VENEZUELA DESERVES DEMOCRACY, but that is not what Venezuela is going to get. What it will get – as the whole world is currently witnessing – is a brutal assault on its people by the world’s most powerful nation. Venezuela is being threatened with economic strangulation, civil war and, should these stratagems prove ineffective in dislodging the government of President Nicolas Maduro, a full-scale military invasion led by the United States itself.
“One of the few bold measures this Government has done to combat climate change, banning future oil exploration, is being attacked by Big Oil who are desperate to hide the fact they are now a sunset industry”.
The second panel at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Should Look Like was on the Internationalised Economy. This contribution is from Bill Rosenberg on financial stability and tax.
There are a few things to be said about this attack-line from the National Party’s Judith Collins. One of which, is that Collins either doesn’t know, or more likely simply doesn’t care about the facts of the situation. Juan Guaido did not contest the 2018 Venezuelan Presidential Election. It is therefore impossible to truthfully call him the “rightful winner” of said Election.
Weeks after New Zealand voted in favour of the United Nations Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, a supposed grand protest against it took place.
If this is really where the Greens, the Unions, Action Station and woke activists on Twitter are going, it’s going to be one hell of an alienation to try and come back from.
TDB’s mental health blogger sat down with Jami-Lee Ross to discuss mental health, harassment allegations and the politics behind his fight with National
No-one can be ignorant of the rapid rise of these two movements. But few will recognise in their spontaneous eruption why they are the beginnings of a social revolution against capital.
I have found new beauties within Aotearoa during this summer. Such a beautiful natural environment. I have also seen cow-poo rivers and streams, poverty, racism and social inequality, of course. These are for another day, another blog.
There should be no surprise in a recent report that Government had turned its back on NGO community housing providers to instead work with developers to provide social housing. This move is both a pragmatic one and an inevitable consequence of the Government’s self-imposed budget responsibility rules. But the community housing providers v developers dichotomy is more complex than some would have us believe.