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Gordon Campbell on Rubio’s last stand, and Sleater-Kinney
Monday, 29 February 2016, 9:33 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, it certainly was entertaining to watch Rubio succeed in getting under Donald Trump’s skin the other day, in the last debate before tomorrow’s Super Tuesday multi-state sweepstakes. This exchange was particularly on point in attacking Trump’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our underfunded Syrian refugee intake
Friday, 26 February 2016, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Once again, our little show pony Prime Minister is prancing around the world offering to take in refugees – from Syria, from Nauru – while providing no extra funding to ensure these refugees receive adequate medical care once they’re here. Most ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on why we’re sitting ducks for power companies
Thursday, 25 February 2016, 11:20 am | Gordon Campbell
The marketing campaigns waged to induce customers to chase around between electricity companies in a frantic search for savings has always looked like a diversion. Yet according to RNZ this morning, we’re about to see more being spent on this kind ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Clintons' support among black voters
Monday, 22 February 2016, 11:13 am | Gordon Campbell
Nevada has been conducting its politics via caucuses only since 2004, and the state’s tepid interest in this method of democratic expression still shows. Historically, the turnout in both the Republican and Democratic caucuses in Nevada has been incredibly ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Defence Force’s spending bonanza
Friday, 19 February 2016, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
It has been a fairly typical week for this government… mental health services in Christchurch slashed , further massive cuts to DHB funding , and the abdication of its responsibility for social housing . More >>
Gordon Campbell on the middle class anger behind Trump
Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 9:40 am | Gordon Campbell
One of the best examples of the Alice Through The Looking Glass nature of US politics occurred on the weekend, when Donald Trump – in the course of a debate between the Republican Party contenders – roundly blamed George W. Bush for the Iraq invasion ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the bogus Syrian peace deal, and Scalia
Monday, 15 February 2016, 9:40 am | Gordon Campbell
The good thing about the Syrian peace deal announced on Friday is that it might create a small space for humanitarian relief, but… the ceasefire is clearly a sham. Russia has agreed to stop fighting for a week, as long as it can make an exception ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Bernie Sanders aftermath
Thursday, 11 February 2016, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Even as Bernie Sanders was celebrating his win yesterday in New Hampshire, the road ahead for the Sanderistas seemed as dark as ever. The notion that the Sanders victory has shaken the Democratic Party to its core and is causing furrowed, worried brows ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on US pressure to expand our role in Iraq
Wednesday, 10 February 2016, 10:30 am | Gordon Campbell
Tomorrow, Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee and Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Tim Keating will be in Brussels for a ministerial meeting of the so-called “Counter-Daesh Coalition.” [Daesh is another term for Islamic State.] Here’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Treaty/TPP overlap, and Iowa
Wednesday, 3 February 2016, 11:38 am | Gordon Campbell
The people who point out that we already have investor-state dispute settlement provisions in other trade deals and ‘so far so good, we haven’t had to worry about them’ …man, that is such an absurd argument. When it comes to arms reduction ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s free education plan and Iowa
Tuesday, 2 February 2016, 9:55 am | Gordon Campbell
The “free” education policy that Labour has just unveiled has some obvious shortcomings. The universities are right to stress that the cuts to their net funding (after inflation) over the past few years are already jeopardising their ability to provide quality ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on bribing the Saudis and Oscar racism
Thursday, 28 January 2016, 10:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Does this sound familiar? In the mid 2000s, New Zealand wanted to pursue a humanitarian policy, on live sheep exports. This happened to offend a Saudi foreign investor, who eventually threatened legal action against it. The Key government chose to buy ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: why the TPP is something we shouldn’t sign
Tuesday, 26 January 2016, 2:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on why the TPP is something we shouldn’t sign, and that Labour should oppose More >>
Gordon Campbell on Paula Bennett’s fantasy politics and Iran
Friday, 22 January 2016, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
We seem to be living in an era of virtual government, where governments promote only an illusion of policy kapow! rather than the sort of leadership where real solutions are proposed, funded and enacted. Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett’s latest ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on China, Oscar racism and Kate Tempest
Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
China, China, China… Donald Trump is not the only one obsessed with the Middle Kingdom these days. For the past year or more, countries have been warning each other about their economic dependence on China and New Zealand is no exception. China is ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the myopia of the business news
Monday, 18 January 2016, 10:24 am | Gordon Campbell
Listening to the business news is a bit like eavesdropping on the radio transmissions from space aliens. There is no discernible connection between the concerns of the captains of these space ships – the bank economists and the finance house spokesmen ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on making the media pay for OIA requests
Friday, 15 January 2016, 9:37 am | Gordon Campbell
So it seems that since November, the Reserve Bank has been quietly enacting a policy of charging the media for Official Information Act requests . More >>
Gordon Campbell on Clinton, Sanders, Trump and Cruz
Thursday, 14 January 2016, 9:59 am | Gordon Campbell
Come November, the world will have a new US president-elect and the least unlikely winner still looks to be Hillary Clinton. Right now though, the polls are showing a rocky stretch ahead for her in the immediate future. It is still three weeks before ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on David Bowie
Tuesday, 12 January 2016, 10:00 am | Gordon Campbell
W ith hindsight, this last week must have been a race to get David Bowie’s final album Blackstar out – and reviewed – before his death overwhelmed how the album would be received. Gratifyingly, Blackstar came out last Friday on his 69th birthday, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Podemos, and Spain’s election stalemate
Friday, 8 January 2016, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
The events of 2015 taught us a lot about the potential ( and the limits) of left wing populism. Syriza in Greece had started the year as the harbinger of change – offering a genuine alternative to the politics of austerity and to a European Union ... More >>
