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This weekend at Ngaruwahia Marae a meeting has been called by Kiingi Tuuheitia for all interested persons to discuss the new Government's policies. There is a lot to discuss. Waikato Tainui have already expressed their disgust with attacks on te reo by seeking Judicial Review…
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Green MP Golriz Ghahraman has resigned from Parliament. From the Herald: “It is a great honour to serve as a Member of Parliament. I am proud of my advocacy work on human rights and foreign affairs, and particularly proud of campaigns that resulted in practical…
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One of New Zealand’s best strategic analysts, Dr David Skilling, recently set out the risks we need to prepare for should Donald Trump win the U.S. Presidency again. As he sets out the obvious reduced United States willingness to provide security guarantees to Taiwan, Japan,…
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But the ones that run US foreign policy are. Matthew Hooton in a typical smear wants to label Helen Clark as anti-American because she warned that involving us in attacking Houthis was a ''slippery slope." She's not and he's wrong. And the downward run has…
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An expanding Middle East war that puts the Red Sea and Suez tanker route at risk is a major risk to us because it could hit the global price of oil. Since the attacks by the United States and United Kingdom on Houthi bases in…
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I'm not a particular fan of Golriz Ghahraman, at times she's a bit of a loose unit in ways that tend to get excused by the left. But she brings useful experience to the Green caucus and parliament and is an experienced MP. She is…
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There are still groups of people in New Zealand who can and do organise to resist the damage of the right. My previous post invited gentle readers to identify where they might put their activist energy. If you want to do more than complain about…
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South Africa has taken a case that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza to the International Court of Justice. A group of prominent New Zealand lawyers have asked the New Zealand Government to join South Africa in support of their application. I think we should.…
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This morning's browse of twitter came up with this fascinating tweet from highly respected Guardian reporter George Monbiot. https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1743581219181199723 I was always aware that the Atlas Network was a dark money right wing think tank that was active throughout the world but reading this story…
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Can Israel lose a moral battle in Gaza and yet still win? It gives one pause that there is an increasing risk that the Gaza war will expand. The assassination of the Hamas military leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beiruit has a particularly tough dual moment.…
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We are nearly two months into the latest Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. I have written a few posts about the topic recently but none since November 2023. I thought then that Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip was appalling. For those…
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Cross-posted from DissidentVoice https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/12/rip-john-pilger/ A bright star in the firmament of justice has gone out. One of the greatest journalists of our era has passed away. John Pilger was always on the side of the oppressed. He denounced Imperialism and all its violent predations--war, genocide, exploitation--as…
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With the left out of power, one of the most useful things we can do in 2024 is simply let people know where they can join in and do good. This post isn't an opportunity to skite about how virtuous you are. It's an opportunity to…
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