Comment & analysis

A recent Globe and Mail article (reprinted on Rabble.ca) by Gerald Caplan detailing Canadian relations with Uganda made be mad. Why?

When I visited China in November 1958 as the guest of the Chinese Writers Union, China was just embarking on its huge programme of industrialisation.

Once upon a time, anti-colonial movements were fighting for human rights against oppression and injustice. Representatives of these agencies claimed a moral high ground.

According to a statement issued by the Presidency yesterday, the theme of this year’s Day of Reconciliation celebrations will be: “Bridging the Divide: Building a Common South African Nationhood towards a National Developmental State.” It goes on to claim the day “promotes and is entrenched on co

If most of the delegates to COP 21 were women, they might come to an obvious conclusion about how to slow climate change. Unfortunately, with mainly men making the decisions, this conclusion may escape the scientists and politicians.

The time has come for direct challenges on the issue of Walter Rodney's unnatural death which international as well as Guyanese police experts determined from material found at the crime scene was caused by an electronically triggered device.

In less than one year (November 2016), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is scheduled to hold presidential and legislative elections.

INTRODUCTION

At around 0700 local time in Bamako, Mali, on Friday, 20 November 2015, ten armed men, some driving in a black Toyota 4 x 4 SUV, entered Bamako's poshest hotel, the Radisson Blu.

Two weeks ago police shot and killed an individual at Pacific Wildcat Resources tantalum mine in central Mozambique. The incident received some attention in Canada because community members responded by seizing the Vancouver-based company’s mine site and setting some equipment ablaze.