Sanders again exceeds expectations, this time in Wisconsin
Hillary Clinton’s backers keep announcing that she has the Democratic presidential nomination in the bag. But Bernie Sanders keeps shrinking her lead.
politics
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The Past Future of Work: 1928 and All That
I didn’t once hear the words ‘Keynes’ or ‘Keynesian’ at the Future of Work conference. The issues we face today were all apparent and widely discussed in the late 1920s. The debate in 1928 was equally off the mark. Then, as now, we responded to a crisis of inequality and environment by, as individuals, trying to be more ‘competitive’ and arguing about immigration.
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Shrugging-Off The Panama Papers
Key’s “ … what? …” reaction to the colossal data leak which has already claimed the scalp of one prime minister and put the careers of many other world leaders at risk is rather perplexing. Is he not able to predict the impact the Panama Papers are bound to have on the privileged privacy of the global elites
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A Modest Proposal
Governments and capitalists are always banging on about how the private sector is more efficient than the public sector., so I’ve got a modest proposal for them.
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Is Westpac an enemy of activists and journalists in NZ?
while I have Westpac’s attention, did you hand over to the Police any other activist, journalist or blogger’s details the way you did with Nicky Hager?
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Key’s Colonial Daze
Somehow, NZ’s PM has convinced himself that, constitutionally, his country remains a colonial appendage of the United Kingdom. That the granting of Self-Governing Dominion status in 1907 never happened. That the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which the First Labour Government adopted in 1947, thereby signalling this country’s emergence into full and independent nationhood, is but a figment of our historians’ imaginations.
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Key and Slater turn NZers against politicians and bloggers
One of the tactics used by far right political fixer Simon Lusk is to raise the hatred and spite of politics so much that people turn away from it ensuring a low voter turn out which always favours the right.
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The Secret Dossier: Helen Clark isn’t the story – Key’s fear of Trust exposure is
The question is has Key himself benefitted from this? The Icelandic PM has been caught out having a trust in the very banks he was supposed to be legislating against. Does John Key have a conflict of interest in keeping trust law murky because he has two ‘blind’ trusts?
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Raise the flag – and bear it
Where institutional power is so comprehensively unresponsive to the citizens, the voices of opposition must be organised and that organisation sustained.
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