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The messages of gloom and doom have been out there for some time now. Just about every other commentator is pronouncing on an impending failure of outcome for the Rio+20 Summit on sustainable development being hosted in Brazil this week. We are being told to temper...
In its March-April issue, Canadian Dimension magazine featured a very positive review of Deep Green Resistance. The reviewer said it “made me a better strategist,” and endorsed author Derrick Jenson’s assertion that “this book is about winning.” In my view, the...
Can Capitalism save the planet? Ted Steinberg is Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University. This article was originally published in Radical History Review 107 (Spring 2010), and is reposted here...
There are significant numbers of people in the wealthy countries who believe that the great issues of resource depletion and global environmental pollution are caused primarily by the huge number of people on the globe — currently about 7 billion — and that things...
Do Pretoria and Johannesburg deserve the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, cities along the ancient Jordan River which were, according to The Book of Genesis, consumed by fire and brimstone as punishment for sinful hedonism? Etymologically, Sodom – today just a salt pan at...
The battle for the electoral support of the millions of unemployed, unskilled and mostly ill-educated youth — perhaps the most crucial voting bloc for the 2014 elections — is now in the open. It came with the decision by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to march on Cosatu...
Hein Marais, London: Zed Books, 2011 Reviewed Hein Marais has produced a sustained, rigorous and compelling analysis of the political economy of post-apartheid South Africa. It is has no rival as an overview of the country’s trajectory since 1994. The first five...
If one has been relying solely on more recent mainstream press coverage and associated NGO–academic interpretations to understand and analyse South Africa’s foreign policy/diplomacy, then is be only a slight exaggeration to say that the overwhelming conclusion must be...
Despite all the talk about curbing greenhouse gas emissions, the world is burning more and more coal. The inconvenient truth is that coal remains a cheap and dirty fuel –and the idea of ‘clean’ coal remains a distant dream.This year’s UN climate negotiations are in...