How do we counter Trumpism?
How do we counter the right-wing populist currents emerging in several Western countries? The Trump victory shows that backing a liberal establishment alternative, like Hillary Clinton, is not a successful strategy.
politics
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On Dawkins’ “New Athens” Proposal – Unclean, Algal-Green, And Anti-Intellectualism
On Friday, word reached us that the world’s foremost obstreperous atheist, Richard Dawkins, appears to be advocating we open our borders to the world’s “creative intellectuals” in a bid to make New Zealand a ‘new Athens’ for the ‘Trump era’.
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Of course the US Election was rigged and here’s the evidence
Republicans purged electoral rolls in all the battleground States Trump needed to win. The numbers are damning.
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MUST READ SUNDAY: Interview With A President
MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON. A chill autumn wind, laced with rain, sweeps across the reflecting pool at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial. The water is agitated: the reflection of the Washington Monument’s towering obelisk fluid and fragmentary. The National Mall has wrapped the darkness of this bleak November night tightly around itself like a comforter.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Trumped, Stumped and Dumped
Trump won because the working class was divided and subordinated by the Democrats, the unions led by the labor bureaucrats and the fake left that always sucks up to the Democrats. Being locked into electoral politics prevents the working class from uniting around an independent class program to overthrow capitalism.
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EXCLUSIVE Neil Watts Investigation: Dirty Politics in Mt Roskill – guess which Rightwing news outlet are still neck deep in enabling National’s dirty tricks
Did the NZ Herald just slur Labour’s Mt Roskill by-election candidate based on National Party lies?
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Why there should be no business with Israel
From 29 May 29 to 1 June 2016, more than 50 New Zealand business people, led by Spark CEO Simon Moutter, were guests at a trade mission in Israel, organised by the Israel Trade Commission and Trans-Tasman Business Circle. Described as the ‘innovation mission’, the purpose was to encourage collaboration between the governments of Israel and New Zealand and their respective business interests.
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MUST READ: Why Hillary deserved to lose
We are told there is no alternative. The so-called “progressives” in social democratic parties then appeal to the centre by adopting the rhetoric of the right wing opposition by being “tough” on law and order and “tough” on welfare cheats, and “tough” on immigrants. They assume that because working people have no where else to go they can abuse us as much as they like.
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Is there actually anyone awake in the NZ Labour or Green Party?
If the Greens could perhaps stop self mutilating the launch of their new candidate and if Labour could possibly stop picking fights with one of NZs most respected TV Journalists, Professor Richard Dawkins is on the phone…
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Patrick Gower at his journalistic best?
As the Republic of America begins to unravel in the wake of the shock election by Trump, the Fourth estate, our democratic watchdog of the powerful, are attempting to decipher the meaning and the anger of the decision.