Amply demonstrating the suffocating grip that neoliberalism has on our so-called 'representative democracy', Labour and National sh...
KATE HAWKESBY : INTERRUPTED LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS
Why is Newstalk ZB's Kate Hawkesby all hot and bothered about epidemiologists Siousxie Wiles and Rodney Jackson? THERE ISN'T A DAY ...
FOX AND THE BIG LIE PART 2
How Fox News promoted Donald Trump’s propaganda and helped destabilise democracy in the United States of America. ON THE NIGHT of the US p...
FOX AND THE BIG LIE PART 1
How Fox News promoted Donald Trump’s propaganda and helped destabilise democracy in the United States of America. FOX NEWS is the brash ca...
CHLOE SWARBRICK : CAN SHE PULL THE GREEN PARTY OUT OF THE NEOLIBERAL QUAGMIRE?
Can Chloe Swarbrick save the Green party from market-led 'environmentalism'? And does she want to? GREEN MP Chloe Swarbrick was out...
NOT SO 'SUPER SATURDAY'
The media and celebrity driven 'fun' of 'Super Saturday' cannot conceal the fact that even with a ninety percent vaccinatio...
GRANT ROBERTSON : AUCKLANDERS ARE TO BLAME!
Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson says Aucklanders are to blame for the spread of the virus. Apparently it has got nothing to do with t...
SALLY ROONEY : IN DEFENCE OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS
Irish writer Sally Rooney refuses to sell the translation rights of her new novel to an Israeli publishing house and gets smeared as '...
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, JACINDA ARDERN RETREATS
The decision of Jacinda Ardern and the Labour Government to drop Auckland to level 3 was designed to placate a clamouring business class, b...
BERLIN VOTES TO ABOLISH LANDLORDS
The people of Berlin have voted for the expropriation of some 250,000 privately owned apartments, to be placed into public ownership. The p...
KRIS FAAFOI : HAVE I GOT A DEAL FOR YOU!
Minister of Justice Kris Faafoi thinks we have 'a world-class electoral system.' That must be why nearly 700,000 people decided not...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PANDEMIC DO NOT AFFECT US ALL EQUALLY
The delta virus may well be a product of nature but the crisis is a product of neoliberalism. WE USED TO LIVE in a country where Governmen...
NEOLIBERALISM IS SPREADING THE VIRUS
It's politically convenient to blame South Auckland gangs for the spread of the delta virus. But the real offenders lie elsewhere... WI...
GRETA THUNBERG : 'THIRTY YEARS OF BLAH, BLAH, BLAH'
The young Swedish activist attacks our political leaders for continued lack of action on climate change. FOUR HUNDRED young climate activ...
GRETA THUNBERG : JACINDA ARDERN IS NO LEADER ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Greta Thunberg has repeated her criticism of the Labour Government's record on climate change. GRETA THUNBERG'S latest criticism o...
ROB WALLACE : COVID CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND THE ORIGINS OF THE VIRUS
ANTI-SCIENTIFIC conspiracy theories are spreading, not just among the right, but even even among some segments of the left. To address thi...
OCCUPY : WE ARE STILL THE 99 PERCENT
Ten years ago this month, the Occupy movement was born in New York... ABOUT A month or so before the balloon went up, a friend in Californi...
THE REVOLUTION DOESN'T START HERE
This past week Labour MP Tamati Coffey boasted that he was responsible for the new bilingual elevators in the Beehive. Meanwhile the Mao...
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ : TAX THE RICH
The socialist congresswoman says 'the medium is the message'. SOCIALIST CONGRESSWOMAN Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez remains the mortal...
WE'RE NOT 'ALL IN THIS TOGETHER'
The only thing the coronavirus pandemic is doing is deepening the inequalities and injustices that were already in evidence. 'WE'RE...
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