Examining the use of sexual torture by Israel and Hamas
When sexual torture becomes part of the information war, the question is not who controls the narrative. It is who is being protected from accountability.
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TDB Contributions drive for Election ’26 coverage
Election 2026 is becoming a political knife fight over who gets heard, who gets blamed and who gets protected. Independent media has never mattered more.
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MSD Accused of Helping Debt Collectors Target Beneficiaries
The State is taking money from beneficiaries and handing it to debt collectors while taxpayers fund emergency support to keep those same people afloat.
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Dumb Lives Matter mutates into Dumb Cars Matter protests
From the placards to the rhetoric, NZ’s fuel tax protests are beginning to look like the Parliament lawn movement with a petrol twist.
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This Government kick the disabled in the balls and you are allowing them to because you hate Jacinda
After disability carers won in the Supreme Court, the Government’s response is to rewrite the law and strip protections away again.
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After BNZ, What Else Should NZ Nationalise?
NZ’s economy is dominated by monopolies and duopolies. If BNZ should return to public ownership, maybe that argument applies elsewhere too.
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Nicola Willis promising more job losses in mutilated public service
The Government is once again selling public service cuts as “efficiency” while New Zealand faces economic instability, climate disasters and collapsing infrastructure. The real debate isn’t bureaucracy, it’s whether the State still has the capacity to function.
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Why wasn’t Ray Chung hounded like Tory Whanau?
Tory Whanau was publicly torn apart for rumours and innuendo, yet Ray Chung’s resignation following police concerns around an emergency response has generated nowhere near the same level of scrutiny. The contrast says a lot about who the media chooses to target.
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Simon Court attacks the Greens and pimps for Zionism again
Simon Court attacking the Greens while defending Israel may play well inside ACT’s culture war bubble, but for many New Zealanders the conversation is now shaped by Gaza, Mossad controversies and decades of unresolved occupation and violence.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – When a falsified Taxpayers’ Union ‘golden handshake’ is neither ‘golden’ nor a ‘handshake’
The Taxpayers’ Union has perfected the art of manufacturing fury around public sector payouts, but strip away the slogans and many of these so-called ‘golden handshakes’ turn out to be contractual obligations dressed up as scandal.
