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Iran: Compounding Chaos

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 […]

New Zealand needs regime change

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.

On The Iran War

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.

So much for being the President of Peace

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.

The United States and Israel attack Iran, again

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.

Don’t fight the last war

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.

Despite Denials, US-NZ Minerals Agreement likely to proceed

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

This National-led Government is the best mis-manager of the economy

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?

The rise of Winston follows the rise of Pauline Hansen and Nigel Farage

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.

Mapping Carney’s speech to our MMP Politics

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.

Should Luxon join Trump’s Board of Peace?

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?

Iran in the vortex – what’s really going on?

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.

The death of truth

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.

Some random and unusual responses to the US invasion of Venezuela

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.

Israel only country in history to ban Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontière)

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)

Advantage’s 2026 predictions

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.

Ozzy Man on Bondi

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.

Pirates of the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific. The White House National Security Strategy. 

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. 

Atlas Shrugged. Part One: Trump’s Security Strategy blows up the American world order.

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

From In and Down to Outward-In: The Big Picture matters

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.

The Old Left is Wrong about Russia

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.

Who’s winning the Climate Change Revolution?

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. 

Ireland’s new President causes Western backlash

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.

Some Number 8 Fencing Wire in Gaza

Written By: - Date published: 4:01 pm, November 7th, 2025 - 10 comments

The importance of a New Zealand focus
on the rebuild of Gaza.

Mamdani

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.

On Our Looming Spending Spree On Japanese Frigates

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.

Judith gets her marching orders

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.

Do not feed the Droll

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.

The Department of War

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.

Gaza peace proposal ignores the terrorism of the Zionist state

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.

On The Shameful, Incompetent Decision On Palestine

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.