Africa
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Mandela's greatness may be secured, but not his legacy By John Pilger
When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister’s residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at the gates, it was as if the guards had not changed. White Afrikaners checked my ID with the confidence of men in secure work. One carried… Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 9 July 2013: Echoes of South Africa’s ’District Six’ in the Negev
9 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Invades Al-QararaIMEMC – Palestinian sources have reported that a number of Israeli military vehicles advanced on Tuesday at dawn [July 9 2013] hundreds of meters into the Al-Qarara town, north east of Khan Younis city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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Obama in South Africa: Political and Media Disconnect By Michael Shaw
If anything, we need to understand these protest images in S. Africa more in terms of current and similar photos from Brazil and Turkey. The public, in other words, is more sensitive these days to when they’re being patronized. Continue reading
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Obama in South Africa: Washington tells Pretoria how to ‘play the game’ in Africa By Patrick Bond
US President Barack Barack Obama’s weekend trip to South Africa may have the desired effect of slowing the geopolitical realignment of Pretoria to the Brazil-India-Russia-China-South Africa (BRICS) axis. That shift to BRICS has not, however, meant deviation from the hosts’ political philosophy, best understood as “talk left, walk right” since it mixes anti-imperialist rhetoric with… Continue reading
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Obama in South Africa: Washington tells Pretoria how to ‘play the game’ in Africa By Patrick Bond
US President Barack Barack Obama’s weekend trip to South Africa may have the desired effect of slowing the geopolitical realignment of Pretoria to the Brazil-India-Russia-China-South Africa (BRICS) axis. That shift to BRICS has not, however, meant deviation from the hosts’ political philosophy, best understood as “talk left, walk right” since it mixes anti-imperialist rhetoric with… Continue reading
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How the ANC's Faustian Pact Sold Out South Africa's Poorest By Ronnie Kasrils
A veteran of the South African freedom struggle and its Black-led government says the African National Congress’ soul “was eventually lost to corporate power: we were entrapped by the neoliberal economy – or, as some today cry out, we ‘sold our people down the river.’” Continue reading
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ColdType Issue 75 26 June 2013
26 June 2013 — Coldtype.net The latest issue of ColdType is now on line at http://coldtype.net Continue reading
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The MPs with a finger in the health service pie By Will Stone
As each year goes by it’s becoming more and more difficult to say that Britain’s health service is entirely publicly funded and free at the point of use. Continue reading
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Racism and Institutionalised Discrimination: How Israeli Apartheid is Coming Unstuck By Jonathon Cook
Superland, a large amusement park near Tel Aviv, refused to accept a booking from an Arab school on its preferred date in late May. When a staff member called back impersonating a Jew, Superland approved the booking immediately. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 635: SPECIAL ISSUE: MOBILISING YOUTH IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA
20 June 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 9-15 June 2013: Golan / Syria / Energy / Africa / NSA / Finance / Afghanistan-Pakistan / US-China / Turkey / Venezuela
15 June 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation UNDOF in Pinch, Russia Lends Helping Hand15.06.2013 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV The peacekeeping story is a proof Russia plays by the rules. The country has no reputation of international law abuser and can be trusted… What is important – Russia has good relations with Israel, Syria and a Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 633: MILITARISM, CHINA IN AFRICA AND SILENCING TRUTHS
7 June 2013 — Pambazuka NewsThe authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 June 2013: Andy Young Still a Shameless Son, Et Tu Bill Thompson, Ben Jealous's Indecent Proposal
5 June 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Shameless Son Andy Young’s “Foreign Aid” Scam Evaporates Amid Charges of Malfeasance, Insider Dealing by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Former civil rights figure and ex-Atlanta mayor Andrew Young took part in a perfectly legal “foreign aid” scheme that might have Continue reading
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Fania Allstars with Celia Cruz Live in Africa
The greatest Salsa band to come out of Nueva York! Recorded in Kinshasa, Congo in 1974 as part of Mohammed Ali’s ‘Rumble in the Jungle’. One and a half hours of fantastic music. Continue reading
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Sweden Rebellions Reveal Deepening Racial and Class Divisions By Abayomi Azikiwe
The unrest began when a nearly 70-year-old Portuguese immigrant died in Husby as a result of police actions. The official story was that the senior citizen had welded a machete at officers, however, other sources from the community said that it was not a machete but a knife and that no one had been held… Continue reading
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ColdType Issue 74: Chris Hedges’ The Shame of America’s Gulags / Loretta Napoleoni / Danny Schechter…
24 May 2013 — Coldtype.net The latest issue of ColdType is now on line at http://coldtype.netThis month’s Cover Story, Chris Hedges’ The Shame of America’s Gulags, provides a disturbing insight into conditions inside the most secure prisons in the United States. It’s chilling reading from a country that lays claim to being the freest and most humane in Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 631: SPECIAL ISSUE: AU/OAU AT 50, CELEBRATION AND REFLECTION
23 May 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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BLACK AGENDA TV – "Black Diamonds”: South Africa’s Black Millionaires Act as Middlemen for Corporate Power
An elite class of Black millionaires has “accumulate wealth at the expense of the vast majority” of South Africa’s people, said community organizer and researcher Molefi Ndlovu, on the latest edition of Black Agenda Television. These “Black Diamonds,” as they are called, have become “a sort of middleman, people who push the envelop for the… Continue reading
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