The Octopus Murder Conspiracy – Why Iranians can never trust Americans
From coups to conspiracies, the history between Iran and America explains why trust is impossible — and why today’s conflict matters.
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Unfinished business over New Caledonian decolonisation – new challenges after ‘stolen’ referendum
Revealed: What Roch Wamytan and the Front de Liberation Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS) delegation told French Prime Minister French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in Paris about the future of Kanaky New Caledonia.
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Dr Liz Gordon: History and language
I have enjoyed Māori language week, but believe that every week should celebrate te reo Māori, our indigenous language.
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Galipolli or Mangatawhiri? – selective memory of war
It would be much more appropriate for New Zealand to scrap ANZAC DAY (25 April – dated for the landing at Gallipoli in World War I) and shift our national remembrance of war to 12 July – the day in 1863 that imperial troops crossed the Mangatawhiri River and the great war for New Zealand began.
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GUEST BLOG: Tina Ngata – A Crook By Any Other Name: Celebrating Cook
Well there goes another February 14th. Evenings of whimsical sighs, chinking champagne glasses, and adoring compliments across the Pacific as indigenous folks send their thanks out to the Hawaiian cousins that took care of business, and finally put an end to the diseased, kidnapping, murderous, thieving invader called Captain James Cook.
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Nothing To Celebrate
New Zealand’s participation in the Vietnam War, no matter how marginal, represented a shameful capitulation to American pressure. It was an immoral war which we should never have joined, and the idea of “celebrating” its fiftieth anniversary should be repugnant to all thinking New Zealanders.
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BOOK REVIEW: Te Rangihaeata
The central characters in each book represent, for me at least, the ‘most important’ New Zealanders of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; namely Ngāti Toa chief, Te Rangihaeata, and our most-loved Australian immigrant, Michael Joseph Savage.