Eighty-One Thousand Votes.
IF THE GREENS proceed with the constitutional changes mooted by political commentator Matthew Hooton, then their electoral future is bleak….
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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Labour’s disgrace – the housing catastrophe for low-income families rolls on…
There are no excuses – there is nowhere to hide – there are no figleaves. Labour’s disgrace is in plain…
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Trusting the News?
The emergence of Breitbart News, Donald Trump and the alt-right media ecology inspired a cornucopia of conspiracist websites and streaming…
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America’s To Lose: But the Outcome of “The Great Game” Remains Unclear.
THE GREAT GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGE confronting the United States is that the Americas are separated from Eurasia by two broad oceans….
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Invasion and Resistance
While the war crimes being committed in Ukraine mount, the Western news media and government leaders unite in innocence, as…
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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…
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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….