I maintain my belief that Jacinda did not know the severity of this allegation and that when you compare how National behaved with the Mike Sabin situation, Labour’s supposed sin here isn’t even in the same category as National’s.
Dr. Judy Taguiwalo, former Philippine Secretary for Social Welfare and Development in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte, will be…
The three big crises of our time are all part of the crisis of the Capitalocene. Economic crisis means that capitalism has exhausted its ability to produce profits without destroying nature. The extinction crisis means that nature is fighting back against end of the biosphere. The third crisis is that of revolutionary leadership. How to build the a revolutionary movement with a program to lead the revolution to end capitalism and build the Commune?
Ever since the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the British Labour Party, the Israelis have sanctioned, funded and organised one of their most shameless interventions, ever, in the domestic affairs of a sovereign nation.
Really good to hear the push to ensure New Zealand history is taught in the country’s schools in a coherent manner has paid off, with the prime minister announcing changes to the curriculum yesterday.
If you want to compare apples with apples, let’s compare how National treated Mike Sabin and how Labour have treated this staffer.
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has written to Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters today urging that New Zealand condemn the Israeli Prime Minister’s planned annexation of vast tracts of the occupied West Bank of Palestine.
So in the wake of a recent Newshub piece that quotes National’s Simon Bridges enthusiastically talking up the Chinese Communist Party – not, you know, the People’s Republic of China, but the Communist Party *itself*, various portions of my newsfeed have understandably been understandably just a little surprised and more than a little bemused that Blue is apparently The New Red
No one else is defending Jacinda, so dammit I will.
Bridges astounding praise of China on Chinese State media looks less like an interview and more like a hostage video.