Book Reviews | Gordon Campbell | Scoop News | Wellington Scoop | Community Scoop | Search
Raw Video: National Party leader Don Brash today announced his taxation policy.
© Scoop Media
Scoop Independent News
Scoop is NZ's largest independent news source; respected widely in media, political, business and academic circles for being the place on the internet for publishing "what was really said", and for the quality of its analysis of issues.
The BHP Group, as with other mining giants, has much explaining to do in the way it has approached the environment. It has become a master of the greenwashing experiment, an adept promoter of sham environmental responsibility and, it transpired recently, a ruthless negotiator and litigant over contentious claims.
For the past eight years, Donald Trump has been selling a stunted xenophobic vision of America.
Acts and omissions by Israel, argued the South African government, were alleged to be of a “genocidal” nature, “committed with the requisite specific intent … to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza as part of the broader Palestinian national, national, racial and ethnical group”.
Ian Powell discusses how our health system got into the mess it presently finds itself in and how it might get out of it.
What matters is what one puts first: scriptures, or seeing for oneself; belief, or actual experiencing; insight, or the accretions of theology? If one opts to remain in a religious tradition, one has to hold it lightly, mining for insight while being mindful that texts and traditions are never the truth, but at best an echo of the truth.
Some clues to the allure of Trumpism can be found in the gender gap of unprecedented size that has opened up between those in the 18-29 age group.