AGAINST THE CURRENT

WHO CONTROLS THE WORLD'S FINANCE MARKETS?

Who controls the world's finance markets? According a new study of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries, the world's finances ...

As I said in my post 'Strange Days' New Zealand mainstream politics is characterised by a consensus about neoliberalism. Despite it...

A lot of us are doing it hard in these troubled economic times - but not Air New Zealand chief executive Rob Fyfe. His salary package incre...

Tim Sisarich with Focus on the Family founder, Dr James Dobson. There's been some discussion on various blogs about the American fundame...

We live in strange days. Indeed these are very strange days for socialists and for all those who still believe there is a world to win. New...

The 186 Lane Walker Rudkin workers made redundant in May was always going to be the first 'wave' of redundancies - as this blog said...

It's somewhat ironic that while many of Rupert Murdoch's media outlets have been breathlessly reporting on the so-called new 'ec...

Just a quick message. Because of problems at my previous webmail service, I've now changed over to Yahoo. My new address is sjcowan@yaho...

This isn't a post about Christchurch Mayor Sideshow Bob but it is a post about one of his loyal lieutenants, Councillor Barry Corbett. ...

According to big-spending Labour MP Chris Carter he's being victimised by the media because he's gay! Said the jetsetting former Lab...

According to Wikipedia , TV3's the Big Nite In was New Zealand's tenth Telethon. The hey day of Telethon was in the late 70s and t...

OK, I saw a little of Q+A this morning but only because I was searching around for something more important - namely coverage of West Bromi...

Rush hour in Dipton. Although the Minister of Finance has, after a long howl of public outrage, paid back half of the money he has receive...

'I think in terms of the work expenses we're talking about, where people seek reimbursement for items to do with doing their job on ...

The murky business affairs of embattled property developer Dave Henderson have become a little clearer over the past 48 hours. Hendo has eff...

While the media focus is presently on the money that MP's have been misusing for 'accommodation' expenses - with the Minister of...

There have been interesting developments at South of Lichfield (SOL), the supposed 'jewel' in the disintegrating property 'empir...

A few months ago TVNZ publicist Andi Brotherston started sending me transcripts for TVNZ's very poor Sunday morning 'current affai...

Just a day or so ago we learned that jolly Roger Douglas has been holidaying around the globe with his wife, courtesy of the taxpayer. Dougl...