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David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), Director of The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and author of numerous books. He has been teaching Karl Marx's Capital for nearly 40 years.
Harvey told the audience outside the London Stock Exchange on November 12, 2012, "The problem, I try to say to people…is that you cannot solve the problem of global poverty without going after the accumulation of global wealth. And until you all leave...
As people in Palestine continue to face economic uncertainty and high unemployment, one Palestinian has decided to help by tackling high energy prices.
Entrepreneur Khalid Al Sabawi decided to dig deep down, literally, for solutions. He realized that the most efficient, cost efficient and environmentally friendly answer would be to harness geothermal energy found beneath the ground.
Imran Garda of Al Jazeera's "The Stream" talks to Al Sabawi about establishing his green...
Mandisi Majavu -
Almost two decades into post-apartheid South Africa many black academics still feel that the “white networks that have de facto run academic decision making” are derailing the transformation agenda. This is according to the Charter for Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), a report commissioned by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, that was published in June this year.
In many respects, the CHSS echoes the 2008 Report of the Ministerial Committee on...
Richard Pithouse -
Julius Malema, unlovely as he is, is a symptom, a morbid symptom to be sure, of the crisis that we face. Any assumption that his effective expulsion from the ANC allows us to continue with business as usual will guarantee the emergence of more symptoms, different but equally morbid.
The real roots of our crisis lie in the fact that the post-apartheid deal has not only allowed elites to flourish while the people at the bottom of society have been pushed further into desperation but...
At 01h00 on 15 November, the Occupy Wall Street encampment was dismantled in a violent raid by the police. The Democracy Now team rushed down to Zuccotti Park in the middle of the night to report on the police crackdown. They were there until the early hours of the morning, witnessing the arrests in the streets in Lower Manhattan, the dismantling of the encampment — and the hauling away of protesters’ belongings.
The raid comes just two days before, November 17, which marks the...
Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen -
Mzansi 2030: The clarion call within the ruling party congress is “Masupatsela.” The report from the secretariat is depressing. It tells us that once upon a time, an astute minister with a talented bunch of advisors and bureaucrats dreamed of a South Africa in which unemployment was 6%, no one lived in poverty and the poorest 40% were getting a greater share of total income. Unfortunately, we are not living happily ever after, in terms of its development indicators; South Africa...
