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Gordon Campbell on a trade war with China
Friday, 23 March 2018, 1:29 pm | Gordon Campbell
A s things currently stand, the White House has NOT included New Zealand on its list of allies whose steel and aluminium exports to the US will be exempted from US President Donald Trump’s recent hike in tariffs. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the PM’s Indonesian guest and West Papua
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 11:39 am | Gordon Campbell
A s David Lange once said, it is almost impossible to get New Zealand to think about Indonesia, the huge nation sitting right on our doorstep. The visit to this country early next week by Indonesian president Joko Widodo won’t change that situation, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Winston Peters' cozying up to Trump
Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on Winston Peters' attempts to cozy up to Trump, and to Russia First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on Police pursuits
Monday, 12 March 2018, 10:50 am | Gordon Campbell
T he willingness of the Police to play Russian roulette with public safety via its current policy on pursuits continues to end in carnage: three dead in Nelson, two in the speeding car, and one member of the public unlucky enough to be in the wrong ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the #MeToo movement in Sweden
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 1:35 pm | Gordon Campbell
I n the week leading up to International Women’s Day (today!) the Oscars enabled the rich and famous to do what elites can usefully do: namely, they can shine a spotlight on the attitudes and practices that oppress women, blacks, Hispanics and indigenous ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the departure of Steven Joyce
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
I n the end, the party leadership left the loaded revolver on Steven Joyce’s desk, and he did the decent thing. Amy Adams as Finance spokesperson will now become the main “change” element in the generational shift promised by new party leader ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Our unthinking readiness to confront China
Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 12:35 pm | Gordon Campbell
I n New Zealand, trade is viewed solely through the lens of the economy, alone. Other countries – our friends and rivals alike – regard trade deals from a far more sophisticated mindset (as an adjunct of diplomacy and defence ) and proceed ... More >>
Campbell on the inquiry into the abuse of children in care
Thursday, 18 January 2018, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
A pparently, PM Jacinda Ardern has chosen to exclude faith-based institutions from the government’s promised inquiry into the abuse of children in state care. Any role for religious institutions – eg the Catholic Church – would be only to observe ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Oprah as a presidential hopeful
Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 1:19 pm | Gordon Campbell
O prah for President…That was one of those summer silly season stories, right ? Maybe not. On the morning after the Golden Globes Awards ceremony where she delivered That Speech (“ I want all the girls watching here now to know that a new day is ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the latest US threats to bomb North Korea
Thursday, 11 January 2018, 8:44 pm | Gordon Campbell
J ust before Christmas, the US political scientist and government consultant Edward Luttwak published an article in Foreign Policy magazine called “Its Time To Bomb North Korea.” More >>
Gordon Campbell on the US demonising of Iran
Friday, 5 January 2018, 12:47 pm | Gordon Campbell
Satan may not exist, but the Evil One has always been a handy tool for priests and politicians alike. Currently, Iran is the latest bogey conjured up by Washington to (a) justify its foreign policy interventions and (b) distract attention from its ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the attacks on Lorde, over Israel
Tuesday, 2 January 2018, 12:53 pm | Gordon Campbell
T he escalation of attacks on Lorde for her considered decision not to perform in Israel is unfortunate, but is not entirely unexpected. In many respects though, the full page Washington Post ad attack upon the New Zealand singer – and on the recent ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the quest for zero net carbon emissions
Tuesday, 19 December 2017, 11:14 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on yesterday’s quest for zero net carbon emissions First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on why a ‘hard Brexit’ has hit a brick wall
Monday, 18 December 2017, 11:11 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on why a ‘hard Brexit’ has hit a brick wall First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on Defence spending, Alabama, & Dolly Parton
Thursday, 14 December 2017, 12:00 pm | Gordon Campbell
T he spending lavished on Defence projects to meet the risks that could maybe, possibly, theoretically face New Zealand in future is breath-taking, given how successive governments have been reluctant to spend even a fraction of those amounts on the nation’s actual ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on vulnerable kids and fresh RNZ funding
Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 10:55 am | Gordon Campbell
W hat’s in a word? Often a lot, in politics. In fact, the decision to remove the word ‘vulnerable’ from the Ministry for Vulnerable Children could well mark a whole shift in approach to the care of children in need. And I’m hedging with the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on scaring voters back into line
Monday, 11 December 2017, 12:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
F ear has always been a useful mobilising tool in politics… yet in 2017, bogeymen of all shapes and sizes seem to have fallen on hard times. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the drinking water crisis
Thursday, 7 December 2017, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on how the drinking water crisis has been a failure of political leadership More >>
Gordon Campbell on saying ‘work for the dole,’ nicely
Tuesday, 5 December 2017, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
A s New Zealand First learned the hard way from its two previous periods in government, small parties in MMP coalitions get blamed for the unpopular stuff done by their senior partner in power, but no one remembers the good stuff the junior player brought ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the right wing’s fetish for tax cuts
Monday, 4 December 2017, 12:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
S o the Trump tax bill has passed in the Senate, which means that the US nominal corporate tax rate is now on track to be cut from 35% to 20%. No doubt… there will be calls from our own business sector to drink the same Kool-Aid, and pass a corporate ... More >>
