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A Nation In Denial: Why Israel’s Defeat Is Imminent
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 3:41 pm | Ramzy Baroud
They continue to reference and recycle old religious dogmas, while fervently praying for miracles. In doing so, they insist on reconstructing a new 'Fantasy Israel', which, of course, is set to collapse, as fantasies often do. More >>
New Zealand’s Shameful Modern Slavery Shutdown
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 6:26 pm | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses the government’s shameful response to modern slavery in New Zealand. More >>
Trump's Victory, Authoritarians & Trade Warriors
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 1:55 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Trump's victory may bring some relief for the leaders of three authoritarian, pro-China, Southeast Asian nations -- Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia. His tough threats are expected to intimidate Asians hoping to move to the U.S. or profit from Chinese-U.S. trade. More >>
On The Hikoi Aftermath
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
The euphoria from yesterday’s hikoi may be transitory, but is no less valuable for that. It is pretty rare for the left to feel itself to be in the overwhelming majority, and speaking as the voice of the people. And, in business speak, the hikoi ... More >>
COP29 Erasure Story Update – All's Well That Ends Well
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 7:27 pm | Alastair Thompson
The justification for the changes was the same: There is no current UNFCCC “mandate” for the filming & publication of press conferences other than those of the Presidency, nor of other events held by civil society actors within the complex – even though ... More >>
Thank You For Emitting: The Hypocrisies Of COP29
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 1:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
COP29 was always going to be memorable, for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. It has seen its natural gas supply grow by 128% between 2000 ... More >>
On The Hikoi Arrival, And Tyler Childers
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
National's actions in regard to the Treaty Principles Bill debate indicates their actions they’re more keen on stoking rather than healing society’s racial/economic divisions. What could possibly go wrong? More >>
COP29 Erasure – COP29 Media Center Crippled
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 1:32 am | Alastair Thompson
The official video record of COP29 is being erased every 12 hours & nobody here knows. More >>
End Of Empathy: Did The Gaza Genocide Render The UN Irrelevant?
Monday, 18 November 2024, 11:55 am | Ramzy Baroud
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is not the first person to express deep frustration with the institutional, let alone the moral collapse of the UN, or the inability of the institution to affect any kind of tangible change, especially during ... More >>
Physician Associates: A ‘Solution’ Desperately Searching For A Problem
Sunday, 17 November 2024, 10:17 pm | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses the controversy over the attempt by US physician associates in New Zealand to be registered under the Health Competence Assurance Act. More >>
Natural Resources And Palestinian Sovereignty: Israel’s Further Isolation
Sunday, 17 November 2024, 9:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While disease, hunger and death continue to stalk the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank remains under the thick thumb of occupation, deliberations in foreign fora continue to take place about how to address this hideous state of affairs. More >>
Look Out Rocks … Oops Too Late
Friday, 15 November 2024, 1:50 pm | Jim Mikoz
We live in a country surrounded by reefs & rocks. In recent years 3 large ships have hit rocks in our territorial waters: the MS Mikhail Lermontov, MV Rena, & now the NZ Navy warship the HMNZS Manawanui. The common denominator to all three of these More >>
Blinken Atrocious In A Dangerous World
Friday, 15 November 2024, 1:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Biden administration, through the good offices of Blinken, continues to insist on the vitality of the US imperium. But US hegemony long left unchallenged is, most certainly, at an end. More >>
What Being “Inward Looking” Really Means
Friday, 15 November 2024, 1:32 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As the saying goes, “We have met the enemy, and they are us.” Evil forces exist within, not without, so they must first be faced and met inwardly before the rotten structures of society can be remedied outwardly. More >>
On The Folly Of Making Apologies In A Social Vacuum.
Friday, 15 November 2024, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
We’re faced with six more months of “debate” about our founding document. as the the Treaty Principles Bill hits the house. Maybe I blinked, but there didn’t seem to be any public debate about why the circa 200,000 victims of state “care” More >>
National And Labour Combine To Shut Out Greens
Friday, 15 November 2024, 9:42 am | Peter Dunne
It is probably just a coincidence that National’s and Labour’s broad agreement was announced just a week after the Wellington tunnels decision and the Green Party’s response, but it does change the political component quite considerably. More >>
Voting Against Genocide - How Gaza Defeated The Democratic Establishment
Thursday, 14 November 2024, 3:10 pm | Ramzy Baroud
It is time to build on the existing solidarity among all American groups that voted against genocide in the latest elections. More >>
BBC Goes Full Goebbels In Support Of Israeli Soccer Hooligans
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 3:47 pm | Eugene Doyle
The BBC has proven itself to be an outrageously false & misleading outlet, peddling anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian propaganda dressed up as concern over anti-semitism. It has desecrated the memory of real victims – and most importantly it has shredded ... More >>
They Were There First: Election Denialism, The Democratic Way
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 1:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Instead of vanishing as aberrant over the Biden years, Trumpism has come home to roost in winning, not only the Electoral College but the majority vote by convincing margins. More >>
Self-knowing Is The Gateway To Liberation And Transmutation
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 10:49 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A revolution in consciousness may happen in the near future, or take hundreds of years, but it is essential if humanity is to survive and live in basic harmony with the earth and universe. More >>
Google's Support For Democracy And Media In NZ | Part 2
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 6:29 am | Alastair Thompson
Scoop is not at all annoyed with Google about their current position on the Digital Bargaining Bill. For us the villains here are the two largest digital publishers, NZME and STUFF, who have pushed for this bill, unconcerned about the consequences ... More >>
The Remembrance Day Amnesia Racket
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 1:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The statement here is not “lest we forget” but “what should be remembered?” Corpses are only memorable if they are useful. The fallen serve as bricks and masonry for the next slaughter, engineered by war criminals, the negligent and the incompetent. More >>
Google's Support For Democracy And Media In NZ
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 1:36 pm | Alastair Thompson
Part 1: The Digital Media Bargaining Bill, NZME, STUFF & Google More >>
On The Crown’s Sorry Excuse For An Apology
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 12:20 pm | Gordon Campbell
The world over, politicians are finding “sorry” to be the easiest word. Without disclosing the size and formula of the monetary compensation that the government is prepared to offer to those abused while in state care, a mere apology verges on ... More >>
The Musings Of Shigeru Ishiba: Visions Of An Asian NATO
Monday, 11 November 2024, 1:16 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Kritenbrink’s analysis hardly gets away from the suspicion that the “latticework” theory of US security in the Indo-Pacific is but a form of NATO in embryo. More >>
From Thriving To Surviving: ‘Poster Child’ General Practice Struggle Symbolises Primary Care Crisis
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 7:42 pm | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses a crisis at a ‘poster child’ general practice in New Zealand as part of a wider primary care crisis. More >>
Criminalizing UNRWA: How Israel Is Delegitimizing The United Nations
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 3:21 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Israel followed its decision by attacking and damaging an UNRWA office in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. It was the Israeli government's way of demonstrating its seriousness regarding the matter. More >>
The Price Of Eggs: Why Harris Lost To Trump
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 1:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
From the start, the Democrats had tied themselves in knots by convincing President Joe Biden that he could not only last the tenure of his office but run against Trump. Doing so, and deriding those wishing to see a change in the guard, created a needless ... More >>
The Triumph Of The Swill
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 12:25 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Besides echoing Trump’s “Fight, Fight, Fight” attitude, a main theme of the Harris campaign, a line Kamala repeated ad nauseum, as Presidents Biden and Obama also repeated ad nauseum, was “This is not who we are.” More >>
On Abortion’s Role In The US Election
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 10:11 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday, America moved decisively to the right not only politically, but socially and economically. This rightwards shift was evident not merely in the red states and seven “battleground” states, but also in the Democratic heartland. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 8:13 am | Peter Dunne
For all the pious talk, this election cycle has not been the showcase for democracy Americans might wish. It has left the United States more divided than at any point since the end of the Civil War in 1865. More >>
Fast-Tracking Wealth Accumulation And The War On Nature
Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 7:42 pm | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses the Fast-Track Approvals Bill currently before the New Zealand Parliament. It discusses the core driver behind this intent to disregard environmental protections in economic development and infrastructure. More >>
Ruthless Settlements: BHP, Brazil And The Samarco Fundão Dam Class Action
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 1:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Even now, BHP’s mild description of the catastrophe is given a coolly confident assessment. The company’s website notes that since the dam breach, Samarco operates “with a strong focus on safety and sustainability.” More >>
On US Voter Suppression, Plus The Races To Watch
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 12:05 pm | Gordon Campbell
US election results tend to start rolling in around 1pm on Wednesday. As our television relays images of long lines of people queuing to vote, keep this in mind: since 2012, America has closed 20% of its polling places. More >>
South Africa’s Memorial To The ICJ: More Evidence On Israel’s Genocide
Sunday, 3 November 2024, 7:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
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, ... More >>
‘If You Don’t Have Hope, You Can’t Have A Strategy’
Saturday, 2 November 2024, 5:38 am | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses how our health system got into the mess it presently finds itself in and how it might get out of it. More >>
On America’s Fear Of Foreigners
Friday, 1 November 2024, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
For the past eight years though, Donald Trump has been selling a stunted vision of America. The tens of millions of Americans who comprise Trump Nation have been told to cower in fear of immigrants. More >>
Religious Experiencing Without Religion
Friday, 1 November 2024, 10:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Yet religions would not exist without the intermediation of text and tradition, as well as some form of priestly class. Even Buddhists have their own priests and nuns. Therefore religions impede, if not deny, the very experiencing of sacredness that ... More >>
‘Gaza Is Ours, Forever’ - Israel’s Extremists Have A Plan For The Day After The Genocide
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 2:52 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Israel is a settler-colonial society, which has linked its colonial expansion to religious diktats and prophecies. So the forced departure from Gaza, to most of these settlers, must have appeared to represent both national treason and a sacrilegious ... More >>
Virtuous, Smug And Venal: British Electoral Interference In The US
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 1:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
US politics remain a matter of enormous importance to the UK. Interfering in US elections is a habit that dies hardest of all. More >>
Volunteers Run Our Emergency Services
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 10:27 am | Peter Dunne
The United Fire Brigades Association (UFBA) represents the country’s more than 12,000 urban and rural volunteer firefighters and emergency workers. Volunteers account for around 86% of all firefighters and cover 93% of the national landmass. More >>
Cattle Dog Gusto: How Bluey Conquered The United States
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 1:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The series in question, Bluey, features an Australian dog of the Blue Heeler variety: one Bluey, a six-year-old cattle dog who lives in the Queensland city of Brisbane with sister Bingo, and parents Bandit and Chilli. More >>
On Why So Many Young Males Like Donald Trump
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 11:04 am | Gordon Campbell
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. Just over half of young men – and especially those without a college degree – intend voting for Trump. More >>
Stepping Into The Vacuum, Or Just Stepping Into It?
Monday, 28 October 2024, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
At the nadir of man, thinking and feeling human beings with genuinely global worldviews matter now more than ever, and must step into the vacuum. More >>
The Long History Of Palestine - Why Palestinians Are Winning The Legitimacy War
Monday, 28 October 2024, 9:37 am | Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s frustration is understandable because, like all military occupiers of the past, Tel Aviv continues to believe that the right quantity of violence should be enough to subdue colonized nations. More >>
Crippling UNRWA: The Knesset’s Collective Punishment Of Palestinians
Saturday, 26 October 2024, 3:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Israel’s efforts to malign and cripple UNRWA remains a vital part of the agenda of murderous collective punishment, one used against a people seen more as mute serfs and submissive animals than sovereign beings entitled to rights and protections. More >>
Political Labelling: The EU’s Legal Stance On Goods From Israel’s Illegal Settlements
Friday, 25 October 2024, 2:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A 2015 policy brief from the European Council on Foreign Relations describes it as “a de facto policy of differentiating between Israel and settlement activities in the Occupied Territories within its bilateral relations.” More >>
Hanging In The Balance
Friday, 25 October 2024, 10:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Trump’s re-election after Biden interregnum will certainly be the end of America as the world has known it, and with it US-made international order. The question is, what will take its place - more fragmentation, disorder and authoritarianism, ... More >>
Israel’s Biblical Wars Of ‘Self Defense’: The Myth Of The ‘Seven War Fronts’
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 2:21 pm | Ramzy Baroud
There is a difference between a country fighting a defensive war on multiple fronts and another fighting for colonial expansion, for regional hegemony and for military dominance driven by religious prophecies. More >>
On Dissing Wellington, And Porridge Radio
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 11:26 am | Gordon Campbell
National has never forgiven Wellington – or its public servants – for voting for Labour and the Greens. (Red-blooded Kiwis work in the private sector.) No surprise then to find a right wing central government being willing to kick the Capital when ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Time To Dump The Electoral Integrity Act!
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 8:59 am | Peter Dunne
Tana was expelled because an internal argument with the Green Party over her family’s business affairs led her to resign from the party. More >>
Stifling The Sikh Diaspora: India’s Continuing War On Khalistan
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 2:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The response from New Delhi was one of unbridled indignation. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal claimed that Canada had “presented us no evidence whatsoever in support of the serious allegations it has chosen to level ... More >>
On The Three Strikes Cycle Of Failure
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 12:18 pm | Gordon Campbell
We all know the “tough on crime” approach is only a stop gap measure at best, and that a justice model based on incarceration doesn’t work. Our prisons are already overcrowded, under-staffed and more often than not, function as training centres ... More >>
Languages In Hospital
Monday, 21 October 2024, 9:58 pm | David Cooke
Language use often excites people’s passions and regularly results in very misleading interpretations, so this seems a good time to air out several issues. More >>
Weak Endeavours: The Meekness Of Australia’s Anti-Corruption Body
Monday, 21 October 2024, 7:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For a body that offered so much promise, the Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has failed to impress. Instead of restoring trust in the public service and politics, the Commission has shown a lack of appetite to pursue its broader More >>
Widening The War: The US Sends Troops To Israel
Sunday, 20 October 2024, 1:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In a measure that should have garnered bold headlines, the Biden administration has announced the deployment of some 100 US soldiers to Israel who will be responsible for operating the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. More >>
Heroes Not Felons: The Climate Change Activists Leading The Way By Scaling The Fonterra Factory Walls
Friday, 18 October 2024, 3:51 pm | Lynley Tulloch
If we want a habitable world for not only humans, but all species of animals and plants, then we need to take climate change seriously. Techno-fixes and offsetting carbon schemes are at best fanciful and at worst distracting from what is a dire ... More >>
Beethoven’s 7th And Conducting Beauty Beyond The Mind Of Man
Friday, 18 October 2024, 12:28 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
His performance (a word at once too small and too big for Kleiber) is an expression of not only his joy, but also an ineffable bliss flowing through him, giving literal meaning to the phrase “music of the spheres.” More >>
Nuclear Fever: War Mongering On Iran
Friday, 18 October 2024, 6:45 am | Binoy Kampmark
The nuclear option is now available to governments that should never have had them. But acquiring the dangerously untenable followed. To assume that brutal, amputation loving theocrats in Tehran should not have them defies the trajectory of a certain ... More >>
‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ - My Sister Was The 166th Doctor To Be Murdered In Gaza
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 2:31 pm | Ramzy Baroud
I wrote about Soma as a central character in my book "My Father Was a Freedom Fighter", because she was indeed central to our lives, and to our very survival in a Gaza refugee camp. More >>
