Philip Guelpa
New York City, the capital of world finance, where the Wall Street elite is reaping record profits, is also one of the most economically unequal cities in the world. One, if incomplete, measure of this social disparity comes in a new study by the city’s Commission

Panganai Kahuni
MDC formations are on record claiming to be parties of excellence; parties that are not riddled with corruption and any form of undemocratic practises. These are parties that claim to be clean, transparent and accountable. Western governments and the legion of

Knowledge Mushohwe
A peculiar set of statistics from a 2012 study in Germany, shows that an increase in Internet usage by the potential electorate actually reduces voter turnout on actual polling date. The study, reviewed by Oliver Falck alleges that, when broadband Internet technology

BaffourAnkomah
“If a tiny toe is hurting, the whole body bends low to tend it,” says an African proverb. But on this occasion, I beg to differ.
Having been long away from the shores of Her Majesty’s Kingdom, and enjoying the sunshine

Harare’s street painting teams have been very busy in recent weeks, spraying new lines and bars across the patches, through the potholes and even over gravel-filled but unsurfaced trenches.

Saul Landaus

In their 54-year-old effort to bring down Cuba’s revolutionary government and restore obedience in our Caribbean neighbour, US officials have compiled a spectacular record of failure, overshadowed only by the determination to persist in their pursuit of wrong-headed polices, further damaging US interests.

Sifelani Tsiko

THAT the labour movement in Zimbabwe has lost its power, sparkle and membership is not debatable, the question is who or what is responsible and the far-reaching implications this has had in fostering wage inequalities in the country.

Bruce Dixon

On March 15, former General and Africom commander Carter F Ham testified before the House Armed Services Committee that the situation in the West African republic of Mali is, along with that in Nigeria and Somalia, “a direct threat to the national security of the United States.”

John Pilger

ELEVEN miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia’s “premier tourist destination”.
This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked, for me, Robben Island  in South Africa.

Rangu Nyamurandura

WESTERN countries, among them Australia, Canada, the EU, France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, have unilaterally declared themselves “Friends of Zimbabwe”. Surely our most natural response is that our entire indigenous majority must roll over with rib-cracking laughter.

Bill Van Auken

CHARGES by the White House and US secretaries of state and defence last Thursday that Syrian forces used chemical weapons have brought Washington to the brink of another war in the Middle East.