Category Archives: International

Serge Halimi, The left’s unsung story (Le Monde diplomatic)

http://mondediplo.com/2014/11/01left

Ilan Pappe (Israeli Professor) Israel has chosen to be a racist state with US support

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/28/professor_ilan_pappe_israel_has_chosen

Video of Graca Machel’s talk on identities interrogating Samora Machel’s statement ‘for the nation to live, the tribe must die’

http://www.mistra.org.za/SitePages/Video.aspx?VideoID=20

Mark Weisbrot, The story of Venezuelas protests

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/30/the-story-of-venezuelas-protests/

Raymond Suttner, video interview on 20 years of democracy (Polity), part one

Mark Weisbrot, Truth about Venezuela, revolt of the well off not terror campaign

https://portside.org/2014-03-22/truth-about-venezuela-revolt-well-not-terror-campaign

Ram Guha’s withering critique of Arundhati Roy’s celebrity activism (2000)

Le Monde diplomatique on Ukrainian uprising

http://mondediplo.com/2014/03/02ukraine

Extreme weather and extreme energy usage are connected

https://portside.org/2014-02-24/577-billion-ways-extreme-weather-and-extreme-energy-are-connected

General council of the bar slams government for silence over homophobic steps on the continent

http://mg.co.za/article/2014-01-28-govt-slammed-for-silence-on-anti-gay-legislation

Disasters set to rise in southern African region

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2014/01/22/disasters-set-to-rise-in-southern-africa

Esperanda Spalding, We are America. Guantanamo Bay protest

http://thejazzline.com/news/2013/11/esperanza-spalding-we-are-america-guantanamo-bay-protest/

Portia Siegelbaum, Cuban Economic reforms replace muddy field wholesale market

https://portside.org/2013-12-26/cuban-economic-reforms-replace-muddy-field-wholesale-market

Pallo Jordan pays tribute to Nelson Mandela

http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/negotiator-who-outmanoeuvred-pw-1.1618656#.UqSWPqXH1SU

Le Monde diplomatique on Louisiana’s profitable prisons

http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/11usprison

Le Monde diplomatique on implications of US/ Iran’s thaw in relations

http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/01iran

US continued penalisation of Cuba under Obama

http://portside.org/2013-11-09/keeping-us-dark-about-latin-america

US drone attacks met with little world concern

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/31/these_drones_attack_us_and_the

International relations appear indifferent to detention of Tokyo

Department of International Relations and Cooperation do not seem very worried about Tokyo Sexwale’s detention at JFK airport. Continue reading →

US use of drones as preferred mode of attack, contravenes international law

http://mg.co.za/article/2013-10-25-drones-will-return-to-bite-obama-in-the-us