GUEST BLOG: Martin and Lois Griffiths – A Woman, A Child and A Man
These are just 3 cases , of the thousands Palestinians trapped in the Israeli gulag system. Palestinian prisoners have names and stories that deserve telling.
Guest Blogs & Sponsored Posts
Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Anonymous – the truth about the housing crisis in Auckland
Every week over this wet winter I am being asked to fix substandard structures that are leaking that should not in any way be housing but are being populated by families, couples, the working poor who consist in equal measure of both people born here and recent non-wealthy migrants.
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GUEST BLOG: Sam Gribben – Ask not what the Maori Party can do for Helen Clark
The Maori Party’s announcement that they won’t endorse Clark should at the very least force us to look a bit more closely at the love fest. Notwithstanding the furious reaction of #Helen4SG fans across the political and media spectrums, with accusations of stupidity, betrayal, and even treason, the Maori Party has given us all permission to have a more real conversation
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Protest at “The Block” Open home
In recent weeks the nightly TV news has had story after story about the affordability of housing. But the moment the TV news finishes at 7:30 pm, it’s like the problem goes away. For TV they go straight into their latest reality TV hit- The Block. The Block is a celebration of property speculation. Contestants are given a house, renovate and flip it in less than six months, winners claiming any profit they get along the way.
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GUEST BLOG: Kieran Kelly – It is Not Ridiculous to Reject Hillary; It is Not Undemocratic to Disrupt the DNC
In a post on The Daily Blog, Chris Trotter has taken “Bernie’s die-hard supporters” to task for being “ridiculous”, but he seems to be ignorant of some of the reasons behind the behaviour of the people he criticises. Not only is their response valid, the circumstances that lead them to it have a significance even broader than this US general election.
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GUEST BLOG: Neil Watts – Don’t mention the steel
NZ Herald’s Orwellian approach to substandard steel and Chinese trade threats show partisan anti-news agenda
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Prison seizes Church for SWAT team
Sunday morning and 11 inmates are off to church ( out of 48 in the unit ), some clutching bibles .
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Aleppo between barbarism and socialism
The military strategy is always to use the masses blood to advance the negotiating strength of this or that bourgeois faction to win the franchise to act as the gendarmes of imperialism. The blood of the Syrian people are bargaining chips for this or that client state.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson: MENTAL HEALTH – The Emperor is naked and the ‘peasants’ are starting to revolt.
National’s political radar has been noticeably out of synch in a number of high profile areas recently (what Housing Crisis?; what Tax Haven?), and another that is more stealthily creeping up on them is the growing damage that well-publicised calamities in the mental health sector are causing to their well-cultivated image of being on top of health issues.
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GUEST BLOG: Alex Pirie – We Are Not Robots
I am not saying that constructive criticism is not a valuable and important tool when work is not up to standard or when improvement in performance is necessary. However, we are not all the same. We respond to different motivators and triggers.