The War on News: Oil Over Palestine, Luxon’s Weak Letter & Climate Capitulation

This week on The War on News, Martyn Bradbury takes aim at a government that recognises fossil fuels but not human rights, stunts over sincerity, and climate policy made for property developers. 🛢️ Palestine? No. Oil? Absolutely. This government refuses to recognise Palestine — but will recognise oil and gas exploration. Because nothing says “values-driven leadership” like embracing carbon emissions while turning a blind eye to occupation and genocide. What’s next? Rights for cancer? Sympathy for zombies? Cabinet seats for the Klan? 📩 Luxon’s Weak & Cheap Letter: The Prime Minister sent a ‘sincere’ plea to Chris Hipkins begging Labour not to overturn his oil exploration plans — and leaked it to media before Hipkins could respond. It wasn’t diplomacy. It was desperation. When your environmental policy is so fragile you have to pre-emptively beg the opposition not to reverse it, you’re not leading — you’re lobbying. 🏚️ Climate responsibility: it’s your fault now. New research from the University of Auckland slams the government’s fragmented, market-driven climate “leadership.” Policy has been devolved to homeowners and insurers, narrowing climate response to protecting property — not people or the planet. The hypocrisy’s hot, the planet’s hotter. It’s not news. It’s the War on News.