Zionism’s quiet influence on our Foreign Relations
On 29 August 2019 we wrote the following email to Ron Mark:
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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Stop the war on the poor
The government needs to be told that there is a difference between measuring a problem and doing something seriously about it.
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Some Thoughts On Socialism As Jeremy Corbyn Loses The UK General Election.
WHAT BETTER DAY to assess the latest contribution from The Daily Blog’s resident Marxist than Election Day in the UK?…
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Dave Macpherson: It will take more than $s to fix our broken mental health system
Since the Government’s budget announcement of a large spending increase in the mental health area, it has followed up with specific initiatives, including the recent establishment of the new Suicide Prevention Office, and increased spending on Maori & Pacific suicide prevention and school counselling and mental health support.
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Grant Robertson Spends Up Large – On The Establishment!
I think it’s safe to say that after Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s announcement of the Government’s proposed infrastructure spend-up, the New Zealand Establishment will be plotting nothing more dangerous that inviting the Minister to celebratory end-of-year drinks.
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What To Make Of National MP Parmjeet Parmar’s Gandhi Statue Proposition
Backbench Opposition MPs are occasionally curious creatures, as are social media advert-targeting algorithms. Due, no doubt, to an ongoing quirk of the latter, I found myself presented with a sponsored post from National’s List MP based on Mt Roskill, Parmjeet Parmar, calling for the enshrinement of a Gandhi statue here in Auckland to coincide with the latter figure’s 150th birthday and asking me to sign a petition in support of same.
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Delusional And Irrational: The Rise Of Paranoid Politics
WHAT IF EVERYTHING we currently think about politics in New Zealand is wrong?
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“Starting your clock” on Israel’s history
In any discussion of the morality of Israel’s conduct, it is immaterial when you “start your clock” on the history of the Zionist state.
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Why Elon Musk’s “Victory” In Recent Defamation Suit Was A Joke
I am pretty appalled at the outcome of the recent defamation suit launched against Elon Musk in retaliation to his statements that the plaintiff, Vernon Unsworth, was a “pedo”.
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Adrian Orr – The Reserve Bank’s Revolutionary Governor?
I’M BEGINNING to suspect that Reserve Bank Governor, Adrian Orr, is, at heart, a revolutionary. The decision of the Reserve…