Trump’s Isolationism: Threats And Opportunities For Africa – OpEd
Donald Trump’s ascension to the US Presidency has stunned many across the globe due to his strange views and prejudices.
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Author: Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond is professor of sociology at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He can be reached at: [email protected]
Articles by Patrick Bond :
South Africa’s Deprivations And Depravations Revealed In Jacob Zuma’s Meltdown – opEd
President Zuma has suffered two major legal defeats: a fumbled state attack on Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan which was humiliatingly
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Flight Of Corporate Profits Poses Biggest Threat To South Africa’s Economy – OpEd
The South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin has confirmed that foreign corporations are milking the economy, drawing away profits far
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South Africa: Can World’s Worst Case Of Inequality Be Fixed With Pikettian Posturing? – OpEd
Among the hot ideological wars South Africans wage, now that a viable left is rising in the trade unions and
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UN Millennium Development Goals Replaced By New ‘Distraction Gimmicks’ – OpEd
Last weekend in New York heralded another of the annual UN heads-of-state summits at which inappropriate targets, processes and evaluation
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South Africa’s Deal With The Devil, Revisited – OpEd
The ‘Faustian Pact’ metaphor as explanation for the South African liberation movement’s 1990s capitulation to neoliberal capitalism is offered by
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BRICS Bloc’s Rising ‘Sub-Imperialism’ – OpEd
The heads of state of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) network of governments are coming to Durban, South Africa, in four
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Washington in Africa 2012 – Analysis
‘At a time when popular revolutions are sweeping the globe, the United States should be strengthening, not weakening, basic rules
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Africa: Steer Clear Of This Ponzi Climate Scheme – OpEd
By Michael Dorsey and Patrick Bond In the middle of last year, when carbon prices fell 15 percent in one
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Time To Occupy Durban’s COP17 Climate Summit – OpEd
There they fell during 2011, one after the other in past-their-prime domino descent: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from Tunis,
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