The Disinformation Game
WHEN IT COMES to the disinformation game, the Russians have got “form”. Perhaps their most nefarious exercise in deceiving the world is the evil concoction known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Chris Trotter
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Arguing About China
ARGUING ABOUT CHINA is fast becoming a “thing” – especially on the Left.
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Killing The Nats With, Of All Things, Kindness.
The Mike Hoskings of this world are telling New Zealanders not to believe the numbers thrown up by Newshub’s Reid Research poll. They simply cannot accept that the social solidarity which was asked for, and given, during the period of Lockdown has paid such handsome political dividends. Clearly, they are no historians.
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Why Is The Left Not Opposing The West’s New Cold War With China?
ANTI-RACISM IS BIG at the moment – very big. Why, then, are so many on the left of politics, both here and overseas, climbing aboard the Western powers’ New Cold War Express?
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Auckland Central: The Importance of Acting Strategically.
JUST WHEN YOU’RE THINKING Labour’s activists have become smart, caring and (almost) wise; they prove themselves to be anything but. A pseudonymous contributor to The Standard, Te Reo Putake, has seized the opportunity created by Nikki Kaye’s resignation to demand that the Greens pull Chloe Swarbrick from the Auckland Central race.
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The Judith Collins-Led National Party: Be Scared – Be Very Scared.
WHOEVER E-MAILED MARK RICHARDSON on Wednesday morning’s AM Show was right: Judith Collins scares me
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MUST READ: Has the National Party Become a Threat to National Security?
“Oh, come on!”, I hear you say, “The Nats aren’t that bad! This is paranoid political partisanship at its worst.” To which I would reply: “Mate, you haven’t being paying attention!”
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Look For The Light
While looking for something else entirely in an old trunk in my garage, I came across the following lines. Written nearly 50 years ago, they struck me as having an oddly contemporary feel.
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Are Walker and Boag National’s (and the Media’s) Designated Villains?
It would be nice to think that Hamish Walker and Michelle Boag “came clean” because of a belated attack of common decency. More likely, however, their confessions were driven by fear of the official inquiry into the leak ordered by Minister of Health, Chris Hipkins.
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Why Kurt Taogaga Had To Go.
THE LABOUR PARTY delisted Kurt Taogaga for one very simple, very brutal, reason: to appease the mainstream news media.