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Killing Bazaars: The Land Forces Expo Down Under
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 10:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The protest outfit Disrupt Land Forces, one that so far boasts 50 different activist collectives, has been gathering some steam. More >>
Resolving The Problem Of Evil
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 12:06 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
At the peak of the meditation, when the mind had grown wholly still and present, a trio of river otters submarined by, heading upstream. River otters are as rare as coyotes in Lower Park, but here they were, totally adapted to the environment, ... More >>
Erdan’s War On The UN: The Brutal Wish Of Failed Israel Diplomat
Saturday, 14 September 2024, 11:54 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Even if the angry Israeli diplomat gets his wish, nothing will alter this historic truth: Israel will remain a colonial regime, and Palestine will continue to resist, till justice is finally restored. More >>
Labour Risks Fouling Up Tax Policy - Again
Saturday, 14 September 2024, 11:54 pm | Peter Dunne
Over recent elections, tax policy has proven to be Labour’s Achilles Heel. More >>
Puberty Blockers And The Hippocratic Oath
Saturday, 14 September 2024, 11:53 pm | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses, in the context of the approach to be taken in New Zealand, the Cass Review of puberty blockers and the importance of applying the Hippocratic Oath. More >>
Childish Fantasies: Age Verification for Social Media Down Under
Saturday, 14 September 2024, 1:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Instead of encouraging fine circumspection and growing maturity, these laws encourage comforting insularity and prolonged immaturity. More >>
A Return To Form: Expediting US Arms To Israel
Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:27 pm | Binoy Kampmark
August proved to be the second busiest month for US arms deliveries to Israel’s Nevatim Airbase since the October 2023 attacks by Hamas. More >>
Protecting The Widow Maker: The US Marines Exonerate The Osprey
Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Osprey has pride of place in a military force that specialises in lethal aviation mishaps during training and routine operations. More >>
Meditation Is Mutation
Friday, 13 September 2024, 12:13 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Does mutation mean the irrevocable ending in the brain of thought as the ground of our existence, subsumed by attention and awareness? More >>
Ailing Wellington Needs More Than Frothy Talk
Friday, 13 September 2024, 8:54 am | Peter Dunne
Something clearly must give. Carrying on the same way as the last few years will do nothing to arrest Wellington’s decline. Rather than throwing rocks at each other, the government and the city’s civic leaders must start working together, if the ... More >>
Protecting The Merchants Of Death: The Police Effort For Land Forces 2024
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
September 11. Melbourne. The scene: the area between Spencer Street Bridge and the Batman Park-Spencer Street tram stop. Heavily armed police, with glinting face coverings and shields, had seized and blocked the bridge over the course of the morning, preventing ... More >>
Cartography Of Genocide: Why Netanyahu Erased Palestine From The Map
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 1:13 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When asked why his latest map has erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable answer. “I didn’t include the Dead Sea. It’s not shown on the map. I didn’t show the Jordan River. ... More >>
On Luxon And Seymour’s Good Cop/Bad Cop Routine On The Treaty
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 12:00 pm | Gordon Campbell
This past week has seen the coalition of chaos in fully dysfunctional mode. In the last six days, ACT and NZF have had two strikingly different responses to two strikingly similar problems in two key sectors of the economy: supermarkets and energy companies. More >>
Gordon Campbell On Funding New Drugs, And Governing In Bad Faith
Tuesday, 10 September 2024, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
Almost a year on, National's campaign trail promises “to reduce the cost of living, restore law and order and improve our schools and healthcare” haven’t worn very well, have they? More >>
Beware The Derogators: The Geneva Conventions Turn 75
Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 12:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Better, it would seem, a world with the Geneva Conventions than one without them. What is needed, Policinski reminds us, “is not more or different rules” but “better respect for existing rules, something all states have a stake in.” More >>
Anthropomorphism Is No Longer The Issue; Misanthropy Is
Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 12:04 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The misanthropic desire for the extinction of the human race, under the pretense of humility and the deconstruction of anthropocentrism, belies a deep disrespect for life and evolution. More >>
From Financial Illiteracy Smear To Understanding Healthcare Complexities; History Repeating Or Rhyming?
Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 8:04 pm | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses the smearing of the Health NZ Board, the dual complexities of health systems, the relevance of the subsidiarity principle, and asks whether history is repeating or rhyming. More >>
Gordon Campbell On How "fast Track" Steamrolls The Public Good
Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 12:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
New Zealand has a habit of creating official posts – the Overseas Investment Office, the Banking Ombudsman, the Grocery Commissioner – as a sop to public concerns, but where the terms of reference guarantee that such posts won't interfere unduly ... More >>
Mike Lynch, Probability And The Cyber Industrial Complex
Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 7:44 am | Binoy Kampmark
It began as a devastating, confined storm off the coast of Sicily, striking the luxury yacht Bayesian in the form of a devastating water column resembling a tornado. More >>
AI Will Liberate Us From Thought Or Completely Enslave Us To It
Monday, 26 August 2024, 10:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Why are humans petty creatures of thought when we can be noble human beings of awareness? More >>
Warmonger Confessions: More Frankness On AUKUS
Sunday, 25 August 2024, 2:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For those who hold the reins in Canberra, the march to war amidst the false sounding notes of peace is not only inevitable but desirable. More >>
Apologists For Rape: The Sde Teiman Protests
Friday, 23 August 2024, 12:52 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The unit was also involved in a violent disruption at the Sde Teiman military base in the Negev desert, where detained Palestinians from the Gaza Strip had been subjected to various forms of torture and maltreatment. More >>
Before The Bubble Bursts And The Wave Breaks
Friday, 23 August 2024, 11:21 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When a democracy begins to slide into fascism, only a reckoning with the darkness and deadness at its core that’s giving rise to despotism can arrest the degeneration. More >>
Prolonging Genocide As A Smokescreen: On Israel’s Other War In The West Bank
Friday, 23 August 2024, 5:06 am | Ramzy Baroud
While Israel is extending its failed military campaign in the Strip with no clear strategic objectives, its war on the West Bank is driven by clear strategic motives: the annexation of the West Bank and the ethnic cleansing of large sectors of the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Plague Of The Seymourites
Thursday, 22 August 2024, 1:27 pm | Gordon Campbell
David Seymour is like one of those American Televangelists. He is now building his own temple of bureaucracy...and it shall be known as the Ministry of Regulation and many regulations previously passed to protect the consumer, environment, and the More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Luxon's Tough Talk One-sided
Thursday, 22 August 2024, 8:54 am | Peter Dunne
Beyond that and arguably more worryingly, the government’s refusal to act also sends a clear message that at least so far as culture and heritage is concerned this government has no interest in upholding the well-being responsibility it is about ... More >>
Violating The Sherman Act: Google’s Illegal Monopoly
Wednesday, 21 August 2024, 12:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Judge Amit P. Mehta of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia found that Google acted as a monopoly in its “general search” and “general search text advertising” markets and had breached Section 2 of the Sherman Act ... More >>
Outremer In Palestine: Lessons From The Twelfth Century
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 6:41 pm | Keith Rankin
If we see Israel as a settler-colonial proxy for its Christian patron, the United States of America, then the current events in the Holy Land can very much be understood as a post-medieval Crusade. More >>
Price Of The CIA's Secret War In Laos
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 4:07 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Air Force Sgt. David Price, disguised in civilian clothes as a Lockheed employee, was operating a "classified CIA" mountaintop navigation beacon in Laos for U.S. planes bombing Communist North Vietnamese troops when he ... More >>
The Illegality And Immorality Of The Israeli Annihilation Of Gaza - A Thread By Ori Goldberg
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 3:55 pm | Ori Goldberg
It is illegal and morally corrupt to bring about such annihilation as "collateral damage" incurred in "the destruction of Hamas". It is criminal and morally corrupt to continue to kill civilians after ordering their evacuation to "safe zones" that ... More >>
Chicago Authorities Want A “Conversation” With The Poor People’s Army About The DNC 2024
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 3:23 pm | Ann Garrison - BAR Contributing Editor
The Poor People’s Army has a permit to march to the steps of the Democratic National Convention in August, but now Chicago authorities want to have a “conversation” with them. More >>
Federal Judge Rules Against Coalition To March On The DNC 2024
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 2:51 pm | Ann Garrison - BAR Contributing Editor
The coalition wanted to march for 2.3 miles on wide streets that pass alongside the convention center, but the city’s route confines them to 1.1 miles, largely on narrow streets and several blocks from the convention center. More >>
Gordon Campbell On Why Workers Get Treated As Disposable
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 12:16 pm | Gordon Campbell
National is willing to waste time and money on supporting Act's Treaty Bill's first reading and sending it to a select committee – where more time and money will be wasted on public submissions and on committee hearings that are bound to receive ... More >>
Now, Or Not Now: That Is The Question
Monday, 19 August 2024, 2:54 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The human heart will catch fire at some point, and change the disastrous course of man. Even so, there is tremendous urgency. For there are a finite number of chances to change course, and we won’t know until we’ve made the turn, or blown by the ... More >>
Wellness As Tyranny: The Cult Of Toxic Happiness
Monday, 19 August 2024, 12:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Unhappiness has become the hunted enemy, and stomped upon. The time has come for a constructive sense of informed unhappiness to take over, the sulky, the gravely sullen and the profoundly introspective to have their time in necessary bleakness. ... More >>
Words Vs Action: To End Armed Conflicts, Restrict Global Arms Trade
Monday, 19 August 2024, 8:51 am | Ramzy Baroud
The great irony is that some of the loudest advocates of human rights are, in fact, the ones who are facilitating the global arms trade. Without it, human rights would not be violated with such impunity. More >>
The Distasteful Nonsense Of Olympism
Sunday, 18 August 2024, 3:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Games are events of pompous political significance, with athletes often being administrative and symbolic extensions of the nation state they represent. More >>
Tactical Paranoia: Peter Dutton’s Palestinian Problem
Friday, 16 August 2024, 12:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Coalition opposition to granting visas to Palestinians voicing support for Hamas is also implausible in another respect. While claiming to be defenders of that most weaselly of terms, “social cohesion”, Dutton and his stormtroopers seek to demolish ... More >>
Content-Consciousness Is The Impediment To Cosmic Consciousness
Friday, 16 August 2024, 12:27 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The first thing we have to admit is that consciousness is not “evolving.” Consciousness as we know it cannot evolve; it can only accumulate. More >>
Restoring Fear – Why Israeli Soldiers Rape
Friday, 16 August 2024, 8:06 am | Ramzy Baroud
If popular resistance is indeed the process of the restoration of the self, Palestinians in Gaza are proving that, despite their unspeakable pain and agony, they are emerging as a whole, ready to clinch their freedom, no matter the cost. More >>
The Political Banishment Of Popular Pita Limjaroenrat
Thursday, 15 August 2024, 7:15 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Mr. Pita is widely seen as pro-U.S. at a time when Washington is competing with Beijing to influence this nation's capitalist economy, poorly disciplined military, and Bangkok's attempts to balance its diplomatic relations with both superpowers. More >>
A Personal Tax Credit (PTC) Of $150 For New Zealand
Thursday, 15 August 2024, 5:45 pm | Keith Rankin
My proposal is to pay a personal tax credit of $150 per week to every New Zealand resident aged over 18. More >>
On ACT’s Takeover Of The Government Agenda
Thursday, 15 August 2024, 1:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
The ACT Party won only 8.6% of the vote last year, so how come it seems to be driving about 75% of the government’s agenda? It helps ACT’s cause that Christopher Luxon is so incompetent, and such a pushover. Earlier this week, Luxon just couldn’t ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: National's Quiet Achiever
Thursday, 15 August 2024, 8:37 am | Peter Dunne
In every government there is a quiet achiever – a Minister who just gets on with the job and gets things done, without fuss or fanfare, no matter what else is going on around them. In the current government, that Minister is Judith Collins. More >>
Department Of Mum And Dad
Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 6:00 pm | Keith Rankin
The principal private source of income support for young adults is the Department of Mum and Dad. (The second most important source of private income support is charity; the third most important source is begging and other forms of recipient-initiated ... More >>
Bloody Eschatology: Israel And The Next Big War
Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 1:13 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The push towards an all-out war in the Middle East is moving out of its sleepwalking phase to that of conscious eschatological reckoning. More >>
Will Israel Use Its Nukes On Iran?
Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The so-called international rules-based order is collapsing around us and on us. More >>
Resisting AUKUS: The Paul Keating Formula
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 5:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark
From his own redoubt of critical inquiry, the former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has made fighting the imperialising leprosy of the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the UK and the United States a matter of solemn duty. More >>
On The Crackdown On The Beneficiary Poor
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 1:39 pm | Gordon Campbell
For the past 50 years, the centre-right has been using beneficiaries as a political punching bag. But now unemployment is at a three high and rising, helped along by the government’s deliberately trashing the jobs of thousands of public servants. More >>
Towards An Economy Based On Provision Of Human Needs
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 11:58 am | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses transitioning from an economy driven by wealth accumulation based on exchange-values to one driven by the provision of human needs based on use-values. It includes drawing upon the Covid 19 pandemic and increased ecological risk. More >>
Venezuela: Presidential Candidates And Political Parties Submit Electoral Evidence To Supreme Court
Monday, 12 August 2024, 7:14 pm | Venezuelanalysis.com
The high court will review information submitted by electoral authorities and political parties to clarify the presidential election results. More >>
This Is The Foreseeable Future
Monday, 12 August 2024, 11:50 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Man may end with a bang or a whimper, but we cannot know the future beyond its present undeniable arc. More >>
AUKUS Revamped: The Complete Militarisation Of Australia
Saturday, 10 August 2024, 4:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The deeper incorporation of Australia’s own military requirements into the US military complex “across land, maritime, air, and space domains, as well as the Combined Logistics, Sustainment, and Maintenance Enterprise” will allow US military forces ... More >>
Message From Health Professionals To Health Bosses: Please Stop The Spin
Saturday, 10 August 2024, 4:16 pm | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses the frustration of health professionals in New Zealand over spin doctoring by the system’s leadership and the need for this to stop More >>
Die While You’re Alive
Friday, 9 August 2024, 2:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Indeed, dying every day while fully alive not only makes life much more vibrant; it opens the door to the sacredness that suffuses the earth and the universe. But self and man must psychologically die for that to be. More >>
On Making Profits From The Ferries Fiasco
Friday, 9 August 2024, 11:49 am | Gordon Campbell
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has taken a ton of flak for not having a Plan B in place before she cancelled Kiwirail’s contract for the new Cook Strait ferries. Yet maybe her own Plan A all along has been to use a public private partnership (PPP) ... More >>
Team Genocide Walks Out On Nagasaki Commemorations
Friday, 9 August 2024, 9:05 am | Eugene Doyle
Last week the mayor of Nagasaki, Shiro Suzuki, rescinded Israel’s invitation to the annual peace ceremony commemorating the 1945 US nuclear bombing of his city. This week several Western countries announced their ambassadors would shun the commemorations of that bombing in solidarity with Israel. More >>
Zionism On The Brink: The Gaza War Beyond Netanyahu
Friday, 9 August 2024, 9:04 am | Ramzy Baroud
Even if the Israeli right has lost all faith in Netanyahu, without him as a unifying figure, all is lost, not only the chances of the far-right camp to redeem itself, but also the very future of Zionism. More >>
Tim Walz For Veep: Barely Noticed Or Noticeable
Thursday, 8 August 2024, 12:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Walz may have an advantage insofar as he is utterly unknown to the voters that will swing the election. Outside his state, he is clean, cold tabula rasa and utterly without distinction. The figure of no record can create something anew. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Vested Interests Do Not Make For Good Policy Outcomes
Thursday, 8 August 2024, 8:15 am | Peter Dunne
Too often, an apparent concern for good public policy is really a cover for the protection of vested interests. In a small and intimate society like New Zealand this can make it difficult for governments to reach the best decisions on critical issues. More >>
