Rest in Revolution Fidel Castro
A revolutionary hero just turned up at the pearly gates demanding a meeting with the workers – Rest in Revolution Fidel.
politics
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The National Community: Why Populism in New Zealand is a Right-Wing Thing
BRYCE EDWARDS AND JOHN MOORE have taken the country-and-western melodies of populism and over-dubbed them with their own revolutionary lyrics. But, the resulting songs will never be sung by populists. Revolutionaries, too, are unlikely to find the Edwards/Moore mash-up inspirational. In the final analysis, revolution should be about overturning and replacing the existing order. Populism, in almost every instance, is about restoring the old one.
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Security Council members leave Gaza to bleed
As Israeli Gaza ceasefire violations this year top 1,000, the International Criminal Court (ICC) exposes the “scope and degree of control” that the military Occupation exercises over Gaza.
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The war machine rolls on while children beg for blankets
Have you thought about the children of Syria lately? Is it ‘so last season’s war’, a normal state of affairs, background in the news as a change from more current, closer crises? Do the battles of Homs and Mosul, the Kurdish Peshmergers and the ‘Coalition’, sound slightly theoretically and strategically intriguing, like chess, or ‘Risk’, using someone else’s real life army and someone else’s real life country as the playing ground?
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Vigorous community campaign will fight state house sales in Christchurch
The government’s intention to sell up to 2,500 state houses in Christchurch can expect to be met with a vigorous community campaign to stop the sales.
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System protects corporate thieves, cheats, and killers
The government and IRD seem to get very brave when persecuting some small business person who falls on hard times but run away from a fight with the real big boys who dodge taxes.
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TDB SPECIAL: 1 year out from 2017 election – the Political Parties
With just 12 months until the 2017 election, where are we at and where will we be going into the 2017 election?
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Why we shouldn’t gag Brian Tamaki, Anwar Sahib or the slightly racist guy who looks like Santa
The desire to shut down people and demand they be silent is a pretty dangerous way to delegitimise a Democracy. When people feel they have no voice, they vote like they did in Brexit and with Trump.
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EXCLUSIVE: Whaleoil & Wahhabism — a perfect marriage
Perhaps, if the Muslim community gets its house in order, the Wahhabi sect can be attracted back towards a positive, active Muslim community.
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Why fake news hysteria by the msm is more elitist hypocrisy
People who are economically hurting and feeling excluded didn’t care about the facts and the legitimate news sources, they were overloaded on information and selected the candidate who didn’t make them feel belittled.