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Do the mainstream media think we’ve forgotten the fake news about the Kuwaiti girl Nayirah who claimed to have seen Iraqi soldiers taking babies out of incubators during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait? You know, when they repeated the lies of Bush Senior get the US population to accept the invasion of Iraq.
Around the world, but very prominently in New Zealand, the turn away from class politics to identity politics as the principal organisational form of the Left occurred just as the social democratic compromise was undone and inequality began to rise again. Unlike class politics, which unites workers of all colours, genders, and sexualities to oppose capitalism, identity politics was not able to deal with this reconsolidation of power by the capitalist and new financial elite.
Well there goes another February 14th. Evenings of whimsical sighs, chinking champagne glasses, and adoring compliments across the Pacific as indigenous folks send their thanks out to the Hawaiian cousins that took care of business, and finally put an end to the diseased, kidnapping, murderous, thieving invader called Captain James Cook.
Our rations are meagre enough on Corrections $4 per day food budget without this carry on.
The urban liberals who prioritise identity politics above seizing control of the economy for workers and citizens are the Labour supporters who don’t get hurt when National wins an election.
For nine years I have watched communities disintegrate while some in our beautiful country have advanced.
Corrections NZ are hiding a surge in prison suicides – The Daily Blog’s Prisoner Rights Blogger and current inmate Arthur Taylor critiques the cover up.
Around the end of January this year, a US Navy SEAL team , using armed Reaper drones for cover, carried out a commando raid in Yemen, attacking what the Americans said, was a compound harbouring officials of Al Qaeda .
I will stand alongside anyone calling for fair treatment for refugees, but I’d like to ask Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne MP what he has done over the last two and a half years to make a real difference to the poorest and most vulnerable in his own neck of the woods?
There is a lot of crying out now about ‘fascism’ with the ascension of Trump. Trump may be a crypto-,…