond: A New War?: On Wolfowitz's World Bank!
Mar 23, 2005
The 1200 anti-war/profit demonstrators who wound their way through central Johannesburg on Saturday heard fiery speeches, music and poetry. At the start and finish, protesters were inspired by 80-year old Dennis Brutus, the great anti-apartheid poet who h
Bond: Discussing the Porto Alegre Manifesto
Feb 22, 2005
Discussing the Porto Alegre Manifesto
Bond: World Financial Volatility
Dec 27, 2004
World financial volatility
Bohmer: Building a Movement Against the Shipment of Weapons to Iraq
Dec 05, 2004
Like many other communities, activism in Olympia, Washington against the war and the U.S. occupation of Iraq declined somewhat since the large protests in February and March 2003. Currently, although the victory by Bush and the Republicans nationally has
Bond: Crunch time for US capitalism?
Dec 04, 2004
If you are like many aggrieved people I know, the prospect of the US economic empire stumbling, tripping, and maybe even crashing is welcome indeed.
Bagdikian: Now Murdoch, Like The Bushes, Needs Saudi Money
Nov 30, 2004
You didn't have to see Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 to discover that the Bush family, senior and junior, have had a special relationship with the Saudis for along time (in the film Moore showed that the administration, when they had grounded all commer
Bond: Bankers go to Baghdad
Oct 25, 2004
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund's annual meeting in Washington earlier this month witnessed the members' rejection of two big ideas - debt cancellation and institutional democratisation. No surprise. There wasn't much pressure from either T
Burchill: What exactly are we witnessing?
Sep 17, 2004
Politically motivated violence which accepts no limits or constraints and makes no distinction between combatants and civilians is indefensible, both morally and tactically. Public horror and outrage at recent events in the Caucasus and again in Indonesia
Bond: NGOs and Pretoria nod-nod, wink-wink to IMF/Bank
Sep 12, 2004
The 60th birthday of the Bretton Woods Institutions - the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Ð will be formally celebrated early next month, amidst the distraction of the US presidential campaign. Finance ministers and bankers will gather in
Bond: Africa again foiled by elites, North and South
Jul 22, 2004
Mutare, Zimbabwe - 22 July is a good day to consider problems caused by the rancid combination of neoliberalism and imperialist geopolitcs, because it's the 60th birthday of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). It's a good time to recall
Burchill: Resistance, Collaboration And Terrorism
Jul 13, 2004
They were called "dead-enders," then "Saddam loyalists" and "remnants of the old regime." This was when the Pentagon was in denial about the insurgency it faced in Iraq. Later it was "foreign terrorists," whom we were told it was better to confront in Ira
Bond: Assessing the Latin American Left (part 2)
Jun 30, 2004
Early last month, at the University of Wisconsin's Havens Center - supported by Amsterdam's Transnational Institute - radicals from ten countries came to discuss the "The New Latin American Left." In my last ZNet commentary, I reported on six of those sit
Bond: Assessing the Latin American Left (part 1)
May 11, 2004
One of the great punchlines in politics I was fortunate to hear first-hand, was during a 1989 interview for Pacifica Radio with Brazilian presidential candidate Lula. ?You?ve just been in New York, meeting the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce. What
Bond: Fake Forests, Extractive Industries And Elusive Aids Medicines
Mar 01, 2004
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 dramatic es
Aug 29, 2005
There are a great many surface-level political processes now unfolding in South Africa, reflecting underlying contradictions that are irreconcilable.