GUEST BLOG: Doug Renwick – A Discourse on Corporate Propaganda Part 2: Moral and Political Economy
Over the 20th century in various industrial societies, a more radical and widely read working class media was wiped out by market forces.
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Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – The World is Upside Down! Capitalism is Not Working!
The common phrase “The World is Upside Down” reflects the widespread concern that things are not right in the world….
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Jailhouse narks
Spent a very interesting Thursday in the High Court before Justice Fogarty trying to get the name suppression of Secret Witness C who was a pivotal witness in the Tamihere trial lifted.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson – Health Minister needs treatment for delusions
The truth is that mental health services, when they are available, are creaking at the seams even worse than the overall public health system. Staff numbers are insufficient and staff are poorly remunerated for the work they do, facilities are antiquated or were never adequate, community mental health services are underfunded and sparse or unavailable in many areas and support for vulnerable patients and their families is missing.
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Sian Robertson: The Case for a Cultural Boycott of Israel
Although we are a small country about as far away as you can get from Israel and Palestine, New Zealand has punched above its weight in the past in terms of calling out racist regimes, the most notable example being our protests against the 1981 Springbok Tour.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Horror stories inside Auckland Woman’s Prison
The fact that they have woman vs. child offenders, including extremely violent ones (including those that have committed a range of serious sex crimes) being housed with youths, together- rather than separate, should be of concern to all of us.
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Douglas Renwick – A Discourse on Corporate Propaganda. Part 1: What is Corporate Propaganda?
In order to answer the question of what corporate propaganda it is first necessary to disentangle some standard misleading perceptions about the role that propaganda has played in history.
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Kelvin Smythe – Hekia Parata fighting for her job
For Hekia to use this populist, down-home stuff to distract from the way she has ripped the heart out of New Zealand schools, especially primary schools, and to further her plans for more rough surgery (better called the ‘big shakedown’), demonstrates she senses a problem of tenure, and she knows it.
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Dave Macpherson – Mental healthcare heading for privatisation
Dave Macpherson is The Daily Blog’s mental health blogger after losing his son to mental health incompetence. He is also a candidate for the Waikato DHB.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Globalised Solidarity
The Standing Rock Sioux and those who have joined them have been met with violence from private contractors , including pepper spray and attack dogs, one of the contractors being the large British multinational security contractor G4S.