Forgetting To Remember: News Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War
WATCHING THE NEWS coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War is a struggle. The entire Western news media, our own included, have…
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning: Russia’s Atrocities Revealed But Can Justice Be Achieved?
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse how it is now clear atrocities committed against Ukrainian civilians is widespread, appears systematic, and may be coldly planned by Russian leaders as troops withdraw toward the east. But can justice be achieved?
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Bucha – the Russian Army’s Fallujah!
The discovery of many civilian bodies lying dead in the Ukrainian city of Bucha has brought out more western rhetoric…
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Indigenous Imperialist?
THE APPOINTMENT OF NANAIA MAHUTA as New Zealand’s foreign affairs minister was hailed as a triumph for indigenous peoples everywhere….
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NZ shouldn’t Big Brother the Solomons over relations with China
Every now and again there’s a scare story about China trying to establish a military base in the South Pacific….
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Time for rent controls – no excuses, no hand-wringing – just do it!
In 1936 New Zealand faced a similar housing crisis to what we face today. Houses were in short supply, wages…
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PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning: Signals+Tech Intel Ops and the Defence of Ukraine
https://youtu.be/lQ2KVesyQug A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse how New Zealand…
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Ukraine, Israel, racism & refugees
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed so much hypocrisy in Aotearoa New Zealand and around the western world that’s it’s…
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Double Standards: What’s Evil In Ukraine Is Apparently Good For The Solomon Islands.
THERE HAS TO BE something wrong with us. It’s the only explanation that makes sense. Some sickness of mind and…
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Refugees and Racism
I recall in the early 2000s when Mugabe was on the rampage in Zimbabwe while the world watched on in…