Africa

South Africa: More reviled for its “fight against Aids” than the US is for its “war on terror”?

Monday, August 21, 2006 at 11:03 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

The plaintive theme of the 16th International AIDS Conference concerned the increasing incidence of HIV infections amongst women. Indeed, speaker after speaker exhorted women – through commiseration, lamentations and admonitions – to assert greater control over their (sex) lives by zealously protecting themselves against contracting the virus. And they instructed women to prevent this, in… Read more.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Namibia Controlling Immigration

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 10:38 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Celebrities enjoy a contrived relationship with the paparazzi. The relationship Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt orchestrate with the paparazzi illustrates this in spades. Jolie and Pitt as immigration officers But imagine a world so obsessed with and deferential to celebrities that they can get governments to do this: Jolie and Pitt pressured Namibian authorities … to hand over… Read more.

Happy Birthday, FW de Klerk? Yes, For He’s (Now) a Jolly Good Fellow!

Monday, April 3, 2006 at 9:45 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

FW de Klerk, Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk both won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. The Nobel Committee honored them “for their work in the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.” Celebrated by both Blacks and Whites Recently, VIPs of all races gathered to celebrate FW… Read more.

Joseph Kony Makes Idi Amin Look Like an Altar Boy

Monday, March 27, 2006 at 12:07 PM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Kony is Amin’s demon spawn Joseph Kony is a former altar boy. But it’s a testament to his venality that his name now symbolizes pure evil. That’s because he’s unleashing a reign of terror not seen on the African continent since the despotic rule of Idi Amin. Except that Amin had a noble cause. He wanted to… Read more.

Help! Ethnic Cleansing and Starvation Persist in Africa

Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 11:19 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

For years now, Arab militiamen have slowly starved and repeatedly raped the African women of Darfur as part of their cruel and inhumane campaign of ethnic cleansing More than a year ago, then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that the systematic raping, pillaging and killing of black Africans in Sudan’s Darfur region constitute… Read more.

Happy Birthday Nelson (Madiba) Mandela!

Monday, July 18, 2005 at 5:07 PM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Today, South Africans celebrated Nelson Mandela’s 87th birthday. They lit a special torch in his Apartheid prison cell as part of a new nationwide drive to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. The prison is located on Robben Island, off Cape Town. Mandela spent almost two decades of his life there as punishment for seeking to end… Read more.