Donald Trump poses a serious threat to global stability and, according to Jeff Rudin, must be stopped before it is too late.
Why Trump is more dangerous than just being a tyrant
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The other catastrophe: genocide and famine in Sudan
Two years have passed since the war broke out in Sudan between the two sides of the military regime that the country inherited from the infamous Omar al-Bashir.
Today’s hidden costs of critical minerals mining in DRC recalls Dag Hammarskjöld’s death in 1961
Dag Hammarskjöld’s fatal dedication to supporting Congolese sovereignty in the face of resistance from those threatened by the loss of control over the region’s resources finds a troubling parallel in the present-day conflicts in the eastern DRC.
West African coups: just changing masters
Democracy is criticised as an externally imposed and unsuitable system for African traditions or as ineffective.
GOING BEYOND FAILED LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM
COLONIALISM, APARTHEID AND neoliberalism remain foundational in shaping the inherited dualistic, unequal and racially divided land and agrarian structure. And we still have that same structure some 29 years into South Africa’s democratic dispensation. At the heart of...
The Crises of Civilisation – Towards a Post-Carbon Economy
The Crises of Civilisation - Towards a Post-Carbon Economy18 – 20 October 2010Heia Safari Ranch, Johannesburg The Cape Town-based Alternate Information and Development Centre (AIDC), together with the Latin American-based Peoples Dialogue will be hosting a Crisis of...
The Energy Crisis: Nuking Into the Future
By Victor Munnik Nuke ambitions riding highGrabbing the opportunity of the climate change crisis, the nuclear industry has presented itself as a carbon-free energy source. There are a number of arguments against this: first, there is not enough uranium on the planet...
Ten Key Questions on Climate Change
Climate change is a political and scientific conundrum. From the denialism of the George Bush era to the neo-liberal imperatives of carbon trading, the subject is confusing, and an activist agenda is sometimes a navigational minefield. David Fig helps Amandla! to...
Robert Fisk: Nine Years, Two Wars, Hundreds of Thousands Dead – and Nothing Learnt
Did 9/11 make us all mad? Our memorial to the innocents who died nine years ago has been a holocaust of fire and blood . . .Saturday, 11 September 2010Did 9/11 make us all go mad? How fitting, in a weird, crazed way, that the apotheosis of that firestorm nine years...