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BEYOND BARBARISM : TOWARDS ECOSOCIALISM

BEYOND BARBARISM : TOWARDS ECOSOCIALISM

In the age of climate change and a deepening environmental crisis, the political status quo has no answer to the devastating consequences o...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, April 22, 2021 0 comments
Labels: climate change, ecosocialism
JAMES SHAW : THE CORPORATE-FRIENDLY CLIMATE CHANGE MINISTER WE DON'T NEED

JAMES SHAW : THE CORPORATE-FRIENDLY CLIMATE CHANGE MINISTER WE DON'T NEED

Last week Climate Change Minister James Shaw admitted that the Government had failed to meet the expectations of Jacinda Ardern's 2017 e...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 0 comments
Labels: capitalism, climate change, james shaw
US RETREATS FROM AFGHANISTAN : THE TRUTH BEHIND THE EMPIRE'S DEFEAT

US RETREATS FROM AFGHANISTAN : THE TRUTH BEHIND THE EMPIRE'S DEFEAT

ABBY MARTIN  explores what's missing from coverage of Biden's announcement of the Afghanistan withdrawal.  WATCH our two new  docum...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 0 comments
Labels: abby martin, the empire files
ALTERNATIVE AOTEAROA : MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

ALTERNATIVE AOTEAROA : MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

Alternative Aotearoa recognised that 'business as usual has failed most of us' but, unfortunately, its definition of 'business a...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Sunday, April 18, 2021 0 comments
Labels: alternative aotearoa, neoliberalism
THE EMPIRE FILES : UGANDA'S US-BACKED REGIME SERVING US IMPERIALISM

THE EMPIRE FILES : UGANDA'S US-BACKED REGIME SERVING US IMPERIALISM

IN THIS short documentary Abby Martin and The Empire Files take a look at Uganda's US-backed dictatorship, the country's freedom s...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Monday, April 12, 2021 0 comments
Labels: abby martin, the empire files
THE DICTATORSHIP OF VIRTUE AND HOW TO END IT

THE DICTATORSHIP OF VIRTUE AND HOW TO END IT

Catherine Liu's new book attacks a liberal class that has set itself up as as cultural and moral arbiters and that prioritises identity ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Sunday, April 11, 2021 0 comments
Labels: identity politics, neoliberalism
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON : SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON : SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE

  Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel says that solving the climate crisis is incompatible with a defence of our present economic system. K...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Saturday, April 10, 2021 0 comments
Labels: books, climate change, kim stanley robinson
MATT MCCARTEN : HAND-WRINGING ABOUT HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IS ALL BUNK

MATT MCCARTEN : HAND-WRINGING ABOUT HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IS ALL BUNK

Former Labour Party chief of staff Matt McCarten has described the Labour Government's recent housing policy announcements as 'an em...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Wednesday, April 07, 2021 0 comments
Labels: housing, neoliberalism
GREAT EXPECTATIONS

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

After promising both 'transformation' and 'change', the Labour Government has failed to deliver. What would Mike Moore think...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, April 01, 2021 1 comments
Labels: jacinda ardern, neoliberalism
MARKET MADNESS AND NON SOLUTIONS TO THE HOUSING CRISIS

MARKET MADNESS AND NON SOLUTIONS TO THE HOUSING CRISIS

Missing in the current mainstream debate about the housing crisis are any proposals for non-market housing solutions. On RNZ, host Katherin...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Monday, March 29, 2021 0 comments
Labels: housing, neoliberalism
MILCK : IF I RULED THE WORLD

MILCK : IF I RULED THE WORLD

CONNIE K LIM, professionally known as MILCK, is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter. In 2017 MILCK became one of the leading voices of t...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 0 comments
Labels: MILCK, music
HOUSING : LABOUR TINKERS WITH A FAILED SYSTEM

HOUSING : LABOUR TINKERS WITH A FAILED SYSTEM

The disjuncture between what is good for profits and what is good for people has starkly between on display in the debate surrounding the ho...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 0 comments
Labels: housing, jacinda ardern
THE TROUBLE WITH MARAMA

THE TROUBLE WITH MARAMA

Locked into a political agreement with Labour, the Green's response to the housing crisis has been less than impressive. Green co-leader...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Saturday, March 20, 2021 0 comments
Labels: green party, housing, marama davidson
THE BLOATED CORPORATE MONSTER THAT IS THE AMERICA'S CUP

THE BLOATED CORPORATE MONSTER THAT IS THE AMERICA'S CUP

The America's Cup is now mercifully over - for now. Despite pleading poverty on social spending, the Labour Government has every intenti...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, March 18, 2021 0 comments
Labels: media, sport, willie jackson
BEHIND NEW ZEALAND'S '100% PURE' IMAGE LIES A DIRTY TRUTH

BEHIND NEW ZEALAND'S '100% PURE' IMAGE LIES A DIRTY TRUTH

This Foreign Correspondent report, broadcast in Australia last night, observes that 'polluted by intensive diary farming', New Ze...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Wednesday, March 17, 2021 0 comments
Labels: environment, farming
WHO HOLDS OUR MOTHERS?

WHO HOLDS OUR MOTHERS?

THIS POWERFUL VIDEO has attracted a lot of coverage, and has also been picked up by the international media. Produced by Moonshine Films in...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Monday, March 15, 2021 0 comments
Labels: media, mothers matter, women's rights
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2021 : A CORPORATE TALKFEST

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2021 : A CORPORATE TALKFEST

It was International Women's Day on Monday. Women, as a group, have been doing it hard during the pandemic but there was little acknowle...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Saturday, March 13, 2021 0 comments
Labels: international women's day
THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE

THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has no comment to make... COMMENTATOR Bryce Edwards, writing in the Guardian in December 2019  observed that ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Tuesday, March 09, 2021 0 comments
Labels: jacinda ardern, media, mike hosking
ROSA 150

ROSA 150

“Marxism does not consist of a dozen persons who have granted each other the right to be the ‘experts’, before whom the masses are supposed ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Sunday, March 07, 2021 0 comments
Labels: marxism, rosa luxemburg
BANNING BASSETT

BANNING BASSETT

Historian Michael Bassett  finds himself being purged by NZME for a newspaper column described as 'racist' by his political opponent...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Friday, March 05, 2021 1 comments
Labels: free speech, media, michael bassett, neoliberalism
THE WOKE MADNESS OF MARAMA DAVIDSON

THE WOKE MADNESS OF MARAMA DAVIDSON

A few days after Vodafone CEO Jason Paris announced to staff, via email, that 200 workers will be losing their jobs, Green co-leader Marama ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Wednesday, March 03, 2021 0 comments
Labels: green party, marama davidson
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