AGAINST THE CURRENT

THE LUNACY OF MITCH HARRIS

We're talking about a revolution and there's one happening right now, of course, in Egypt. The Egyptian people are about to overth...

Like probably most other electricity consumers, I've been with a number of power companies over the years. I have done as both Labour a...

On the KiwiPolitico blog 'Pablo' asks the question 'who are the next generation of NZ left wing thinkers?' On the surfa...

Is anyone surprised, other than the neoliberal zealots, that more and more New Zealanders are expressing anger and disillusionment at the g...

Above is a photo of the Chinese city of Ordos Shi under construction. The city has been completed and is almost entirely empty. The streets,...

Despite resolutely failing to address the pressing issue that neoliberalism and the 'free market' have failed to deliver the econ...

Mayor Sideshow Bob is wasting more Christchurch ratepayers money on himself. Despite claiming that everyone must tighten their belts in th...

Westpac economist Brendan 'O'Donovan , you may recall, was predicting a remarkable economic recovery in December. He told the New Ze...

Two years after the meltdown of the global economy, the New Zealand economy remains mired in a quagmire of mass unemployment, growing povert...

The Fox News coverage of the shooting of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six other people by a lone gunman, ...

Taxing the rich and ending America's military adventures abroad would go a long way to solving America's funding shortages for edu...

Phil Goff's Labour Party are offering no alternative to the National-led Government's austerity policies. Of course we've known ...

There has been an interesting debate going on within the British left which I have been following over the past three weeks or so. It was ...