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Walking backwards off the cliff

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.

New Zealand And Palantir

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.

Smash Left populism, get Right populism

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.

Who’s best on Foreign Affairs?

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.

Trump v Pope Leo

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.

Divide and Prosper – the evil genius of the UAE

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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The Iranian Imbecile crisis

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.

Towards an independent Foreign Policy

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.

Missing in action

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.

Winston Peters signals willingness to send military assets to assist USA

Written By: - Date published: 7:49 pm, March 23rd, 2026 - 24 comments

Is NZ going to join the Iran war?

Our Willingness To Earn US Approval, Via China-Bashing

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.

Will Israel/US wreck the Gulf States & Iran?

Written By: - Date published: 2:59 pm, March 13th, 2026 - 14 comments

We are now in the opening days of what may be the decisive war to determine either the survival of the Iranian state or the expulsion of the US from the Arab lands.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

Christopher Luxon: We’ve shown meaningful leadership on Palestine

Written By: - Date published: 4:56 pm, September 29th, 2025 - 53 comments

Hipkins also declared his stance on Palestine recognition on the day, but it wasn’t widely reported.

Winston Peters declares “No recognition of Palestine”

Written By: - Date published: 11:59 am, September 27th, 2025 - 80 comments

After a few months of telling Kiwis a decision on Palestine was imminent, Peters finally shared NZ’s official position today. Other countries had done so months earlier.

God bless these troublesome priests

Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, September 16th, 2025 - 11 comments

All over the world more people are taking direct action because governments fail their obligations under the Genocide Convention.

Helen Clark on Palestine

Written By: - Date published: 3:39 pm, August 12th, 2025 - 31 comments

“This is a catastrophic situation and here we are in New Zealand somehow arguing some fine point about whether we should recognise. We need to be adding our voice to the need for this catastrophe to stop.”

Corbyn still draws a crowd – what’s new?

Written By: - Date published: 6:15 pm, July 30th, 2025 - 17 comments

Zarah Sultana for one – she’s a star. Gaza for another – anti-zionism/semitism won’t work this time. 500,000 signed up in a week for a new party is impressive.

Corporate profit and Gaza

Written By: - Date published: 3:10 pm, July 11th, 2025 - 27 comments

UN Special rapporteur on Gaza Francesca Albanese’s latest report highlights the corporate role in enabling genocide in Gaza. Utterly predictably, she has been sanctioned by the United States.

Why Asia-Pacific should back Iran

Written By: - Date published: 4:41 pm, June 30th, 2025 - 24 comments

Ceasefire will only be a pause in the long-running US-Israeli campaign for regime change in Iran. The good news for our region is that Iran’s resilience pushes back the looming risk of a US-led war on China.

Weasel Winston’s FiveEyes fudge

Written By: - Date published: 4:45 pm, June 25th, 2025 - 22 comments

Winston Peters’ Ministerial statement in Parliament yesterday was a disgrace. Echoing other FiveEyes leaders such as Keir Starmer, unable to distinguish evil from good, he accused those who can of “moral posturing.”