Climate & Capitalism is pleased to publish, with permission from John Bellamy Foster and Monthly Review Press, this excerpt from Chapter 6 of The Vulnerable Planet. In the first part of the chapter, Foster discusses the “qualitative transformation in the level of...
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In defence of City Press | by Julius Malema
Julius Malema argues against the ANC's campaign to boycott the newspaper ENGAGE AND NOT BAN THE CITY PRESS In my tenure as President of the ANC Youth League, I have been a victim of vilification and dis-reputation by many South African leading newspapers. The...
Return of the one-state solution | by Phil Gasper
The case for a single democratic secular state in historic Palestine. ISRAEL’S BRUTAL rampage in the Gaza Strip in December and January claimed the lives of more than 1,300 Palestinians, the majority of them unarmed civilians according to the Israeli human rights...
Nazism, Zionism, and the Arab World | by Annette Herskovits
Countering the myths spread by pro-Israel ideologues The intricate, sprawling architecture of deception that shapes understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict in America is probably unique in history. For over six decades, the U.S. Congress, successive presidents,...
Brett Murray painting an insult to black South Africans – (SACP) | by Malesela Maleka
Party says it didn't fight for freedom so it could be abused by closet racists Attacks and Insults on President Zuma The SACP is outraged at the insulting, disrespectful, and frankly, disgusting, and sadistic so-called portrait of President Zuma by Brett Murray. This...
The Nobel Price for (SA) Peace
The latest furore about statements made by former apartheid president FW de Klerk has raised one very pertinent point: the political considerations that go into the decisions regarding the award of the Nobel Peace Prize. It also raises again the circumstances in which...
Why the attempted remilitarisation of Africa will fail | by Horace Campbell
Kenya’s foray into Somalia, led from behind by US Africa Command (AFRICOM), ‘represents a heightened threat to peace and reconstruction in Africa, especially East Africa’, argues Horace Campbell. AFRICOM’s attempts at remilitarisation will not solve Africa’s problems,...
The UN & the Future of Palestine | by David Finkel
“YOU CAN’T MAKE this stuff up,” the Prime Minister of Israel lectured the UN General Assembly. Binyamin Netanyahu was referring to the history of Libya under Qaddafi, and Iraq under Saddam Hussein, chairing UN Commissions on Human Rights and Disarmament respectively....
Goldstone’s ‘apartheid’ denial sparks strife | by Ben White
The author of the Gaza War report erroneously argues that Israel does not practice apartheid. After his famous article earlier this year on Gaza, Judge Richard Goldstone has written a new op-ed, this time seeking to defend Israel against charges of apartheid. There...

