Iran sanctions lifted, global warming of oceans much worse than thought, leaked tapes spotlight bank fraud, millions face starvation in Southern Africa + dying child denied medicinal cannabis
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There is a big debate, including on TDB, on the bias of the corporate media, and the need for an independent media to correct this bias. Marxists have long debated the role of media in capitalist society, so what do they have to add on top of the usual corporate blah blah and radical alternative arguments?
Young and mostly male, the New Lynn homeless are a visible part part of the bigger tragedy of high youth unemployment. If you are under 25 you are twice as likely to be out of a job. If you are young, brown and male, make that at least four times.
In 2016 Labour is in its third term of opposition, and it’s easy to imagine how desperately its caucus is looking for a way out. The party is heading into its hundredth year without a charismatic leader, shorn of just about all of the policies it campaigned on in the 2011 and 2014 elections; and as close to broke as any major party should ever be.
West Papua has been under a brutal occupation by Indonesia for over fifty years. This article tries to explain why this is, and why so few people know about it. In order to understand why, we must understand the lies of the media, and of our educational system.
How shameful for a 68 year old human female to have to go to the bathroom once in awhile.
“The Government appears to be sidling back to a market-drive approach to the provision of public hospital services,” says Ian…
The campaign against the TPPA is gearing up for opposition to the planned signing of the TPPA in Auckland on 4th February. It’s time to stand up and be counted.
Renowned climate scientist and ominously, Nuclear Power advocate ( watch this space for John Key advocating nuclear) James E Hansen described Cop21( Copout21) as “a Fraud” .