Rather than proposing to tinker with a failed system, why isn't the Green Party proposing the establishment of publicly-owned low cost g...
CHRISTOPHER LUXON IS JUST A SYMPTOM OF A MUCH DEEPER PROBLEM
New Zealand's problems lie deeper than Christopher Luxon's habit of producing politically embarrassing gaffes. THE DISCONTENT simm...
WINSTON PETERS: SANCTIONS FOR RUSSIA, BUT A FREE PASS FOR ISRAEL
This week the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced a new series of sanctions against Russia. But Winston Peters remains silent about Israel...
"DON'T VOTE - IT ONLY ENCOURAGES THEM"
The latest unemployment figures have again exposed the failure of neoliberalism, yet no alternative is being offered by Labour and support...
WINSTON PETERS: GENOCIDE DENIER
Winston Peters racist rant against a Chinese-born Green MP has provided him with the headlines he craves. But little media attention has foc...
'FOR ALL OF US': AN ELECTION SLOGAN DRAINED OF POLITICAL CONTENT
The Green Party has kicked class politics to the kerb. It wants to be the party of 'all of us'. It is a slogan that means nothing b...
THE GREEN PARTY HAS SUBORDINATED ITSELF TO LABOUR, AND COULD PAY A HIGH PRICE FOR IT
This weekend the Green Party is holding its Annual General Meeting in Auckland. It comes at a time when a new poll has the Green's pol...
SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE
A new report from the independent Climate Change Commission says that emission reductions have stalled since the National-led government t...
THE WORLD WANTS SPAIN TO WIN THE WORLD CUP
The World Cup Final will be about more than football, and Gaza is the reason. THE WORLD Cup Final will be played on a football pitch, but ...
NEW ZEALAND'S ECONOMIC CRISIS IS ALSO A POLITICAL CRISIS
The majority of New Zealanders say that the country is on the wrong path, and they want real change. So why aren't any of our parliament...
THE FUTURE THAT SLEEPING DOGS PREDICTED HAS NOT ARRIVED. YET.
Sam Neill's first feature film was Sleeping Dog s, released in 1977. It predicted a near-future New Zealand where a totalitarian gov...
THE ZIONIST POLITICS OF BRIAN TAMAKI
Missing in the mainstream media commentary about Brian Tamaki is any mention of his Zionist beliefs and the support he has received from the...
THE GOVERNMENT'S WAR ON THE POOR
The Government is engaged in a war against the poor, pandering to prejudices that they are living the high life on a benefit that barely all...
THE LEFT IS ON THE MOVE, BUT NOT IN NEW ZEALAND
Claire Valdez New Zealand politics is stuck in the quagmire of a suffocating centrism. But it doesn't have to be this way. The political...
CUBA AFTER CASTRO
DIRECTED BY Abby Martin and Matt Belen, Cuba After Castro delivers the definitive portrait of Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuba's first leader ...
RE JACINDA ARDERN AND PHILANTHROPY
A READER has drawn it to my attention that the evidence is uncertain, at best, that former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made a personal don...
LABOUR REJECTS THE GREEN' PARTY'S TAX POLICY. WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE THE GREEN'S?
' Do we want to keep tinkering, or do we want a brand new deal? Are we willing to reset the rules?... It's not going to happen overn...
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