Disenchanted.
OAMARU likes to think of itself as the “steam-punk” capital of the world. It certainly has plenty of the whitestone…
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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News From Nowhere If the Greens are to have a future they must listen to their past
THE TRAGEDY OF THE GREENS’ corruption by neoliberalism is that they simply cannot grasp how completely they’ve been seduced. At…
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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa asks Fat Freddy’s Drop to withdraw from Sydney Festival
On Friday PSNA wrote to Fat Freddy’s Drop asking the Kiwi supergroup to withdraw from their scheduled 18 January performance…
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Looking forward to 2022 – social liberation or fascism?
2021 has been an extraordinary year. Capitalism has demonstrated it is incapable of protecting people’s lives or living standards. Quite…
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A Pandemic in the Family
Simply dismissing, as idiots, those who reject what our government and its science advisors have instructed us about Covid 19, doesn’t help.
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‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for 2022
The Pacific year has closed with growing tensions over sovereignty and self-determination issues and growing stress over the ravages of covid-19 pandemic in a region that was largely virus-free in 2020.
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America’s Foreign Policy Death Spiral
Malcolm Evans on an Information Clearing House article by distinguished US Professor of history W.L Hixson
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The Wall Street Fascist Plot
Chris Trotter’s essay on the possibility of civil war erupting in the United States is timely, at least if the…
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu – Friend of Aotearoa New Zealand and Champion of Palestinian human rights – dies aged 90
Palestine has lost a champion of the struggle against Israeli apartheid with the death today of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, aged 90.
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Cannabis year in review: the referendum’s long shadow
For the second year of the zombie apocalypse, covid cast a long shadow over everything, the referendum left us in…