Wealth, inheritance and inter-generational conflict
The ‘one percenters’ must be enjoying the spectacle of young adults fighting baby boomers for the privileges of a diminishing middle class lifestyle. Unfortunately, the inter-generational conflict frame pervades many conventional analyses of social inequality.
Read More →Bernie versus Wall Street
In Washington the finance lobby is more powerful than big Oil, big Pharma and Hollywood. In the Federal Reserve senior positions are occupied by alumini from Goldman Sachs and other major investment banks. And, Hilary Clinton, like her husband, is not going to upset these people.
Read More →MUST READ – Flagging the TPPA
In the middle of the anti-TPPA march down Queen street was a stooped pakeha woman carrying the New Zealand flag. A few paces in front, groups of Maori marched under the Tino rangitiratanga ensign. These domestically opposed symbols of national identity were,for the moment, standing together against a common threat – the transnational corporation.
Read More →The Cost of Living: A review of Thomas Owen’s ‘Patents, Pills and the Press’
Hidden within the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is a longstanding conflict between pharmaceutical corporations and health activists over the availability of generic medicines.
Read More →Media Ownership in New Zealand : 2015
For those wondering why our quality of journalism has declined ,and why current affairs television has disappeared amidst a deluge of `reality` shows, tabloid pap and advertising, help is on its way. As co-director of a research centre entitled Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) I announce the publication of our 2015 New Zealand Media Ownership report.
Read More →Don`t take the knighthood Richie
Don`t accept the knighthood Richie ,your extraordinary accomplishments and those of the team speak for themselves , they require no further adornment.
Read More →Global Capitalism, national democracy and the TPPA
The TPPA matches the desire of transnational corporations to hollow out national economies, polities and legal systems. Signatories to the agreement are in effect answerable to organisations of the transnational state at the expense of national populations.
Read More →Hosking on Corbyn – a point by point rebuttal
Sometimes insulting or abusive judgments about others reveal more about the judger than the accused. Individuals may psychologically project their own negative qualities onto other people without realising that they are doing so.
Read More →Capitalism and Cocaine
The lack of financial regulation, the spread of individual greed and hedonism, the collapse of social ethics, and economic polarization are the preconditions for a barbaric form of capitalism which is synonymous with organized crime.
Read More →New Zealand in Denial: a review of Jane Kelsey`s ‘The FIRE Economy’
When the bubble bursts, perhaps in response to another major global financial event, the socio-economic consequences could be disastrous.
Read More →The Death of Campbell Live
In a commercially-saturated mediascape, issues-based current affairs has died; a species poisoned by the financialization of media ownership at a politically convenient time
Read More →Who owns NZ media?
The transnational colonisation of NZ on-line media is under way.
Read More →One Party State
In years to come this election will be seen as a historic turning point towards one party rule.
Read More →Democracy and Cancer: A critical analysis of Dirty Politics
After reading the book and observing the fall out, I would say this: the United Kingdom is in worse health, but we are catching up fast. Both the New Zealand body politic and media system are in a condition of decline. I will now provide a diagnostic history of the disease, identify recent symptoms, and suggest appropriate remedies.
Read More →Ponsonby Civil Wars
Hostilities have broken out in tree-lined Franklin Road, Ponsonby and may spread throughout the region.
Read More →A critical deconstruction of John Key – what’s behind the facade?
The portrait is superficial and selective yet inadvertently revealing. Key’s attributes, as Roughan describes them, can also be perceived as shortcomings from a more critical standpoint. There is also another, less palatable side to the Prime Minister which his apologists neglect to mention.
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