Rocket Lab’s soaring profits and expanding US military ties are forcing a bigger question: has New Zealand quietly become part of America’s war machine?
A giant golden statue of Donald Trump surrounded by praying evangelicals might be peak MAGA, but critics say it also smashes headfirst into the first two commandments of Christianity itself.
For 40 years US war planners warned attacking Iran would trigger economic chaos, regional war and humanitarian catastrophe. Trump ignored all of it, and now the world may pay the price.
Trump says Iran is broken. The CIA reportedly says otherwise. If Tehran still holds most of its missile stockpile and can survive months of blockade, this war may be entering its most dangerous phase.
The Government is celebrating a 0.1% dip in unemployment while youth joblessness and city unemployment continue climbing. That’s not recovery. That’s drift.
A fertiliser shock from the Iran conflict combined with a severe El Niño event could create the conditions for a catastrophic global famine.
The real danger from the Iran conflict may no longer be military defeat, but global economic collapse, fertiliser shortages and food insecurity spreading worldwide.
The biggest danger from the Iran conflict may not be oil prices, it may be the collapse of global food supply chains feeding billions of people.
New Zealanders are asking how a Prime Minister who talks about values and honour could allegedly support tactics many view as immoral and indefensible.
The Strait of Hormuz must reopen, but that doesn’t mean New Zealand should fight someone else’s war.