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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.

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.

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.

Psy-Op Alert: The Four Horsemen of the Linguistic Apocalypse

Written By: - Date published: 2:03 pm, September 11th, 2025 - 11 comments

‘Shared values,’ ‘like-minded partners,’ the ‘rules-based order,’ and the ‘Indo-Pacific’ have become the Five Eyes nations’ favourite rhetorical weapons in their contest with declared adversaries.

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.

The Rainbow Warrior 1985-2025.  Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific: the evacuation of Rongelap

Written By: - Date published: 4:30 pm, July 10th, 2025 - 1 comment

On its last voyage the Rainbow Warrior evacuated the entire population of Rongelap. Cancers, birth defects, and genetic damage had ripped through the population after US above-ground nuclear explosions.

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

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. 

The Ukraine-United States Deal

Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, May 4th, 2025 - 13 comments

In a bargain of the damned the United States and Ukraine have signed a peace agreement to share revenues from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths.

After ANZAC Day

Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, April 29th, 2025 - 29 comments

ANZAC Day 2025 is just so dark in the face of a hot war in the Ukraine, and the real lack of commanding peacemakers left on this earth. 

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.

The Fall of Saigon 1975. Fifty years of repeating what was forgotten.

Written By: - Date published: 10:28 am, April 23rd, 2025 - 41 comments

“The only lesson we learn from history is that we do not learn the lessons of history.”  It’s about time we changed that.

The Trump Shock: Why the US President Crashed the Global Economy

Written By: - Date published: 3:28 pm, April 11th, 2025 - 19 comments

There is a method to Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff madness. The chaos and confusion is deliberate; the aim is nothing less than the controlled disintegration of the world economy, writes Elliot Crossan. The eyes of the world are on Donald Trump once again. The world’s most successful attention-seeker has us all transfixed. It’s a story […]

All they are saying is give War a chance

Written By: - Date published: 7:25 am, April 8th, 2025 - 78 comments

At a time when the need for increased spending in health, education and the environment is so pressing the Government wants to spend a further $12 billion over the next four years on rearming.

Fabians: On Rwanda invading DRC

Written By: - Date published: 3:51 pm, April 4th, 2025 - 1 comment

I turn up to Fabian meetings, when I remember . They are often useful for understanding how other people view topics that I am either familar with or sometimes have little information on. Like the Zoom tonight on the ongoing conflict in the Congo from invading Rwandan troops and their local proxy insurgents.

Vilification of Russia not good for peace in Europe.

Written By: - Date published: 1:18 pm, April 1st, 2025 - 33 comments

Putinversteher – one who “understands” Putin. It is meant as a slur but Professor Geoffrey Roberts, a British historian of Russia, embraces the term.

But her emails

Written By: - Date published: 8:04 am, March 28th, 2025 - 17 comments

Recent events in the US involving the use of Signal to discuss top secret military news and accidentally including a reporter in the chat suggests that the US of A is currently resembling a dark satirical cross between Monty Python and The Thick of It.

Posturing is not policy. How the West doomed Ukraine.

Written By: - Date published: 1:04 pm, March 24th, 2025 - 209 comments

Henry Kissinger nailed it back in 2014: “For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.” 

Great America

Written By: - Date published: 12:23 pm, March 9th, 2025 - 17 comments

The United States of America is in full territorial expansion mode and there is little that anyone can do about it. 

Blink twice if you are being held hostage

Written By: - Date published: 10:48 am, March 5th, 2025 - 27 comments

Vladimir Zelensky has apologised to Donald Trump for being the receipient of Trump’s appalling behaviour recently. And Trump has sparked a full on trade war with some of America’s closest allies.

Helen Clark’s nuanced take on world events

Written By: - Date published: 10:40 am, March 3rd, 2025 - 57 comments

In a recent interview Helen Clark managed to neatly summarise current world problems and express a desire for New Zealand to maintain its independent foreign policy.

The new world order

Written By: - Date published: 10:32 am, March 2nd, 2025 - 130 comments

Yesterday’s press conference involving Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky suggests that the United States is now solidly aligned with Russia against the Western World and Western values.