Punishing Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning is a hero. She exposed the truth of what the US Military were really doing in Iraq and their war crimes remain a stain alongside so many other stains caused by America’s corporate wars.
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From Good Guys To Fall Guys: The Spinoff and Generation Zero fail to endorse Mike Lee
UP UNTIL TUESDAY of last week I’d always thought of The Spinoff and Generation Zero as the good guys. A wee bit hipsterish perhaps, in the case of the former; a little hard to distinguish from the Green Party in the latter – but these were minor quibbles. Overall, both organisations came across as fresh, creative, and definitely on the side of the progressive angels.
Not anymore.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Frontline at the fight for the heart and soul of the British Labour Party
Ben Peterson is a Unite Union Organiser and is TDBs correspondent in Britain covering the fight and fallout of the British Labour Party Leadership contest.
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Political Caption Competition
“So the children come down this slide straight into the grinder? Marvellous”
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 25th September 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Collusion, corruption, contradictions and cover ups in fishing industry, stink.
Those of us interested in the marine environment either as fishers or as conservationists, have known for a long time that in general, current commercial fishing practices stink.
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New Green MP Barry Coates: The TPPA campaign – It ain’t over
The TPPA ‘comes into force’ (ie. starts) when countries accounting for 85% of the combined GNP of TPPA countries ratify it. That is extremely unlikely to happen before the next New Zealand election in 2017. So a future coalition government could withdraw our ratification of the TPPA before it starts.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Corrections should have listened to me in 2003
I’ve actually got some sympathy for Corrections, because it all started with a Court of Appeal decision refusing to accept from me the very argument the Supreme Court has now upheld was correct.
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Cash for copy site ‘The Spinoff’ states Bravo ‘not a client’
Cash for copy site – the supposed saviour of journalism – The blue/green millennial Spinoff has felt a certain amount of pressure recently over the blurry line between their cash for copy products and their copy…
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Indian Students facing Deportation plan more protests to get justice
International Indian students facing deportation from New Zealand continue to fight for justice with a protest planned outside a meeting…