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OPINION | The catalytic prospects of hopelessness
Perhaps if we stop cleaving to hope and choose our dissatisfaction; realise the awful truth that the only saviour is individual and collective agency, then a different outcome…
Beware of Big Business bearing gifts
Large corporates whose business has thrived because of inequalities, could be hijacking the anti-racist movement by offering money and not tangible changes
Freed Myanmar journos a symbol of Suu Kyi’s tarnished image
Suu Kyi was once the darling of the foreign media, but her silence over the persecuted Rohingya minority has drawn widespread condemnation
Magical dawning of a new American era
Jonathan Freedland reports on the intensifying excitement as strait-laced Washington DC awaits Obama’s transformation into head of state.
Countdown to Obama presidency
On the eve of his historic inauguration, Barack Obama joined on Monday in honouring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
Hairy encounters of the sexual kind, on video
Lev David on alleged rugby sex tape: There have been a great many adulterers through history who had other things to recommend them.
Hollywood movie legend Charlton Heston dies
Charlton Heston, the chisel-jawed Hollywood icon best remembered for his Oscar-winning performance in the 1959 epic <i>Ben Hur</i>, died on April 5 at his home, his family said.…
US candidates court black vote on King anniversary
Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton sought to shore up support among black voters on Friday in the city where civil rights leader Martin…
US lauds Martin Luther King, but undermines his legacy
The National Civil Rights Museum sits in what was the Lorraine Motel, just beyond the shadows of Memphis’s skyscrapers and the garish neon glow of Beale Street — the main drag…
How to make the system work
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros made his fortune on the markets and is giving a lot of it to Africa. Last week he hosted an Africa Forum in Dakar on whether the continent…
Black mark for racism reform
Another week, another chance to gauge how our fine governing bodies are combating racism, with everyone’s favourite test case still England’s 2004 friendly against Spain in…
Voters flock to polls on Super Tuesday
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton slugged out a neck-and-neck Democratic feud and John McCain sought a chokehold on the Republican race on Super Tuesday, a coast-to-coast White…
Obama ’08? It’s Clinton ’92 all over again
Sixteen years ago, South Carolina and the United States were wowed by a new candidate who seemed less politician than force of nature. He packed halls and school gyms till they…
Hair, nails and politics
At first sight, Salon Fabulous doesn’t quite live up to its name. A trailer in a car park in a neighbourhood of dilapidated houses and rusting cars on the outskirts of Columbia,…
US candidates switch into negative attack mode
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Tuesday heightened the rancour of their Monday debate by attacking each other’s record and style, bringing what has become a mean-spirited and…