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Very exciting if you’re a Green supporter.

No Right Turn highlights the ability of Green policy announcements to shift the window from “inconceivable” to “eminently doable” The (National) policy is heavily caveated – how many propertarian weirdos and supermarket execs has National appointed to the …

Perhaps Luxon fears the Green proposal actually working. Mamdani’s effort seems to be going pretty good in NY: Capitalism just admitted it can’t compete with socialism. New York City wants to open five grocery stores that the city itself owns and runs. …

@weka There was no reply button on your moderation above so replying here. I have read and understood your moderation note. I apologise unreservedly for any offence taken by Res Publica or caused to The Standard in general

“But sure. If “war” means only a formally recognisable invasion of another sovereign state’s mainland territory, I suppose China has been remarkably peaceful.” Something that cannot be said about the US who have always, in every year since the civil war, …

Thats interesting. So your daughter, like yourself, thinks, for example, that making Libya a failed state, through bombing and missiles, such that slavery and the slave trade is resurrected is good foreign policy? She should try another pre school.

From Eugene Doyle: Over recent years, I regularly ask people: “When was the last time China used its military to invade another country?” 1979 – in a short war against Vietnam. In the entire post-world war II period from the US nuclear attacks on Nagasaki …

Sorry bud. The US history of violence abroad is unparalleled. It is uniquely violent in the modern world towards external states. And yet this is who you believe we should be allied with. Go for it. The current violence in West Asia is the direct result of …

oleaginous /ō″lē-ăj′ə-nəs/ adjective 1. Of or relating to oil. 2. Falsely or smugly earnest; unctuous. “oleaginous flattery.” 3. Having the nature or qualities of oil; oily; unctuous. Great word!

The problem is structural. If you aren’t prepared to disrupt the structure, nothing will change and any monetary subsidisation will just be sucked out in the same way that accommodation subsidies get sucked out by rising rent. By structurally breaking the …

No right turn has a post up today about investigations into Neonazis in NZ1st. Today’s followup exposes a senior member of the party’s youth-wing as an outright Nazi: Nicholas Newport, 23, was named as a member of the executive of Young New Zealand First …

Sorry but Iran has not invaded Lebanon. It has supported its independence struggle against Israeli, US supported, occupation. It is the occupiers that are the invaders. Positing Iran as the imperial invading force is ludicrous. The right to self …

Colonial powers have always labelled anti colonial resistance as terrorism. The weaponization of the word “terrorist” to delegitimize resistance is neither new nor accidental. It is, in fact, one of the oldest and most effective instruments of colonial …

A few alarm bells are starting to sound in Australia abot the full implications of AUKUS Pllar ll. It is already difficult to get an embargo or any kind of judicial review on any Australian transfer of military goods or services The statute that should …

Awesome from Chloe and Marama. The future is bright and Green. This is the type of policy and articulation that completely nullifies the right wing projection of anger and austerity as necessary evils.