GUEST BLOG: Lizzie Cook – Answer to ‘Mr’ Mono-Lingual White ‘Man’, Member of the White New Zealand Clan
I wish to address an ongoing attitude from those who feel a sense of righteousness about their white identity.
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – Responding to DimPost on behalf of Marxists
Danylmc writing in the Dimpost blog decides after a quick skimming of Marxism that it never was scientific and moreover is counter-revolutionary because it calls for “smashing capitalism” rather than evolving through many iterations into a new, better society…or not.
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GUEST BLOG: Kelvin Smythe – Hekia Parata: her collapse – her beginning and end
If I despise any individuals in education today, then it is those individuals, those privileged to be academics (not to downplay their efforts to get there), siding with the powerful against those who should be able to, desperately need to be able to, trust in the integrity of academics.
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GUEST BLOG: Ruby Joy – Media’s Robin Hood portrayal of gang leaders dangerous and irresponsible
They say it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye, and ain’t that the truth with this latest turf war in Ngarawahia, but it’s not the first time the media has glorified vigilante justice and sacrificed the streets of a small town for a good story.
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Sian Robertson: City of Peace to Host War Games
The naval training exercises are nothing more than a chance for the boys to show each other their toys. There is an inherent dishonesty and double standard when we can, as a nation, simultaneously celebrate war and bemoan the death and suffering that result from it.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Governments cant organise workers, only unions can
2016 has been another year of decreasing membership for the Union movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Many Unionists will blame this on an anti-worker government. It is true that the Key is government has had a pro-business agenda. But to focus on government as the defining challenge of the union movement can be unhelpful
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GUEST BLOG: Dr David Small – NZ Spy Agencies – Holding Them To Account 3 part Special – Part 3
The NZ Intelligence and Security Bill is the culmination of twenty years of increases in the powers of NZ’s spy agencies. It gives them everything they could hope for. The Bill radically broadens the focus of the SIS and the GCSB so they can run operations on almost anything. It allows them to do literally anything to advance on operation or to cover it up. It allows them to co-opt anybody else into an operation. And it grants immunity from prosecution to everyone involved.
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GUEST BLOG: Doug Renwick – A Discourse on Corporate Propaganda Part 3: The Mass Media on welfare and crime
When it comes to disciplining the general population there aren’t too many different deceptions you can use to do it.
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GUEST BLOG: Dr David Small – NZ Spy Agencies – Holding Them To Account 3 part Special – Part 2
In this series of three articles, I outline why I think this Bill represents the most disturbing attack to date on the rights and freedoms of New Zealanders. Part two traces two decades of intelligence and security legislation from 1996 to 2016.
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GUEST BLOG: Kelvin Smythe – Hekia drew a line
Hekia couldn’t commit herself to the extreme hardline right education policies being prepared for 2017 election manifesto.