John Key is a principled man – except when a photo op arises (A Photo Essay)
Our esteemed Dear Leader would run naked through Hades if there was a photo-op involved.
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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Let’s target the real gangs in NZ
The gang problem in New Zealand is totally out of control. It is all pervasive and almost impossible to avoid. Unlike other problems like poverty, which the government has mainly managed to keep out of the rich areas, the gangs now infiltrate every suburb. It is time to identify them and replace welfare with warfare.
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Cullen and Reddy don’t make a convincing case for the spy agencies
The best way out of this confict of interest is for the government’s cybersecurity unit to be independent of the GCSB and any relevant GCSB personnel and equipment to be transferred to the new unit.
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Dear Michael Cullen: the GCSB is not International Rescue!
When a spokesperson for the government tries to employ scare-tactics to persuade the public that increasing surveillance powers for various arms of the State – in this case the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) – is warranted, then suspicions arise.
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Spy report increases the terror threat to New Zealand
Keeping New Zealand and New Zealanders safe is best done by the police under strong democratic oversight through parliament. We should abolish the SIS and GCSB – they contribute only to make New Zealand a target for terrorism.
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MUST READ: Zero hours end product of workers struggle
As I am writing (Thursday, March 10), the New Zealand parliament has unanimously passed a law that will eliminate zero…
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NZ First Shouldn’t Flag Hindi-Language Voters
It would be an inordinate shame if the message the Indian community took away from this particular imbroglio was that New Zealand First didn’t want them to vote.
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Why the pundits got it wrong in Michigan
The mainstream media pundits just don’t get it. They don’t get it that the Bernie Sanders campaign has never been about “politics as usual”. Rather, it is “the politics of the unusual”.
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MUST READ – Blurred Vision: Why Labour Isn’t Trusted To Govern New Zealand
It is the privilege of historians to pinpoint the causes of an institution’s malaise, even when they have little to offer by way of immediate solutions.
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Palestine – misery without end yet resistance without waver
When the history of the 20th and 21st centuries is written by future historians they will remark on the astonishing steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the face of the relentless brutality and oppression they are suffering at the hands of the Israeli army.