Written By: - Date published: 11:44 am, March 5th, 2026 - 39 comments
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 the arbitrary actions of “big players” in Iran, Suez, Cuba […]
Written By: - Date published: 11:56 am, March 3rd, 2026 - 22 comments
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.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 pm, March 2nd, 2026 - 55 comments
Funny…when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Putin to tell us whether his aggression was legal under international law. Different story when it comes to the Americans.
Written By: - Date published: 8:59 am, March 1st, 2026 - 29 comments
Trump’s attack on Iran is one hell of a way to divert away from the Epstein files.
Written By: - Date published: 8:27 am, March 1st, 2026 - 42 comments
Trump’s attack on Iran has a high risk of turning into another Afghanistan in which the United States was utterly humiliated.
Written By: - Date published: 5:53 pm, February 28th, 2026 - 29 comments
Hannah Spencer’s stunning win for the Greens in the the UK’s Gorton and Denton by-election has some lessons for political strategists here as well.
Written By: - Date published: 10:02 pm, February 8th, 2026 - 9 comments
The NZ government has shrouded US rare minerals discussions in secrecy, refusing to provide information to Kiwis even as the US confirms talks are in progress. The agreement may requires countries to commit to accelerated and extended mining
Written By: - Date published: 12:37 pm, February 4th, 2026 - 9 comments
When the coalition is treating the economy as a game, are they having fun?
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, January 25th, 2026 - 47 comments
Ten months to go and there is no political party currently countering the sustained rise of New Zealand First.
Written By: - Date published: 4:45 pm, January 23rd, 2026 - 59 comments
Carney’s observations of the rupture in the world order and great power rivalry are mirrored in NZ politics.
Written By: - Date published: 9:27 am, January 21st, 2026 - 16 comments
Donald Trump invited Christopher Luxon to join a new organisation to oversee the redevelopment of Gaza and eventually the replacement of the United Nations. How should Luxon respond?
Written By: - Date published: 9:27 pm, January 16th, 2026 - 26 comments
To understand what’s going on in Iran, abandon what the Persians invented centuries ago: Manichaeism, black-and-white, political framing.
Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, January 10th, 2026 - 100 comments
The competing social media takes based on video that clearly shows that the shooting of Minnesota woman Renee Good was totally unjustified shows how dominant social discord is now considered to be more important than truth.
Written By: - Date published: 10:57 am, January 7th, 2026 - 25 comments
Among a significant number of leaders claiming they are actively monitoring the situation in Venezuela after the US invasion and the kidnapping of President Maduro are some pointed and very relevant comments from some unusual sources.
Written By: - Date published: 11:44 am, January 1st, 2026 - 67 comments
Israel bans 37 NGOs from Gaza including the world renowned medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontière)
Written By: - Date published: 12:03 pm, December 23rd, 2025 - 11 comments
Advantage gets out the crystal ball and postilated what may happen next year.
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, December 22nd, 2025 - 13 comments
Some of the best video media coverage of a terrorism event I’ve seen, from the human side.
Written By: - Date published: 2:06 pm, December 19th, 2025 - 18 comments
the US administration stresses that countries like Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan will need to militarise as never before in peacetime to keep China in its place.
Written By: - Date published: 8:27 pm, December 12th, 2025 - 25 comments
“The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.” White House National Security Strategy, 2025
Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, December 7th, 2025 - 2 comments
The world is entering a generation of challenges not seen since the late 1930s. New Zealand is better placed than most states to weather this challenge if it prepares now.
Written By: - Date published: 10:24 am, November 20th, 2025 - 151 comments
This weeks’ sabotage of a Polish rail line that enables freight to get to Ukraine is a big step in the undeclared war by Russia against European countries that support Ukraine.
Written By: - Date published: 9:42 am, November 17th, 2025 - 3 comments
The world’s largest economies are lowering or flatlining emissions at the same time as they are growing their economies.
Written By: - Date published: 3:57 pm, November 14th, 2025 - 8 comments
There are clear signs Ireland’s new President Catherine Connolly’s landslide victory has intensified efforts to undermine the country’s neutrality and neuter its aim to punish genocidal Israel.
Written By: - Date published: 4:01 pm, November 7th, 2025 - 10 comments
The importance of a New Zealand focus
on the rebuild of Gaza.
Written By: - Date published: 9:28 am, November 5th, 2025 - 21 comments
The New York City mayoral election results are expected later this afternoon NZT.
Written By: - Date published: 2:40 pm, October 31st, 2025 - 22 comments
Like the Americans, maybe we should re-name our Ministry of Defence as the Ministry of War. The frigates New Zealand wants to buy can carry long-range Tomahawk Cruise missiles, with lethality so beloved by Judith Collins.
Written By: - Date published: 4:04 pm, October 24th, 2025 - 90 comments
Lauded at the CIA and lectured at the Department of War, Judith Collins last week got her marching orders – prepare New Zealanders to join the next US war against China.
Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, October 7th, 2025 - 57 comments
Martyn Bradbury’s attacks on Winston Peters and an attack on his home has allowed Winston to claim victimhood status and hog the media spotlight.
Written By: - Date published: 5:34 pm, October 2nd, 2025 - 60 comments
The United States Department of Defense has been renamed as the Department of War. Nobody can be under any illusions anymore. More war is coming.
Written By: - Date published: 1:00 pm, September 30th, 2025 - 36 comments
In 1947 the Palestine as an area held under mandate by the UK was divided in resolution 181. The creation of independent Arab and Jewish States plus Jerusalem outside both. Trumps’ new ‘peace plan’ isn’t one because it doesn’t deal with the problem of Zionist terrorism that prevents the creation of a Palestinian state. It merely creates a temporary ceasefire without looking at the problem. New Zealand and other UN members should just start treating Israel as a terrorist state.
Written By: - Date published: 7:04 pm, September 29th, 2025 - 4 comments
The last time New Zealand put itself on the wrong side of history was when a New Zealand rugby team toured apartheid South Africa just after schoolchildren were gunned down on the streets of Soweto.
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