Trump Cuba Military Action: Another Distraction War?
Iran was supposed to be the distraction. Now Cuba is suddenly in the frame. Trump’s empire politics are starting to look less like strategy and more like panic.
Iran was supposed to be the distraction. Now Cuba is suddenly in the frame. Trump’s empire politics are starting to look less like strategy and more like panic.

The Bradbury Group turns one because the old show was punished for saying the quiet parts out loud: Israel, think tanks, media power and big polluter influence.

Banks get a token levy. Public servants get the axe. State tenants get higher rents. Budget 2026 is not balance, it is class warfare dressed as discipline.

RNZ gets Brent Impey, Paul Thompson heads for the exit and Maiki Sherman’s fall still says plenty about political journalism. Martyn is not pretending to be neutral.

Jools Topp was joy, protest, country music, yodelling and defiance wrapped into one. We mourn her because she represented an Aotearoa we are losing.

Banks get a joke tax. Landlords keep their loot. Beneficiaries, students, tenants and public servants get the bill. Budget 2026 is class warfare with spreadsheets.

The Pope has entered the AI debate, and Martyn sees the real fight: organic God versus artificial God in the biggest market turf war on Earth.
Clarke Gayford’s intimate Jacinda Ardern documentary has won an Emmy. Somewhere, the right-wing outrage machine is making the most beautiful noise.

Hospitals burned. Patients missing. Health workers under attack. Ebola misinformation is deadly, and the West has already shown it is hardly immune.
Trump followed Netanyahu into a war with Iran. Tehran answered by choking the Strait of Hormuz. Now the price of reopening it may be billions in frozen assets.