72,000 watch TDB’s live stream of Hager & Stephenson Hit & Run launch
Our live stream of the launch of Hit and Run has almost hit 72 000, don’t you dare allow others to tell you people don’t care about this.
New Zealand Politics
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John Key’s blood drenched legacy
Key was in it for Key. He didn’t give a damn about the country, he only cared about being loved by the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind, and Christ did they love him. His laid back anti-intellectualism allowed NZers with property to not care about those who didn’t. He made it okay to not care about the poor, the homeless, the vulnerable. He made it ok to not have to ask hard or deeper questions. He made it ok to not give a fuck and be as selfish as he was.
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Helen Clark and John Key share the blame for the fiasco in Afghanistan
As the government does its best to squirm its way out of holding any inquiry into the killing of civilians during an SAS-led raid on two villages in Afghanistan its worth looking back at why we were there in the first place – or better still – why we shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
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Who cares about War Crimes?
The book co-authored by Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson, “Hit and Run”, contains allegations that some people have said could amount to war crimes.
Why does it matter? Horrible things happen in war, so let’s just get over it. Right?
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List of official denials made to the media about SAS civilian deaths (2010 – 2014)
New Zealand, your political, military and media class have lied to you about an atrocity and possible war crime that we have carried out and was signed off by the Prime Minister.
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Q+A with Nicky Hager on war crime allegations
Q+A with Nicky Hager on war crime allegations
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With Wayne Mapp admitting civilian deaths – Government & Military can no longer pretend
…remember the NZ Military and Government are still claiming nothing happened here and there doesn’t need to be an inquiry.
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New Zealand’s First “Revenge Raid” – Surafend, Palestine, 1918
The shocking events described by Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson in Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour are not without precedent in the history of New Zealand’s military engagements overseas. In the tiny Palestinian village of Surafend, in the final days of 1918, New Zealand troops participated in what was indisputably a serious war crime. The parallels with the SAS “Revenge Raid” of August 2010 are striking.
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On Recent Opinion Polling
In any case, whilst my affection for the Roy Morgan poll is well known, it is certainly not the only game in town. And the Reid Research material out the same day makes for some decidedly interesting comparison-work between the two analyses.
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Compare NZ Herald coverage of John Key’s war crimes to the Dom Post
…this morning the NZ Herald had a story about Justin Bieber dancing sexily with an old woman as a bigger story than Key being complicit in a war crime.