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Butigan: A Resurgent Anti-Nuclear Movement
Sep 29, 2012
We are in the midst of the next phase of the movement for nuclear disarmament, where a series of campaigns across the U.S. are pumping life into the seven-decade struggle
Bond: Jim Yong Kim Comes To Joburg
Sep 06, 2012
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’
Baroud: Violence is Not News
Aug 24, 2012
We co-exist with tragedy, with the belief that bombs just go off randomly and that surviving victims cannot be helped
Boteach: Farm Bill Slams Middle Class
Jul 24, 2012
Bill makes the middle class pay for deficit reduction
Bond: South Africa’s Micro-Protest Wave
Jul 18, 2012
The recent surge of unconnected community protests across South Africa confirms the country’s profound social, economic and environmental contradictions
Bloice: "Austerity" Attack
Jul 02, 2012
It never ceases to amaze me how some people who are rich and famous are so quick to declare that others, who are neither, should have to suffer pain
Bond: Values Versus Prices at Rio+20
Jun 19, 2012
The Rio+20 Earth Summit, devoted to advancing Green Economy policies and projects, appears as an overall disaster zone for the people and planet
Black: The JOBS Act and Green Slime
Jun 15, 2012
In place of a real jobs bill, an invitation to fraud
Bond: Bilderbergers Beware
Jun 07, 2012
Populists confront US-European ‘.0001%’ in Washington
Benjamin: Colin Powell: Another War Criminal Cashes In
Jun 06, 2012
Rather than apologize to the victims of the Iraq war, Colin Powell he has decided to cash in, hawking his latest volume of apologia
Bond: Inclusive Green Growth
May 26, 2012
The debate over the Green Economy rages on next month in Rio de Janeiro
Bond: South Africa’s Financial Intercourse
Apr 25, 2012
It’s South Africa’s turn for a new moral regeneration campaign, but this time one that takes seriously the challenge of economic liberation
Bond: South Africa’s Carbon-Tax Debate Disappoints
Mar 14, 2012
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
Bond: State And Market Climate Failures
Feb 28, 2012
Advocating a risky market fix to a massive market failure under circumstances of widespread market melt, is the latest version of state failure
Berman: The .0000063% Election
Feb 17, 2012
How the politics of the super rich became American politics
Bond: Steer Clear of this Climate ‘Ponzi Scheme’
Jan 26, 2012
Africa can do better than invest faith and state resources in yet another Ponzi scheme — the ‘privatisation of the air’
Billet: As Many Roles As People Make It
Jan 24, 2012
Interview with Ani Difranco on her album, the evolution of her own work, and her belief in music as a force for social change
Bennett: The Torture of Mumia Abu-Jamal Continues
Jan 21, 2012
Race-based policies of mass incarceration violate the human right of equality under the law and the right to be free from racial discrimination
Bond: Can Durban Recover from City-Scale Neoliberal Nationalism?
Jan 03, 2012
Critical academics label this thuggish ideology ‘neoliberal nationalism’: a vindictive, anti-poor deployment of state power and resources, combined with revolutionary-sounding bombast
Oct 05, 2012
34 trade unionists have been assassinated and 485 leaders have received death threats since the Labor Action Plan has been in effect in Colombia