In the age of climate change and a deepening environmental crisis, the political status quo has no answer to the devastating consequences o...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
After promising both 'transformation' and 'change', the Labour Government has failed to deliver. What would Mike Moore think...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
BANNING BASSETT
Historian Michael Bassett finds himself being purged by NZME for a newspaper column described as 'racist' by his political opponent...
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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