Pacific Update: A simple explanation of this week’s military and political developments in the Pacific
Exercise Pacific Skies 2024, European aircraft exercise in the Pacific On 8 July, Exercise Pacific Skies 2024 starts. Pacific Skies…
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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The enormous power of sporting boycotts must be used against Israel’s industrial-scale killing of Palestinians
Older readers will know about the international solidarity campaign against apartheid South Africa which came to a head in the…
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Challenging the myth of inevitable Russian victory
A defining feature of the war in Ukraine is the myth that Russian victory is inevitable. Now, two and a…
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Biden and that debate: he has become death
Thinking about it retrospectively, three events in my life prepared me for seeing the absolute state of Joe Biden in…
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Pacific Update: A simple explanation of this week’s military and political developments in the Pacific
More violence in New Caledonia On 24 June, violence flared up again in New Caledonia. The violence started after the…
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Will Christopher Luxon and Winston Peters face justice at the International Criminal Court?
Late last week Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa sent the government a “letter of demand” over its complicity with Israel’s genocidal…
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PODCAST: A View from Afar – Post-Pandemic Economics and the Rise of National Populism
Post-pandemic economics and the rise of national populism – Wherever we look today, whether it be through a political, economic, or…
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Review of crippling debts to government now delayed to the Never Never.
I have complained loud and often about how the last government conducted multiple ‘reviews’ of social policy. Typically, an expensive…
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Miyamoto Musashi and Ukrainian strategy
Last weekend’s peace conference in Switzerland produced few tangible results. However, the conference dialogue demonstrates subtle shifts in the international…
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The late late news – Goodbye TV Journalism
Mike McRoberts and Duncan Grieve have the same soporific monotone – stripped of emotion, no sense of either urgency or…