Information wars: Gaza as “the last taboo”, the threat of mass surveillance and the spirit of dissidence
“When the truth is replaced with silence” wrote the soviet dissident Yevgeni Yevtushenko, “the silence is a lie.”
Chloe King
-
-
“Now the work of movements begins”: government corruption, media bias, youth voting and the role of revolutionaries
I am so tired of the dirty politics of the National government, aren’t you?
-
Revenge porn, consent and why people need to stop victim blaming Jennifer Lawrence
We live in a culture that endlessly blames women for other people’s violence and violations against them. We live in a culture that fears a women’s sexuality, but teaches us it is the only real currency of value.
-
Blogwatch: An open letter to David Farrar: Please, be that guy
In light of Nicky Hager’s book Dirty Politics, you wrote a blog entitled ‘Some changes on Kiwiblog’ and you suggested it was time to tighten up ship on your website, saying “I want to improve trust in myself, Kiwiblog, and perhaps the wider blogosphere.”
-
Cameron Slater: Zionist and political pundit
As New Zealanders begin to learn the full extent of Slater’s corruptions, smear campaigns and how much he and his Whale Oil blog have influenced elections in the last six years, he is being paid, as I type this, to also pedal Israeli propaganda.
-
Show me what democracy looks like: 6 activists for Palestine #Occupy the NZ Super Fund Office
At around 12pm yesterday Nadia Filistin, who has been a major organiser in the Auckland protests against Israel’s ongoing assaults in Gaza over the last 6 weeks which has killed over 1900 Palestinians and injured thousands, updated her Facebook status with this…
-
Why chanting “fuck John Key” is a battle cry not profanity and how the Occupy Movement helped shape the Internet Party
From the bottom of my heart fuck John Key and his selfish, misogynistic, rape minimising, war mongering government that only cares for the rich, disregards the voices of young people and has no compassion for the working poor or those suffering under the poverty line.
-
Why Hillary Clinton is not ‘a beacon of female empowerment’
Clinton is being held up by many social commentators as some kind of vision of ‘female empowerment’ – after all, she has smashed glass ceiling after glass ceiling, and she is a proud self-declared feminist. Hell, maybe she is even a ‘feminist icon’.
-
Paul Henry; the issue is you, not flag-burning
When people show more outrage at the burning of a flag than Israeli forces bombing hospitals, schools being used as UN Shelters and mosques–places of refuge–while Palestinians are still inside, you know we have a collective problem as a society in connecting with our own humanity.
-
A feminist takedown of Whale Oil
Whale Oil does it again. How many more times is he going to attack and discredit Tania Billingsley publicly? In a short blog published on Wednesday ‘Nothing to be sorry’ for Whale Oil also known as Cameron Slater, is defending John Key in his refusal to say sorry personally to Tania for his appalling handling of the Malaysian Diplomat case.