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On The Elections In France, Iran And Britain
Monday, 8 July 2024, 2:47 pm | Gordon Campbell
Despite hysterical prior media calls that the far right might win an absolute majority in France’s National Assembly, the outcome has been a victory for the left wing coalition, but also for Macron, the left’s unlikely second round ally. More >>
In Westminster At Last: The Threat Of Nigel Farage
Monday, 8 July 2024, 1:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Farage is already promising rapacious raids into enemy territory. “We are coming for Labour … be in no doubt about that.” While eschewing notions of working with the Conservatives, he offered an olive branch by way of invitation: Tory members ... More >>
Better-Paying Jobs In Israel's "Safe Areas"
Monday, 8 July 2024, 12:50 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
During the past 20 years, Thais have competed for the difficult jobs in Israel despite the instability and fighting. More >>
Massacre At The Ballot: The Punishing Of The Tories
Sunday, 7 July 2024, 3:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Given that Labour proved the largest beneficiary of a voting system that should only ever apply in a two-way contest and given the prospect of Reform and the Greens posing ever greater threats from either wing of politics, appetite for electoral reform ... More >>
Corporate General Practice Ownership Highlights Unintended Perverse Outcome
Sunday, 7 July 2024, 1:06 pm | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses how corporate ownership of general practices can, by abusing the capitation funding system, have detrimental consequences for primary healthcare in New Zealand. More >>
A Day Of Contrasts Between Darkness And Light
Friday, 5 July 2024, 12:24 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We have to look a lot deeper than “the battle between those who want to fix what is broken and those who want to keep breaking.” More >>
Sharon Revisited: Netanyahu’s Ultimate Aim In Gaza And Why It Will Fail
Friday, 5 July 2024, 9:05 am | Ramzy Baroud
Israel never learns from its mistakes. More >>
On Saving Journalists, Not An Industry That Routinely Exploits Them
Thursday, 4 July 2024, 12:01 pm | Gordon Campbell
Labour is saying it needs to listen. Apparently, Labour is going to spend 2024 listening, and 2025 thinking about its options. It could be 2026 before Labour finally reveals what it has in mind. Really? Currently, National and ACT are burning down the house, ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Never A Good Time To Be In Opposition
Thursday, 4 July 2024, 9:55 am | Peter Dunne
There are likely to be slim pickings for Opposition parties over most of the next three months for reasons that have little to do with politics. And there may not be all that much they can do about it because the reasons are beyond their control. More >>
The US Supreme Court Outs The Imperial Presidency
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 1:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The US Supreme Court has much to answer for. In the genius of republican government, it operates as overseer and balancer to the executive and legislature. Of late, the judges have seemingly confused that role. More >>
On Macron’s Gamble, And Biden’s Last Stand
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 10:55 am | Gordon Campbell
On Emmanuel Macron’s risky, rope-a-dope plan B strategy of deliberately opening a corridor to power for the far right, in the belief it will blunt Le Pen's appeal by the next presidential election in 2027. On Trump's new immunity from prosecution ... More >>
On Aid And War - How Israel Has Used Starvation To Subdue The Palestinians
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 7:15 am | Ramzy Baroud
Humanitarian aid should never be politicized though, quite often, the very survival of nations is used as political bargaining chips. More >>
Muzzling The Dogs Of War
Monday, 1 July 2024, 4:34 pm | Eugene Doyle
Listen to what the leaders in the West are saying. The time to stop the madness is now, not once the elites drive us into the abyss and civilians are stripped of all rights to oppose. More >>
Assange’s Return To Australia: The Resentment Of The Hacks
Monday, 1 July 2024, 1:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
His return to Australia after striking a plea deal with the US Department of Justice sees him in a state with some of the most onerous secrecy provisions of any in the Western world. More >>
Can A New Foundation Be Poured Before The Complete Collapse Of The International Order?
Monday, 1 July 2024, 11:21 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In short, the spiritual, philosophical and political foundation has to be poured before a collapse occurs to change course when it does. More >>
Hunted Biden: The First Presidential Debate Disaster
Sunday, 30 June 2024, 12:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While Donald Trump was always going to relish the chance to be not only economical with the truth but simply inventive about it, Joe Biden seemed a vanishing shadow, longing for soft slippers and the fireplace with cocoa, a case of comfort rather ... More >>
Keith Locke: Hard On Issues; Soft On People
Sunday, 30 June 2024, 11:57 am | Ian Powell
This is a tribute to the recently deceased Keith Locke who was much more than an influential Green MP in New Zealand. His whole life was around political and social justice advocacy. More >>
Won’t You Please Come To Chicago? Cheri Honkala On The Democratic National Convention
Sunday, 30 June 2024, 11:42 am | Ann Garrison - BAR Contributing Editor
The City of Chicago has inadvertently granted the Poor People’s Army a permit to march to the steps of the United Center during the Democratic National Convention. More >>
Gavin Newsom: Zionist In Waiting
Saturday, 29 June 2024, 1:17 pm | Ann Garrison - BAR Contributing Editor
The Democrats' rising star Gavin Newsom offers more of the same: Zionism and militarism. More >>
Assange’s Release: Exposing The Craven Media Stable
Friday, 28 June 2024, 3:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The WikiLeaks project was always going to put various noses out of joint in the journalistic profession. Soaked and blighted by sloth, easily bought, perennially envious, a good number of the Fourth Estate have always preferred to remain uncritical of power and ... More >>
The Altalena Affair: Is Israel Heading Towards A Civil War?
Friday, 28 June 2024, 1:18 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The story of the potential Israeli civil war is as old as the Israeli state itself, and recent comments by Netanyahu, suggesting otherwise, are yet another false claim by the prime minister. More >>
Man Is Dead; What Is The Way Ahead?
Friday, 28 June 2024, 10:22 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Is Buddhism as far removed from what Siddhartha lived and taught as Christianity has become from what Jesus lived and taught? Buddhism is a godless religion with which I have much sympathy, but little simpatico. I’m not using the word godless ... More >>
Justice Mander And Three Strikes
Friday, 28 June 2024, 8:52 am | Peter Dunne
Justice Mander effectively bypassed the jury’s decision that Dickason was guilty of the murder of her three infant daughters, with his comment that ““I am satisfied that your actions were the product of your mental disorder. I consider your severe ... More >>
On The Freeing Of Julian Assange
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
Finally, Julian Assange is free after 12 years of confinement. Yet ultimately, his freedom was conditional on a plea bargain charade whereby he admitted to a charge under the US Espionage Act that he had unlawfully solicited, obtained and distributed ... More >>
The Release Of Julian Assange: Plea Deals And Dark Legacies
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 1:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Alleged to have committed 18 offences, 17 novelly linked to the odious Espionage Act, the June 2020 superseding indictment against Assange was a frontal assault on the freedoms of publishing and discussing classified government information. More >>
Data Cleansing Of Unmet Patient Need Hides A National Health Scandal
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 6:17 am | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses the scandal revealed by academic research on unmet patient need in New Zealand’s health system. More >>
DINA: Pinochet’s Directorate For Murder And Torture
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 1:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
DINA was, according to the decree, created for “the purpose of producing intelligence collection requirements for the formulation of policies, plans and adoption of measures required for the security and development of the country”. More >>
On Cancer Drugs, And The Great Ferries Cancellation Disaster Of ’23
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 11:47 am | Gordon Campbell
The decision taken last December to cancel the contract for the two purpose-built Cook Strait ferries – without having a Plan B in mind, let alone in place - has been a calamity that’s going to haunt New Zealand for decades to come. More >>
Armed Vs. Peaceful Resistance - What You Need To Know About Muqawama In Gaza
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 7:18 am | Ramzy Baroud
After the Oslo peace accords and the sudden infusion of western-funded NGOs, did such terms as ‘peaceful resistance’ and ‘non-violent resistance’ begin to emerge within some circles of Palestinian intellectuals. More >>
Growing Up In Nuseirat – Where Massacres Become Routine
Monday, 24 June 2024, 4:15 pm | Ramzy Baroud
For me, Nuseirat is a life that was fully lived, memories that cannot be forgotten, and a future of freedom and dignity that is waiting to take shape. More >>
US Shoots Itself With Own Super-Weapon
Monday, 24 June 2024, 3:36 pm | Eugene Doyle
By increasingly weaponizing the dollar and access to the dollar-denominated global trading system, America has taken to the greenback with a blowtorch that will trigger a reckoning for the ages. More >>
Victory For The Disposables: The Sentencing Of The Hindujas
Monday, 24 June 2024, 2:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On June 21, four members of the Hinduja family, the UK’s wealthiest according to the 2024 Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated value of £37.196 billion, were convicted in a Swiss court of first instance for exploiting staff at their Geneva ... More >>
Explorations Beyond Time
Monday, 24 June 2024, 11:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So is time what keeps us from experiencing the beauty and sublimity of life, including the truth of death while fully alive, much to our detriment and decay? More >>
Quibbling About Killing: Netanyahu’s Spat With Washington
Saturday, 22 June 2024, 1:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark
No longer could Israel be seen to be self-sufficiently impregnable, its defences firmly holding against all adversaries. In a perverse twist on that dilemma, a strong ally providing support is bound to be resented. More >>
Quixotic Regulation: Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Capitulates
Friday, 21 June 2024, 12:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On April 16, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, smacked X (formerly known as Twitter) and Meta with legal notices to remove links to a video within 24 hours depicting what her office declared to be “gratuitous or offensive violence More >>
Attention Is Enough
Friday, 21 June 2024, 11:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Mystical experiencing cannot be contextualized within any given religion, tradition or culture. Its essence is ending the domination of conditioning and belief systems within, and the opening of the mind and heart to inviolability beyond any and all ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Time To Slay The Traffic Management Monster
Friday, 21 June 2024, 9:10 am | Peter Dunne
DUNNE’S WEEKLY In 2016 New Zealand instituted comprehensive new health and safety laws for workplaces and other areas of activity. The expectation was that the new regime the legislation introduced would dramatically improve the culture and practice ... More >>
‘Wishful Thinking’ - Does Israel Have All The Cards In Gaza?
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 1:04 pm | Ramzy Baroud
If the international community mustered the courage to force such a ‘next day’ reality on Tel Aviv, there would be no need for war, or resistance in the first place. More >>
On Why We Shouldn’t Buy New Planes For The PM
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 11:25 am | Gordon Campbell
Do we really “need” a special plane to fly trade missions and media around the globe? Many people would probably like to know to what extent they are subsidising the travels of the corporates on board – is it partially, or totally? More >>
Fractious Arenas: Netanyahu Dissolves The War Cabinet
Tuesday, 18 June 2024, 1:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The departure of Benny Gantz from the Israeli war cabinet, which had served as a checking forum against the conventional security cabinet, presented a perfect opportunity for those who felt his presence stifling. More >>
On Why The Biden “peace Plan” For Gaza Is Doomed
Tuesday, 18 June 2024, 11:53 am | Gordon Campbell
After months and months of blocking every attempt to achieve a Gaza ceasefire, Biden is now marketing his own three-stage “peace plan” to end the conflict - which is hobbled by its service to Israeli priorities - while falsely claiming that Hamas ... More >>
Hegemony, Meaning And Ideology Through Structured Literacy In New Zealand Education System
Tuesday, 18 June 2024, 11:45 am | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses the imposition of ideologically based ‘structured literacy’ into New Zealand’s education system in the context of hegemony and meaning. More >>
Civil Disobedience Is Necessary But Not Sufficient
Monday, 17 June 2024, 11:11 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Let’s not waste our energy and time on the inwardly dead, much less on breaking windows, when we need to ignite a psychological revolution within ourselves. More >>
Shoot The Messenger, Kill The Story
Sunday, 16 June 2024, 2:17 pm | Eugene Doyle
Daniel Everett Hale killed lots of innocent people. He went to jail, not for killing people – he was paid to do that by the US government – but for revealing the truth behind it. Recently released, he has an astonishing story to tell. More >>
Neglect Public Health At New Zealanders’ Peril
Sunday, 16 June 2024, 1:43 pm | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses the government’s neglect of public health and the peril this risks for the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders. More >>
Ukraine, Continued Aid, And The Prevailing Logic Of Slaughter
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 8:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With Ukraine looking desperately bloodied at the hands of their Russian counterparts, the horizon of the conflict had seemingly shrunk of late. Fatigue and desperation had set in. More >>
Welcome To NZ – Now Pay Up: The Risks And Rewards Of Raising The Foreign Tourist Tax
Friday, 14 June 2024, 7:58 pm | The Conversation
The government has proposed raising the international visitor levy to $100. But first New Zealand needs a clear strategy about who it’s trying to attract, and in what numbers. More >>
The Observer Is The Habit Of Separation
Friday, 14 June 2024, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With sufficient unguided attention, the infinite regression of the observer ends, and then time ends. More >>
America Isolated: Why Some Western Capitals Are Shifting Positions On Gaza
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 1:17 pm | Ramzy Baroud
As per American thinking, the recognition and the establishment of a Palestinian State should follow a negotiated settlement between Israel and Palestine, under the auspices of Washington itself. More >>
On How Moderates Empower The Political Right
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 1:12 pm | Gordon Campbell
Struth, what a week. Having made sure the rural sector won’t have to pay any time soon for its pollution, PM Christopher Luxon yesterday chose Fieldays 2024 to launch a parliamentary inquiry into rural banking services, to see how the banks have been ... More >>
Diamonds And Cold Dust: Slaughter At Nuseirat
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 7:22 am | Binoy Kampmark
The ashes had barely settled on a Rafah tent camp incinerated by an Israeli airstrike before the next, gorged massacre presented itself for posterity’s gloomy archive. It was intended as a golden operation and had been months in the making. More >>
Patently Insufficient: A New Intellectual Property Treaty Does Little To Protect Māori Traditional Knowledge
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 2:05 pm | The Conversation
The newly signed global Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge might improve the patent system, but is unlikely to improve protection of Indigenous knowledge itself. More >>
The Eu Elections: The March Of The Right
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 12:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The EU elections over June 6 to June 9 have presented a chaotically merry picture, certainly for those on the right of politics. Not that the right in question is reliably homogeneous in any sense, nor hoping for a single theme of triumph. More >>
War Vs Climate: Why The UNFCCC COP Process Needs To Address The War Issue
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 5:34 am | Alastair Thompson
Unless this planet of ours can end war – we do not have a hope of addressing climate change. More >>
On Our Doomed Love Affair With Oil And Gas
Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 11:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Will anyone really want to invest big time in resuming oil and gas exploration in our corner of the planet? Yes, our ageing natural gas fields are in decline. But betting on foreign oil companies to come to the rescue is a forlorn hope. And, it ... More >>
Scoop Turns 25!!!
Monday, 10 June 2024, 3:19 pm | Alastair Thompson
25 years ago today Scoop.co.nz was launched on June 10th 1999. It is thanks to your support that Scoop.co.nz is able to continue its mission to be a reliable source of truth. We are very grateful to you all. More >>
School Possum Hunts Have Negative Consequences For The Healthy Development Of Empathy In Children
Monday, 10 June 2024, 2:15 pm | Lynley Tulloch
I agree it is vital that children learn about the significance of caring for our environment and develop knowledge and understanding of how to do so. I also think children should be empowered to undertake pro-environmental action. More >>
Modi’s Comeuppance: The Waning Of Hindutva
Saturday, 8 June 2024, 1:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Whatever Modi’s sweet words for the Indian republic, there was no getting away from the fact Hindutva’s juggernaut has lost its shine. More >>
On Cutting The Sick Leave Of Vulnerable Workers
Friday, 7 June 2024, 12:41 pm | Gordon Campbell
Should sick leave be part and parcel of the working conditions from Day One on the job, just like every other health and safety provision? Or should access to sick leave be something that only gradually accumulates, depending on how long a worker ... More >>
Are You Ready For WWIII? The Russians Are
Thursday, 6 June 2024, 4:33 pm | Eugene Doyle
We need facts, analysis and an insistence on dialogue and diplomacy before it is too late. George Orwell knew all about this problem. More >>
