GUEST BLOG: Auckland community campaign SOUL: Who profits from the land wars?
Effects on Māori communities — including mana whenua of Ihumātao — from land confiscation were far reaching and devastating, and are now finally well-documented
politics
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Cullen and Reddy don’t make a convincing case for the spy agencies
The best way out of this confict of interest is for the government’s cybersecurity unit to be independent of the GCSB and any relevant GCSB personnel and equipment to be transferred to the new unit.
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Sweet Jesus – I agree with Judith Collins – It’s time to crack down on guns
The surge in guns is deeply linked to meth – without acknowledging that, an inquiry would be pretty pointless.
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When Nick Smith said making every river swimmable ‘was not practical’ did a little bit of you die?
This is the NZ National voters have built.
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Q+A review
Corin Dann has Bill English on, Bill’s boring enough to make everything seem fine. Needed to be taken to task on the Government’s cheerleading of Dairy transformation. English could make the second coming of Christ seem dull.
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When will the Media start blaming the Government for Dairy intensification?
The truth is this Government were cheerleaders of the dairy intensification and now it’s fallen over no one is going to blame them for it.
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Why the ‘protections’ in new spy bill are totally meaningless
A modern day stasi that answers to the NSA doesn’t make our democracy safer, it makes it far more dangerous.
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You can’t say the things Trump says and not expect violence
The violence that erupted at a Trump rally in Chicago can be no real surprise.
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GUEST BLOG: Josie Butler – Why I attacked the TPPA roadshow
This week marks the beginning of the Government’s national roadshow on the TPPA, a roadshow that was meant to address the people of New Zealand’s questions and concerns regarding this ‘trade agreement’, with a focus on public consultation.
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What Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have in common
The prominence of trade as an election issue surprised many mainstream pundits as they didn’t think voters were smart enough to understand the corporate hegemonic structures that rob them of a quality of life.