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Gordon Campbell on prospects of US talks with North Korea
Friday, 11 May 2018, 11:10 am | Gordon Campbell
On June 12, the leaders of North Korea and the United States will meet across a table in Singapore, and Kim Jong Un must already be feeling giddy at the thought that this meeting is already being described with the word “summit” formerly reserved for ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on nine Trump lies about the Iran deal
Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 12:10 pm | Gordon Campbell
The cascade of Orwellian lies that US President Donald Trump has used to rationalize why his country is reneging on the commitments it made under the Iran nuclear deal should be posing a genuine problem for our media. What Trump has done to the Iran ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s latest attempts at relevance
Tuesday, 8 May 2018, 10:07 am | Gordon Campbell
National has now moved to Plan B in its pose as the only “responsible” party of government. Having ignored the existence of massive problems in health and education for nine years in government, it is no longer politically viable for National for ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on petrol pricing and the midwives march
Friday, 4 May 2018, 11:24 am | Gordon Campbell
The public brawl between Energy Minister Megan Woods and BP looks like spinning off – as brawls tend to do – into a whole array of extraneous matters. Evidently, some people find it hard to see the difference between taxes and profits. More >>
On hostility against journalists & Israel’s lies about Iran
Wednesday, 2 May 2018, 10:52 am | Gordon Campbell
At last count, 32 working journalists had been killed this year up until April 30, and recent weeks have seen the worst period of sustained violence against journalists since the 2015 Charlie Hebdo killings in France. In Kabul on Monday, a suicide bomber ... More >>
On health promises, BP, and the White House correspondents furore
Tuesday, 1 May 2018, 10:44 am | Gordon Campbell
Remember that classic clip of Homer Simpson reacting to news of the government’s best effort at speed –roasting a buffalo? More >>
On the need for immediate action on WINZ
Friday, 27 April 2018, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
So the old saying goes, the main difference between the centre-right and centre-left is that both believe in market solutions, but the centre-left spends a lot more time worrying about the effects, afterwards. (If only market capitalism could be nicer ... More >>
On the perils of using PPPs to meet Auckland’s roading needs
Thursday, 26 April 2018, 1:42 pm | Gordon Campbell
More than once, the coalition government has ruled out using public private partnerships (PPPs) to fund the country’s infrastructure needs in health and education – apparently private profiteering in those areas is recognised as being undesirable. Not the same ... More >>
On why France could become our closest ally in Europe
Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 10:22 am | Gordon Campbell
As PM Jacinda Ardern returns from a triumphant tour to Britain and the capitals of Europe, her officials have probably begun to assess what the more substantive gains from the trip might have been. Most of the chatter has been about potential trade ... More >>
On Thompson+ Clark, and Russia’s FIFA World Cup
Friday, 20 April 2018, 11:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Daily, the coalition government keeps running into examples of the toxic legacy left behind by National – and just as regularly, even the simple fixes are proving stubbornly difficult to enact. Take the case of the security firm Thompson + Clark, which has ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the GCSB’s security hang-up with Russia
Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 11:58 am | Gordon Campbell
So our GCSB has chimed in, alongside its British, Australian and US allies, with warnings about a “fresh wave” of Russian cyber attacks, although the warning has been curiously framed : More >>
On the chemical weapons attack (and response) in Syria
Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 12:59 pm | Gordon Campbell
The past week’s headlines about the chemical attacks in Syria - and the military response by the US, France and Britain - have tended to overshadow a few of the downstream outcomes. For starters, the chemical weapons assault on Douma seems to have succeeded ... More >>
On the prevailing media narratives about the Govt coalition
Monday, 16 April 2018, 2:07 pm | Gordon Campbell
The media reports the facts…. but that’s not the end of it, and nor should it be. It also marshals those facts and creates a story from them, usually one with a moral that’s implied or explicit. After six months though, it is still unclear ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Hit&Run inquiry
Thursday, 12 April 2018, 2:50 pm | Gordon Campbell
So there is to be a government inquiry into the 2010 raid on an Afghan village, as described in the Nicky Hager/Jon Stephenson book Hit & Run. Good news, and the inquiry has been welcomed by Hager. Yet with the best will in the world, such an ... More >>
On Labour’s timidity, and the temporary outrage over Syria
Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 12:21 pm | Gordon Campbell
What an odd post-Cabinet press conference that was yesterday, from PM Jacinda Ardern and Finance Minister Grant Robertson. Overall, it was like hearing from the flight desk that the plane was losing pressure, one of the wings had been showing signs ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on racial profiling at Immigration NZ
Friday, 6 April 2018, 11:33 am | Gordon Campbell
So Immigration New Zealand has been using racial profiling to guide its decisions on which kinds of immigrants it should deport. More >>
Gordon Campbell on making our roads safer, less congested
Wednesday, 4 April 2018, 10:46 am | Gordon Campbell
If Auckland wants a better, modern transport system – and if the rest of the country wants safer roads that kill and injure fewer people every year – then this will cost money, and all of us will need to make sacrifices to pay for it. The ‘do nothing’ ... More >>
On Middlemore Hospital as a symptom of neglect
Tuesday, 3 April 2018, 11:27 am | Gordon Campbell
Week by week, the sheer scale of the neglect to crucial social infrastructure by the Key/English government becomes apparent – and with it the size (and expense) of the problems they’ve left behind, for the Ardern government to somehow address. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the looming Hit & Run inquiry
Thursday, 29 March 2018, 10:13 am | Gordon Campbell
It now seems certain the government will be launching an independent inquiry (after Easter) into the allegations contained in the Hit & Run book, and related matters. At the post-Cabinet press conference this week, PM Jacinda Ardern confirmed to Werewolf ... More >>
On the hype about the Reserve Bank’s new governor
Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 11:35 am | Gordon Campbell
It is time for the ritual handover at the Reserve Bank. Sometime today, Adrian Orr will don the gubernatorial undergarments, drain the Goblet of Knowledge and be led down, down the spiral staircase to confront the Beast of Inflation in its lair, believed ... More >>
