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Gordon Campbell on why shipping is NZ’s new trade problem
Tuesday, 22 January 2019, 11:08 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on why shipping is New Zealand’s big new trade problem First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Brexit Vote Aftermath
Wednesday, 16 January 2019, 11:35 am | Gordon Campbell
S o, what happens next? Normally when a major policy like this gets so crushingly rejected – by 230 votes, when Theresa May had reportedly been hoping for a defeat by “only” 70- 100 votes – the PM would resign and/or a fresh election called. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the ongoing carnage in Gaza
Monday, 14 January 2019, 10:35 am | Gordon Campbell
T he past month has devoted a lot of space to the best music and films of 2018, and far less to the past year’s human rights violations. The under-reporting on the ongoing carnage in Gaza has been a case in point. As of 12 January 2019, some ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on MBIE’s social media scam
Thursday, 10 January 2019, 10:57 am | Gordon Campbell
B ack in December 2017, MBIE signed a three year contract worth $112,000 with the Wellington private security firm ZX Security Ltd, to train large numbers of its staff on how to create and maintain false identities on social media - in order to harvest ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our history of selling out the Kurds
Tuesday, 8 January 2019, 11:04 am | Gordon Campbell
F or the past 100 years, the West has sold out the Kurds over and over again. So much so that it came as a surprise yesterday when US National Security advisor John Bolton appeared to walk back the latest act of betrayal. Before Christmas, US President ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the reactionary politics of fear
Monday, 7 January 2019, 10:34 am | Gordon Campbell
F ear has become such a routine part of the political toolkit that it hardly gets noticed anymore, for what it is. For 15 years or so for instance, the prospect of the Greens being in government was portrayed as a sure path to ruin – those crazy ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Thompson + Clark are the tip of the iceberg
Thursday, 20 December 2018, 11:41 am | Gordon Campbell
Basically, it just seems naive to bemoan how state agencies spy on ordinary citizens without addressing how those agencies came to be the hired hands at the bidding of the policy agendas of the government of the day. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the best music tracks of 2018
Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 1:56 pm | Gordon Campbell
For starters, my favourite cut of the year… Oliver Godji, who records as Octavian, is a French/British/Angolan rapper based in London. As someone born in Lille, France, he didn’t qualify for welfare in Britain - so he spent much of his teenage years ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on whether Trump is likely to be impeached
Thursday, 13 December 2018, 10:10 am | Gordon Campbell
‘T is the season to be jolly, and for wrapping a plea bargain under the Christmas tree for all ye formerly merry, Trump-connected gentlemen. Reportedly, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn have all been co-operating with the probe led by ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Brexit & Huawei clusterfudges
Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 9:47 am | Gordon Campbell
Come December 2019, the West’s social democracies could be gone through quite a few changes at the top. British PM Theresa May might not even make it through to the New Year. In a year’s time Angela Merkel’s shaky coalition will have probably ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Judgment Day for Theresa May
Monday, 10 December 2018, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
W hen under stress, British PM Theresa May reportedly eats peanut butter straight from the jar . More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Pope of Parliament
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 1:28 pm | Gordon Campbell
’Tis the season of goodwill towards all humankind… except it would seem, towards the Speaker of Parliament. More >>
Gordon Campbell on why we politely fake political obituaries
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 11:01 am | Gordon Campbell
One unfortunate side effect of “personality politics” is that when prominent politicians die, the niceties we observe at the death of private individuals get automatically extended to them as well. More >>
Gordon Campbell: five lingering questions on the Huawei ban
Monday, 3 December 2018, 11:23 am | Gordon Campbell
The ban on Spark using Huawei technology within their planned 5G phone and Internet network continues to raise more questions than answers. If the security concern is that Huawei could possibly install a ‘backdoor’ into this network that only Chinese ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: banning Huawei and new hostility to China
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 12:02 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on how banning Huawei fits into our new hostility towards China First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on Emmanuel Macron’s no good, very bad year
Wednesday, 28 November 2018, 1:05 pm | Gordon Campbell
E arlier this year, PM Jacinda Ardern’s harmonious meeting with Emmanuel Macron was deemed to be the most important political coup of her entire trip to Europe. Supposedly, the rapport would help to lay the groundwork for a future trade agreement ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on meningococcal, and NZ’s Brexit response
Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 11:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Y esterday, the government announced a vaccination programme to help combat an outbreak of the deadly W strain of meningococcal disease in Northland. Good, but the programme faces an uphill battle. As the school year ends, the window to use schools as the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on NZ’s complicity in Western Sahara
Wednesday, 21 November 2018, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
Two NZ companies called Ravensdown and Ballance Agri-Nutrients appear to be the only independent firms in the world still willing to import phosphate from the disputed territory of the Western Sahara. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Malaysia exposing our China policies
Monday, 19 November 2018, 11:02 am | Gordon Campbell
L ast week, we all owed a vote of thanks to Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad for breaking with protocol during his bilateral meeting in Singapore with New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern. Reportedly, Mahathir used the photo opportunity phase of the meeting – ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the latest roll of the Brexit dice
Thursday, 15 November 2018, 10:41 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the latest roll of the Brexit dice, and prisoner voting More >>
