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A Western Financial Whip Was Lifted From South Africa’s Back – But Now We Need Another

The October 24 decision by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to end the ‘grey list’ stigmatization against the banking systems of...

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Patrick Bond

Palestine Solidarity Discussions in Johannesburg Stress Ongoing Protest 

Will the Trump-Netanyahu deal at least pause the mass killing of Gazans? Maybe, and Gazans have every right to celebrate. But we have repeatedly...

14.10.2025 10

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Patrick Bond

As BRICS Meet to Fight Trump Tariffs, is It Time for Multi-Polar or Anti-Polar Politics?

On September 8, at an emergency online meeting called by Lula to discuss trade, the BRICS leaders will be put to a serious test: in the face of...

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Real and Fake Antidotes to Trump’s Latest tariffs, Seen From South Africa

U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make...

15.07.2025 10

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BRICS nations and Israel: Hype, Hope and Helplessness

The BRICS Bank actually sanctioned its 20% member Moscow because of the credit rating agencies in New York… I think the reparations we should be...

13.05.2025 10

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Patrick Bond

Trump’s Tariffs Seen from Contradictory Angles

Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and...

08.04.2025 10

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U.S. Rulers Versus South African Rulers – Versus Both Their Peoples and Ecologies

Cyril Ramaphosa vainly hopes Trump’s threats – on racial redress, woke G20 management and calling out Israel’s genocide – will be retracted...

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From South Africa To Syria, Rising Perils For Palestine Solidarity – OpEd

The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being...

12.12.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Patrick Bond

From South Africa to Syria, Rising Perils for Palestine Solidarity

The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being...

11.12.2024 10

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Patrick Bond

Rising Dangers of Imperial and Sub-Imperial Partnering

Untenable G7/BRICS /G20 assimilations within rapacious global capitalism Following the Johannesburg BRICS summit in August 2023, the new ‘BRICS ’ –...

20.10.2024 8

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“The Blessing” for Genocide: Nearly all BRICS+ Regimes Nurture Israel, Economically

The Biden-Harris genocide-facilitation team is celebrating the latest atrocities from Gaza to the West Bank to Lebanon, as is to be expected from...

03.10.2024 2

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Patrick Bond