We're talking about a revolution and there's one happening right now, of course, in Egypt. The Egyptian people are about to overth...
TIME TO SWITCH OFF THE SOE MODEL
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...
NO MARXISTS ALLOWED
On the KiwiPolitico blog 'Pablo' asks the question 'who are the next generation of NZ left wing thinkers?' On the surfa...
ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR
Is anyone surprised, other than the neoliberal zealots, that more and more New Zealanders are expressing anger and disillusionment at the g...
THE GHOST CITIES OF CHINA
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,...
A SLOW NEWS DAY - LET'S BASH BENEFICIARIES
Despite resolutely failing to address the pressing issue that neoliberalism and the 'free market' have failed to deliver the econ...
BOB HIRES A SPIN DOCTOR
Mayor Sideshow Bob is wasting more Christchurch ratepayers money on himself. Despite claiming that everyone must tighten their belts in th...
WHEN WILL WE SAY 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH'?
Westpac economist Brendan 'O'Donovan , you may recall, was predicting a remarkable economic recovery in December. He told the New Ze...
OUT WITH THE OLD POLITICS
Two years after the meltdown of the global economy, the New Zealand economy remains mired in a quagmire of mass unemployment, growing povert...
SELECTIVE REPORTING FROM FOX NEWS
The Fox News coverage of the shooting of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six other people by a lone gunman, ...
IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL...ON CRACK
Taxing the rich and ending America's military adventures abroad would go a long way to solving America's funding shortages for edu...
MORE EMPTY WORDS FROM GOFF
Phil Goff's Labour Party are offering no alternative to the National-led Government's austerity policies. Of course we've known ...
OUT WITH THE OLD POLITICS
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 ...