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Secret alliance: Israel and apartheid South Africa’s nuclear collaboration
With both countries intent on keeping in check the ‘barbarians at the gate’, South Africa used its uranium reserves and Israeli technical support to develop its nuclear programme
Time for a Marshall Plan for South Africa
The conflation of economic, governance and health crises in the form of the recent unrest shows up the need for party-neutral reforms
Raila Odinga: The US and Europe cannot abandon their leadership roles
Today, the whole world stands where Europe was in 1945. Europe recovered then thanks to massive international assistance. That same attitude of cooperation and solidarity is…
Clinton warned: Win decisively or it’s over
Barack Obama on Monday effectively conceded he would not win Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, but hinted he expected to do well enough to cast doubt on Hillary…
Ted Kennedy passes JFK mantle on to Obama
It was as close as it gets to a coronation. In front of a rapturous, chanting crowd, Senator Ted Kennedy on Monday enfolded Barack Obama into a hug, and in that instant drew a…
FBI chief Hoover planned to jail 12 000
It all sounds familiar. A newly proclaimed war in a far-off land, the suspension of habeas corpus, and mass arrests of ”potentially dangerous” individuals to protect the nation…
A red lesson from Italy
Tear gas billowed down the street every day as rioters battled police. Enraged protesters believed that even the Communist Party had turned its back on them. One evening, amid…