Trump’s attack on Iran, in cahoots with, or in support of, his regional proxy, Israel, is illegal, but also unconscionable in moral and political terms. It is a resurgence of the post-war experience, in which the development of the rules-based international order was qualified by…
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Last week, in my article: “Hold the Line”, I pointed out a rumour being fanned by NZME’s Barry Soper, spouse of NZME Newstalk ZB host Heather Du Plessis-Allan. Soper claimed that a 1News crime report revealing that gang numbers now surpassed police numbers, with data…
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A prime minister who does not understand how vulnerable New Zealand’s economy is to a Middle Eastern war as we have now, is a Prime Minister who should be removed from office. In clear advice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade from July last…
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By Gordon Campbell, crossposted from Pacific.Scoop. Funny...back when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Vladimir Putin to tell us whether his acts of aggression were legal under international law. Instead, we immediately decided the invasion was illegal, and forthrightly condemned Russia’s actions at…
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This is one hell of a way to divert away from the Epstein files. Israel has attacked Iran and the United States has joined in. And not by accident. The White House has been trying recently to work out how to get around the Constitution's…
Every time US President Trump has threatened a massive intervention in another country, military or otherwise, there has been a broad chorus of commentators and political leadership decrying that the US won't achieve anything and will make matters worse. President Trump has however faced zero…
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