Enver Motala is an associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg and of the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at the Nelson Mandela University.
Between 2013 and 2016, Ebola claimed more than 11,000 lives in West Africa. Beginning in 2018, another two-year wave of the devastating disease caused a further 2,000 deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These days, even when Ebola itself isn’t spreading, false conspiracy theories about it are.
People have been speculating about the British royal family for centuries. You decide which conjectures might be true.
The Cold War’s greatest Road Runner and Coyote shit show.
Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia — not to mention the man behind the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — has a host of American celebrity friends.
How a fraudulent 1998 study launched a movement.
Inquiry into the origin of COVID-19 has been as political as it has been scientific.
The borders of Ukraine are no more arbitrary than those of Italy or Germany. It’s been more than three decades since the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was assassinated outside a Stockholm cinema, and police have never found the killer.
All we know for sure is where he isn’t.
The shadowy clubs that secretly control the world.
Where the public stands on the wilder questions of our time.
The best of the MSNBC star’s Russiagate rants.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave …
Conspiracy theories about the Vatican are as old as the Catholic Church itself. Here are some recent ones.
In the 1980s, Christian groups alleged that countless popular songs contained Satanic messages that could only be heard when played backward. The truth is more mundane.
Television shows across the country are going dark because their writers have walked off the job. The strikers say they had no choice but to walk, as new technology and the squeeze from executives have put their very livelihood in serious danger.
Socialists and progressives won a few key demands in the New York state budget battles. But overall, Gov. Kathy Hochul rammed through an awful budget that will make life much worse for the state of New York’s working class.
