AGAINST THE CURRENT

SIDESHOW BOB AND 'THE HOUSE OF HORRORS' 3

Mayor Sideshow Bob normally never turns down a chance to get himself on television but he did today. Television One News wanted to asked him...

I was sad to learn that Howard Zinn passed away today, aged 87. Zinn is the author of for A People's History of the United States ...

Between 1982 and the mid-1990s real wages fell in New Zealand some 25 percent and have never recovered. Wages today remain a massive 25 per...

Imagine if President George Bush, under cloak of providing 'humanitarian aid', sent some 20,000 military troops to Haiti in order to...

TV3's Mike McRoberts spent a week in Haiti and, like the rest of the New Zealand mainstream media, has resolutely ignored the fact that...

The Government have been peddling 'the recession is over' message for some time now and it must be disappointing for John Key and c...

Although the New Zealand mainstream media continues to pretend otherwise, the American militarisation of Haiti is well under way. And it has...

TV3 like sending newsreader Mike McRoberts off to far-flung 'trouble spots' and this week the 'I've Been Everywhere Man...

The New Zealand media's coverage of the Haiti disaster has been uniformly terrible and has failed to tell the full story about Haiti...

Peter Hallward looks at the not-so-natural factors that have contributed to the disaster in Haiti. Any large city in the world would have su...

The New Zealand mainstream media has been almost celebratory that this country is hitching its wagon firmly to the foreign policy imperativ...

Cameron Slater of the Whale Oil blog says that he is breaking court suppression orders because there is a 'celebrity culture' at w...

Every time the mainstream media wants a opinion on behalf of the Japanese whaling industry they go to Glen Inwood - who, in 2000, was press...

In the end, no matter what the politicians and their allies believe, its people power that will win the world. Two high profile protest act...

Watching the Television One News the other night I couldn't help but notice how much newsreader Miriama Kamo enjoys playing with her b...

You may recall Sideshow Bob grandstanding about the so-called 'House of Horrors' - the Christchurch house where the bodies of two m...

Entirely in the spirit of holiday frivolity here's a few things you can do with Google if you feel like wasting some time. Enter one o...

The Minister of Finance is presently on his summer holidays but his office have released his thoughts on the state on the New Zealand econom...

We're often reminded by our politicians of how important China supposedly is to New Zealand's economic health. It doesn't matte...