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Gordon Campbell IV's Girl Talk, About Copyright
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 11:32 am | Gordon Campbell
Gregg Gillis is Girl Talk – a 27 year old former biomedical engineer from Pittsburgh who used to research such things the effect on light on human circadian rhythms, in order to cure the symptoms of jetlag. These days, Gillis has his own jetlag to ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Obama's closing of Guantanamo
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 11:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Barack Obama’s executive order on interrogation stipulates that the US must close its black detention sites, cease using torture in the interrogation of terrorism suspects, stop the process of rendition to countries that torture, and close the ... More >>
The Dividing Line Between PR and News Disappears
Friday, 23 January 2009, 5:49 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell asks whether TVNZ and TV3 should be tutoring the spin merchants More >>
Obama’s Debt To Martin Luther King's Legacy
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 9:48 am | Gordon Campbell
As Barack Obama wakes up for the first time as President of the United States, he is starting out from a pretty re-assuring position : sky high approval ratings, a huge majority professing they will have patience with him in waiting for solutions, ... More >>
On The Gaza Ceasefire, And Its Aftermath
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 12:51 pm | Gordon Campbell
The carnage in Gaza has ended in a unilateral ceasefire. Israel has called a halt to its blitzkrieg because of the imminent Obama inauguration, and because the next military phase would have involved difficult street fighting in Gaza City, which ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: NZ's Gaza Timidity & Goodbye Bush
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:43 am | Gordon Campbell
As the slaughter in Gaza continues, the timidity of the New Zealand reaction to the 17 day Israeli offensive becomes even more …well, offensive. To date, Foreign Minister Murray McCully’s response has had two main themes (a) New Zealand is not taking ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Israel’s offensive in Gaza
Wednesday, 31 December 2008, 7:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
Collective punishment is a war crime under section 33 of the Geneva Convention, and New Zealand is one of the 194 signatory countries to that Convention. Not that this has meant very much to us in recent weeks and months, as it applies to Israel’s ... More >>
Campbell: 2008, and a holiday beyond politics
Monday, 22 December 2008, 3:22 pm | Gordon Campbell
Over the next fortnight or so, the mainstream media will be providing Year in Review space fillers aplenty, so enough already for the Barack Obama/John Key recaps, and lets all try to forget that Sarah Palin and Owen Glenn ever existed… More >>
New Zealand needs to change tack on Fiji
Thursday, 18 December 2008, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
In every crisis there is an opportunity, and Commodore Bainimarama has given the new National-led government the chance to rescue New Zealand from the dead end policy stance of the Clark government. Later today, we will find out whether Foreign Affairs ... More >>
Transaction Package and Paid Police Spies
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 11:34 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell explores the National-led Government's transaction package. Also, with PM John Key ruling out an inquiry into police paying spies to infiltrate protest groups, complainants can now only seek recourse to the Police Complaints Authority. More >>
National's 'Failure To Communicate'
Saturday, 13 December 2008, 12:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
Any honeymoon the new government might have hoped to enjoy has been blown away by its pre-Christmas blitz on taxation, industrial relations, bail, and education issues. Bills have been put into urgency before they even had proper names, or before the ... More >>
Campbell: Firing At Will And Firing Up Broadband
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the 90 day ‘fire at will’ legislation, and on the faster broadband plan. More >>
Gordon Campbell IV's Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Monday, 8 December 2008, 11:32 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell talks to Britain’s foremost legal authority about human rights in the post 9/11 world, and the war in Iraq. More >>
The Christian take-over of Wellywood
Thursday, 4 December 2008, 2:54 pm | Gordon Campbell
Everyone knows that Hollywood is a den of godless, Obama –loving pinko liberals. That being so, New Zealand’s transformation, post Rings, into a minor hub of Christian movie making seems like…well, a minor miracle. In my experience, local film crews ... More >>
The Key To Escape From Thailand?
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 11:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the escape flights from Thailand, and on taxing people for flying long distances. More >>
What Agenda Now For TVNZ?
Monday, 1 December 2008, 10:36 am | Gordon Campbell
The recent axing of TVNZ’s current affairs programme Agenda has been only the last step in a long decline. The damage was done long ago, with the quarantining of the show to a timeslot when only politicians, their minders and the press gallery would ... More >>
Preparations (or lack thereof) for a crisis
Friday, 28 November 2008, 6:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
On paper, the new government’s reaction to the global financial crisis - namely, a $7 billion ‘stimulation package’ of government spending spread over the next two years - looks like a combination of Think Big and speed dating. However, we won’t ... More >>
Creating Jobs In The Teeth Of The Financial Crisis
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Giving the local government portfolio to Rodney Hide creates some management challenges for John Key. Can Key really afford to let Hide loose down the privatising track in local government – which would entail the wholesale contracting out of council ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s performance in Peru
Monday, 24 November 2008, 10:29 am | Gordon Campbell
The clip on last night’s television of George W. Bush genially patting new boy John Key on the back at the APEC gathering in Peru was not only embarrassing to watch. It was a reminder that a change of government is not just about policy settings. ... More >>
90s Cabinet Gets Key Coat of Varnish
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 10:12 am | Gordon Campbell
The new Cabinet has been greeted with such hosannas from the mainstream media we can only assume some of those articles were really job applications, disguised as commentary. Get a grip. Has there ever been an incoming administration that hasn’t ... More >>
