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Will Israel/US wreck the Gulf States & Iran?

Written By: - Date published: 2:59 pm, March 13th, 2026 - 1 comment

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.”

SNAP ACTION – Stop U.S. Aggression

Written By: - Date published: 3:30 pm, June 23rd, 2025 - 8 comments

Snap action outside Ministry of Defence tomorrow 24th 1230. All welcome

NZ should drop reliance on Trumps imperial republic.

Written By: - Date published: 1:35 pm, June 23rd, 2025 - 67 comments

The major problem with the political model of a Republic, from Greek and Roman times to the present, is that eventually they invariably deteriorate into an imperial mess and war mongering. for purely domestic personal and political reasons. Which is exactly what Donald Trump did yesterday.

Was the Cook Islands leak a FiveEyes operation?

Written By: - Date published: 9:28 pm, June 19th, 2025 - 16 comments

The leak appeared in the Cook Islands media, not New Zealand’s. On the day before Christopher Luxon was due to meet Xi Jinping. One has to ask “cui bono?”

The Thunberg dilemma

Written By: - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 10th, 2025 - 49 comments

If the Madleen activism was largely symbolic, did it work?

Writing in the time of Genocide

Written By: - Date published: 11:09 am, June 2nd, 2025 - 29 comments

I want to share a writer’s journey – of living and writing through the Genocide.  Because my country provides support to Israel and the US, I feel compelled to support Palestine by doing the one thing I know best: writing.  

RNZ’s report on its Israel/Gaza coverage is not credible

Written By: - Date published: 6:13 pm, May 18th, 2025 - 1 comment

Radio New Zealand’s decision to conduct a review of its Israel-Palestine coverage post-7 October 2023 is commendable.   We believe the presented report does not meet a credible standard in terms of breadth, methodology and analysis. 

On Gallipoli and Gaza

Written By: - Date published: 8:37 pm, April 27th, 2025 - 11 comments

Gallipoli was then. Gaza is now. Gallipoli was a disaster, driven by arrogance and incompetence. Gaza is an atrocity, driven by unconscionable evil.

ANZAC Day.

Written By: - Date published: 8:11 am, April 25th, 2025 - 15 comments

ANZAC Day.
Never Again.

Cancun Cruz’s crazy tweet

Written By: - Date published: 12:12 pm, February 2nd, 2025 - 17 comments

Ted Cruz has criticised New Zealand for requiring all Israelis to detail their military experience before coming to New Zealand. But there is a problem with this. He is wrong.

President Trump makes a new Middle East Possible

Written By: - Date published: 6:04 pm, January 5th, 2025 - 23 comments

U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump makes more things possible in the Middle East than the Biden administration.

The Axis of Genocide

Written By: - Date published: 2:22 pm, November 8th, 2024 - 31 comments

The West, “will stand by the Israeli regime until they exterminate the last Palestinian”, says Mohammad Seyed Marandi, an American-Iranian academic. Despite being appalled at my government, I winced as a New Zealander to hear my country described as part of the Axis of Genocide.