Written By: - Date published: 10:33 am, August 8th, 2026 - 4 comments
Anti imperialism protest on this afternoon at 2 pm at Auckland.
Written By: - Date published: 4:18 pm, August 1st, 2026 - 23 comments
It may feel to NZ First cultists that Winston Peters is being picked on this site. But if he chooses to act like an geriatric, erratic, and foolish foolish dickhead in the pursuit of the unthinking bigot vote.. Well, then opinion writers will notice and opine. Here is another opinion from Local Bodies which focuses on a foreign minister who appears to be out of touch with current international affairs.
Written By: - Date published: 10:34 am, July 31st, 2026 - 46 comments
After the 2005 election, the Chinese Embassy sent Zhang Wei to ask me if Winston Peters would follow Labour government policy. I said I didn’t know, but would ask.
Written By: - Date published: 6:17 pm, July 23rd, 2026 - 18 comments
Iranian Ambassador Reza Nazar Ahari provides some fascinating analysis into why the Western strategy on Iran has been so disastrously flawed.
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, July 21st, 2026 - 17 comments
The World Cup is over and the good guys won, geo-politically speaking. When China fired a test missile a few weeks ago, it was as if the sky had fallen in.
Written By: - Date published: 8:25 pm, July 6th, 2026 - 39 comments
If we are a “force multiplier” we are not independent. We are meant to multiply force for the US. Against China. Madness.
Written By: - Date published: 9:17 am, July 3rd, 2026 - 115 comments
Denmark produces excellent beer, world class design, unmanageable open sandwiches and an object lesson in the operation of proportional representation. A particular interest in Denmark is triggered by the emergence of the Opportunity Party as a possible threshold party in the NZ system. It may, at a stretch, arrive at 5%, which, as commentators have […]
Written By: - Date published: 5:21 pm, June 26th, 2026 - 20 comments
The reason I chose to interview the ambassador is because I accept as self-evident the truism that all wars end with diplomacy and the sooner we return to diplomacy the better.
Written By: - Date published: 8:36 pm, June 23rd, 2026 - 52 comments
An MI6 plant in my opinion. A hollow man, deeply duplicitous, a Zionist warmonger whose only job was to expunge the Labour left. He will not be missed or regretted.
Written By: - Date published: 11:00 am, June 13th, 2026 - 3 comments
Notice about an anti war protest this afternoon at Aotea Square in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland.
Written By: - Date published: 5:16 pm, June 6th, 2026 - 15 comments
FiveEyes issues warning re possible Chinese intelligence recruiting methods! Beware! China issues warning re already recruited anti-China MPs. Cue shock horror!
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, June 1st, 2026 - 30 comments
The timing of the recent suggestion by Chris Penk that New Zealand should review its nuclear free policy makes you wonder if the Trump Administration has applied pressure to do so.
Written By: - Date published: 9:24 am, May 31st, 2026 - 32 comments
Pete Hegseth has claimed that New Zealand is freeloading because it is not spending enough of weapons of war at a time of international chaos created by the United States.
Written By: - Date published: 1:36 pm, May 22nd, 2026 - 6 comments
The coming oil shock is not just about oil. The future is baked in, and its not good. National’s backward-looking budget will make it much worse.
Written By: - Date published: 3:13 pm, May 21st, 2026 - 7 comments
Palantir, founded by Alex Karp and New Zealand citizen Peter Thiel, is at the centre of an array of A.I. driven kill programmes for the US, Israeli and other militaries, including the NZDF.
Written By: - Date published: 2:42 pm, May 15th, 2026 - 4 comments
Some initial ideas about the integrated policy package Labour must consider if it is to meet contemporary challenges posed by emerging populism and the narrowing of the Labour vision over the past five decades
Written By: - Date published: 11:41 am, May 11th, 2026 - 76 comments
That’s Starmer’s achievement, as the local elections show. He always was a muppet puppet; his string-pullers are much more sinister.
Written By: - Date published: 4:23 pm, May 7th, 2026 - 11 comments
That RNZ tricolon has always been infuriating fluff. In the real world, analysts warn we are heading for a cliff.
Written By: - Date published: 10:09 am, May 6th, 2026 - 3 comments
From Friday 1 May 2026, no‑fault evictions are finally banned in England. The end of Section 21 marks a hard‑won victory for renters after years of campaigning, organising, and living under the constant threat of being forced from our homes without explanation. This change did not happen by accident — it happened because tenants, housing activists and communities refused to accept a system stacked against them.
Written By: - Date published: 1:58 pm, May 1st, 2026 - 6 comments
When Ambassador Chen Mingming sent Zhang Wei in 2005 to ask me whether Winston Peters would follow government policy, I said I didn’t know but would ask. I did, and he did.
Written By: - Date published: 5:54 pm, April 21st, 2026 - 65 comments
The world is turned upside down and challenges progressive politics to change gear.
Written By: - Date published: 10:10 am, April 18th, 2026 - 6 comments
Following threats against Canada, Greenland, Denmark and engaging in attacks on Iran, Venezuela, Latin America, Nigeria, Syria and Iraq Donald Trump has now attacked the Pope.
Written By: - Date published: 9:47 am, April 16th, 2026 - 23 comments
Israel is the UAE’s close ally. They collaborate on the War on Iran and in heartless state-destruction campaigns for greater geopolitical weight in the region
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Written By: - Date published: 4:48 pm, April 11th, 2026 - 67 comments
The Cuban Missile crisis was solved by intelligent leadership acting in the best interests of their nations. The current Iranian crisis shows no sign of quality leadership.
Written By: - Date published: 9:07 am, April 8th, 2026 - 16 comments
Vanushi Walters has outlined a stark contrast between the Government’s appeasement of Donald Trump and Labour’s desire to have an independent principle based foreign policy.
Written By: - Date published: 10:15 am, April 6th, 2026 - 48 comments
As this Government’s inaction over the oil crisis becomes more pronounced more and more people are noticing that Christopher Luxon is missing in action.
Written By: - Date published: 4:35 pm, April 5th, 2026 - 38 comments
What if Donald Trump is right and the West should reopen the Strait of Hormuz?
Written By: - Date published: 12:35 pm, March 26th, 2026 - 20 comments
Officials have been doing private, media excluded, webinars with selected businesses. That seems pretty dodgy while our diesel stocks look like they will run out in a few weeks. Rather than (maybe) tomorrow, the government should have been rationing the unproductive Remuera tractors weeks ago.
Written By: - Date published: 7:49 pm, March 23rd, 2026 - 24 comments
Is NZ going to join the Iran war?
Written By: - Date published: 7:10 pm, March 19th, 2026 - 7 comments
The Chinese Embassy is right. The recent joint statement by Australia and New Zealand condemning China’s actions in the South China Sea reads like a relic from a bygone colonial era.
Written By: - Date published: 1:38 pm, March 17th, 2026 - 10 comments
Driven by ideology, this Government has worsened the country’s prospects to reduce oil dependance by axing policies that would have cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
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