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Patrick Bond, political economist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, and Director of the Centre for Social Change, discusses the…
The Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) summit in Johannesburg concluded on August 24 after a major disappointment: the long-overdue challenge to U.S. dollar hegemony…
Before the August 22-24 summit in Johannesburg raised expectations for a new counterbalancing force in global politics ā and struck fear into…
The potential new leader of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ā the world bodyās Nobel Prize-winning scientific network…
Has the South African government unequivocally sided with Russia, as witnessed not just in Februaryās joint military exercises (alongside China) but also…
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In 1965, Ho Chi MinhĀ describedĀ U.S. President Lyndon Johnsonās half-baked $1 billion gift to the Vietnamese ā and simultaneous threat of endless bombing…
What kind of monetary carrot is needed to help high-polluting middle-income countries to rapidly decarbonize? Mainly because of a South African pilot…
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