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UNCLE SAM’S BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES

Book Review REEL POWER: HOLLYWOOD CINEMA AND AMERICAN SUPREMACY AUTHOR: MATTHEW ALFORD PLUTO PRESS 2010 Just when you thought it was safe to start watching the latest Hollywood blockbuster (that pirated copy of the Bourne Identity you got from a friend of a friend),...

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UNCLE SAM’S BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES

Book Review REEL POWER: HOLLYWOOD CINEMA AND AMERICAN SUPREMACY AUTHOR: MATTHEW ALFORD PLUTO PRESS 2010 Just when you thought it was safe to start watching the latest Hollywood blockbuster (that pirated copy of the Bourne Identity you got from a friend of a friend),...

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Amplats are lying

Amplats are lying

NO NEED FOR RETRENCHEMENTS  Delegates wrapped up the 19th annual African Mining Indaba in early February 2013 full of back-thumping promises to improve the public image of the sector. Little wonder that the mining captains feel the industry needs a facelift: since the...

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Chavez: Lessons for SA

Chavez: Lessons for SA

Fidel Castro said of Chavez, "If you want to know what kind of man he was, look who was crying at death and who was celebrating". The torrential hatred directed at Chavez from the metropoles of global power is hardly surprising. Perhaps more than any other, the...

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Crises are part of Capitalism’s metabolism

A crisis in the capitalist system is a kind of wake up call: speculative bubbles burst, the price of assets [8] moves back towards their real value; the least profitable corporations go bankrupt, and capital is destroyed [9]. Crises are in a way part of Capitalism's...

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The Weirdness Closes In

The Weirdness Closes In

On the face of it, Mamphela Ramphele's long political Calvary has not seemed so strange. It has been clear ever since she returned to South Africa, flushed with neoliberal propaganda and plugging effortlessly into the right-wing smear campaign against President Mbeki,...

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