Nelson Mandela

Over 200 Celebrities Push Petition Urging Israel to Release Terror Leader Serving 5 Life Terms — ‘Sanitizing a Serial Killer’

Over 200 Hollywood stars and cultural figures have signed a new petition urging Israel to free a convicted Palestinian terror chief serving five life sentences for Second Intifada murders, prompting warnings they are “sanitizing the crimes of a serial killer” even as they hail him as a “powerful symbol of unity” and the “Palestinian Nelson Mandela.”

Hand cuffed and flashing the 'V'-sign, Marwan Barghuti the leader of Yasser Araf

Hayward — Obama in South Africa: 9/11, Rise of Putin Were ‘Backlash’ Against Globalization

Former President Barack Obama told an audience at a Nelson Mandela Foundation event in South Africa Tuesday marking the 100th anniversary of Mandela’s birth that income inequality and other disruptions caused by a “backlash” against globalization and liberalization were factors in the 9/11 attacks, the resurgence of populism, Chinese aggression, and the rise of President Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama, left, delivers his speech at the 16th Annual Nelson Ma

Former South Africa President Denounces His Own Party as Corrupt

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki declared last week that his own party, the African National Congress (ANC), “has become so corrupted that … unprincipled access to political power and the related corrupt self-enrichment has in fact become the norm within the organisation.”

Thabo Mbeki (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP / Getty)