When sweeping change is required to fight climate change, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern this week will have little to offer but more of the...
CLIMATE EMERGENCY DECLARATION : GREENWASHING THE STATUS QUO
Next week the Labour Government will introduce a climate emergency declaration to Parliament. But as it isn't backed by the appropriate...
LET'S REMEMBER DIEGO MARADONA'S SUPPORT FOR LATIN AMERICAN SOCIALISM
While the corporate media are remembering Diego Maradona's footballing brilliance, not a lot is being said about his socialist politics...
ARE JACINDA ARDERN SUPPORTERS JUST LIKE DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS?
In their slavish devotion to Jacinda Ardern, Labour supporters resemble the supporters of Donald Trump. ECONOMIST SUSAN St James has asked ...
HOW DO YOU LIKE IT SO FAR?
As house prices and rents soar into the stratosphere and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern rejects widespread community calls for an increase i...
WITH TRUMP GONE, WHAT DOES THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ACTUALLY STAND FOR?
THE ELECTION is over (isn’t it?!?!?) and we barely escaped Trump with our lives. But now the Democrats must face a reckoning. So who shou...
THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT : DEFEATING THE ODDS
The Queen's Gambit has captured the public imagination in the way few television dramas usually do... AT FIRST GLANCE a television dr...
FIRST IMPRESSIONS CAN BE DECEIVING
The Green Party has this past week publicly disagreed with the Labour Government's approach to both housing and welfare. While this mig...
THIS CHRISTMAS, JACINDA ARDERN WILL BE PLAYING SCROOGE
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has rejected widespread calls to alleviate the growing level of poverty and desperation by increasing core w...
THE BLUE MIRAGE : IT WAS ALL AOC'S FAULT
Joe Biden's presidential victory has deflected attention from the fact that the Democratic Party under-performed. At a time of a pandem...
PUBLIC BOOK BURNINGS, ANYONE?
Author and columnist Olivia Pierson finds her book being banned by an online retailer, merely for expressing views that some people didn...
CENTRISM KILLS
Regardless of the final result, the Democratic Party establishment have messed up yet another presidential campaign. Its cautiously centr...
NEWSBROKE POST-ELECTION SPECIAL WITH FRANCESCA FIORENTINI
Join Francesca Fiorentini for Newsbroke's Live Post-Election Show. Guests include: * Comedy Central’s Anthony Atamanuik * The Young T...
IF TRUMP WINS, SHOULD WE SECEDE?
Can America secede its way to a more perfect union? Or are all 50 states simply stuck with each other? For decades, people on both sides of...
THE BAUBLES OF OFFICE
In return for remaining loyal to the Labour Government, co-leaders James Shaw and Marama Davidson have been rewarded with some token jobs. ...
DUMP TRUMP, THEN BATTLE BIDEN
The threat of Donald Trump getting re-elected will see much of the American left voting for the centrist Joe Biden. The rallying call is ...
THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION : ONE WEEK TO GO
THERE'S JUST A few days to go to the Presidential election. The polls show that Democratic Party challenger Joe Biden continues to hol...
THE TIES THAT BIND
Union organiser Ben Peterson thinks the Labour Government can be forced off its centrist path but there's no evidence to suggest that ...
WHY REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT A DEMOCRACY
Can Republicans win without cheating? It sure doesn’t seem like it, since the GOP brazenly supports anti-democratic policies like voter ID...
THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS ALSO AN ECONOMIC CRISIS
A new report has revealed that the richest one percent of people are responsible for double the emissions of the poorest 50 percent o...
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