Punishing Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning is a hero. She exposed the truth of what the US Military were really doing in Iraq and their war crimes remain a stain alongside so many other stains caused by America’s corporate wars.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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That time in the High Court when I argued how much I loathed Cameron Slater
It was a pretty surreal moment in the High Court yesterday arguing with a High Court Lawyer how much I loathed Cameron Slater…
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Prisoner compo vs skinny person compo highlights a hollow society
If you want someone to blame, look at the underfunded and burnt out public services who’ve become callous in their obligations to those in their care. If prisoner rights were at the forefront of Corrections priorities, the investigation to ensure they were being released at the right time would have occurred and demanded change.
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What many opponents of Trump seem to be horribly missing in the latest opinion polls from America
At this stage, it doesn’t even matter if Hillary wins, Trump has won. The hate he has injected into the body politic is unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times and the long term carcinogenic impacts of that type of political cancer are difficult to predict.
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Let’s be honest about what the Corrections Blunder is really about shall we?
This isn’t a ‘blunder’ – it’s the truth about a civil service that has become uncivil. About public services that are supposed to be the bastions of egalitarianism essential to a progressive liberal democracy mutating into the cruelest of torture devices used by the State to keep the poor too terrified to fight back.
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Gifting something that isn’t yours to gift: What Kermadec’s fiasco says about us
It’s always funny how it’s supposed to be Maori who just roll over and have their private property taken off them for the benefit of the public
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The facade of local democracy in Auckland
The fundamental problem of engagement in local democracy comes down to the grim reality that most of the democracy at a local level is a facade.
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1 dancer vs the NZ Empire of Toxic Masculinity Rugby
…so it was an encouraging and female friendly environment where Scarlette performed graphic acts for the lads in a really pro-feminist setting?
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As NZers scramble to comprehend that their justice system is racist – a Maori gets threatened with arrest for speaking Maori
That it’s taken almost 2 centuries for us to discuss how racist the system of NZ really is should be the shocking part of this issue.
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After Crone’s climate denier meltdown, Phil Goff has won the Auckland Mayoralty – the only question now is how many votes can Chloe Swarbrick get?
I know, I know – never count your chickens before they hatch, but in this case the chickens have all moved over seas after completing PHDs at University and are now thinking about tax haven retirement options.