Israeli-Imposed Travel Restrictions Force Palestinians to Lose Fulbright Scholarships
Category: human rights
On one metric, at least, Israel appears worse that apartheid South Africa.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 11:30 AM • 13 Comments •
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US to Consider No Longer Calling Mandela, ANC "Terrorists"
Category: Africa
You can file this one under "should have been done about twenty years ago." From the Mail & Guardian: Lawmakers on Tuesday debated legislation to remove former South African president Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) from an...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:57 AM • 1 Comments •
South African Unions Prevent the Delivery of Arms to Unstable Zimbabwe
Category: Africa
Now that the Chinese ship An Yue Jiang--which was delivering arms from China to Zimbabwe--has been turned away for good, there are two significant aspects of this story upon which we should reflect. The first is that the true heroes...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:10 PM • 0 Comments •
HIV Denialism in South Africa: a Lesson in Complexity
Category: HIV/AIDS
A primer on the HIV denialism of Thabo Mbeki and his government.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:39 AM • 35 Comments •
