December 13, 2021

  • Love on Fire

    DIMAKATSO SEDITE Dimakatso Sedite was born in Bloemfontein in 1969. She trained as a research psychologist and has worked in the areas of child rights, livelihoods and HIV/AIDS. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in several anthologies, journals and writer blogs. She was a joint winner of the 2019 Dalro poetry prize. Yellow Shade… Continue reading

  • The Covid Vaccine War

    SPR and several independent geopolitical analysts have been warning since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic that the pandemic might be used as a rationale or pretext to impose a global digital biometric identity system, introduced as “vaccine passports”, that may later be expanded into a Chinese-style “social credit” population control system. Continue reading

  • The bleak shelter of Yellow Shade

    The asymmetrical chair and the table cloth sitting skew in the Sam Nhlengethwa lithograph (My Grandmother’s Kitchen in the 60’s) on the cover of Yellow Shade (Deep South) are apt metaphors for how Dimakatso Sedite represents black life. Scenes are off-kilter and co-ordinates are out of place. Her poems are set in townships — the post-apocalyptic townships of… Continue reading

  • A Day in the Death of British Justice

    The pursuit of Julian Assange for revealing secrets and lies of governments, especially the crimes of America, has entered its final stage as the British judiciary – upholders of ‘British justice’ – merge their deliberations with the undeterred power of Washington. I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London with… Continue reading

  • Julian Assange News LInks 11-13 December 2021

    13 December 2021 — The New Dark Age A Day in the Death of British Justice https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/12/a-day-in-the-death-of-british-justice/ The Assange Case Is the U.S. Defending Its Right to Lie https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/12/12/assange-case-us-defending-its-right-lie/ Journalism, Assange and Reversal in the UK High Court. The Extradition Procedure https://www.globalresearch.ca/journalism-assange-reversal-high-court/5764386 Continue reading

  • Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class

    Much academic debate about the origin of capitalism has actually been about the origin of capitalists. Were they originally aristocrats, or gentry, or merchants, or successful farmers? Far less attention has been paid to Brecht’s penetrating question: who did the actual work? Continue reading