South Africa

By Remote Writer for the Saker Blog Whose Apartheid is/was the worst? This analysis will focus on the severity of South Africa’s Apartheid and will touch on other forms of

While the restriction on large gatherings is welcome, vaccines are needed urgently to stem the bleeding of the South African economy.
The post South Africa moves to Level 2 lockdown first appeared on The BRICS Post.

[Prefatory Note: This opinion piece was published in Middle East Eye on May 18,2021, and republished in Il Manifesto  and The Wire under different titles. It attempts to contextualize the current violence directed against Gaza in earlier Israeli provocations. It also takes note of Israel’s reliance on excessive force in its attack upon an essentially […]

Tiger Tateishi (Japan), Samurai, the Watcher (Koya no Yojinbo), 1965. Ugliness defines the mood of state violence from Cali (Colombia) to Durban (South Africa), each context different and the depth of the violence particular to the location. Images of security forces cracking down on people trying to express their political rights have become commonplace. It […]
The post If I Fall in the Struggle, Take My Place first appeared on Dissident Voice.

By Sebastian Rushworth, M.D. | May 9, 2021 Back in January I wrote an article about four randomized controlled trials of ivermectin as a treatment for covid-19 that had at that time released their results to the public. Each of those four trials had promising results, but each was also too small individually to show any meaningful […]

A short video taken by a family as they picnicked in the West Bank this month may be the best field guide yet to Israel’s complex apartheid system of state-sponsored Jewish supremacy. In the clip posted to Facebook, armed Jewish settlers arrive unexpectedly to break up the picnic of a Palestinian family – including grandparents […]
The post Picnic Video Exposes Both Faces of Israeli Apartheid first appeared on Dissident Voice.

Rosemary Frei, via her website According to what we hear from officials and the mainstream media, the new variants are the most dangerous and unpredictable beings since Osama bin Laden. Everyone needs to stay safe from these invisible but murderously mighty microbes by shunning contact with the unwashed, unmasked and unvaccinated. But is that drastic …

Claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate, Andrew Yang, in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly, ‘The Forward’, point to the prevailing ignorance that continues to dominate the US discourse on Palestine and Israel. Yang, a former Democratic Presidential candidate, is vying for the Jewish vote in New York City. According to […]

The summit focused on four areas – Covid response, economic development, energy security and water resilience.
The post South Africa’s Democratic Alliance Innovation Summit highlights progress first appeared on The BRICS Post.

Recovery is expected to continue albeit at a much slower pace, experts say.
The post Despite Q3 bounce, South African economy in contraction first appeared on The BRICS Post.