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Gordon Campbell on our Feeble Response to Atrocities in SA
Wednesday, 6 January 2016, 9:39 am | Gordon Campbell
With an ally like Saudi Arabia, who needs enemies? In the past 15 years, the West can thank the House of Saud for More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Dotcom extradition decision
Thursday, 24 December 2015, 9:39 am | Gordon Campbell
Inevitably – and with justification – Kim Dotcom has already lodged an appeal against yesterday’s District Court decision that he is eligible for extradition to the United States, to face copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the rejection of a Pakistani polio worker
Wednesday, 23 December 2015, 11:33 am | Gordon Campbell
Too bad that the New Zealand Immigration and Protection (hah!) Tribunal don’t know how to use Google . If they did, their bizarre decision to send home a former polio vaccinator and her son back to Pakistan -on the grounds that they would be ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s endorsement of a combat role
Tuesday, 22 December 2015, 10:36 am | Gordon Campbell
N ormally, it is governments that drop their unpalatable measures in the shadow of Christmas, but this time the Labour Opposition is doing so. Apparently, if certain pre-conditions are met – UN sanctioned, clear objectives, acceptable level of risk ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Police harassment of Nicky Hager
Friday, 18 December 2015, 10:45 am | Gordon Campbell
So now we know. If you’ve done something to really annoy the Establishment – hello, Kim Dotcom, Heather Du Plessis Allen, Nicky Hager and teapot tapes photographer Bradley Ambrose - not only will you rocket to the top of the priority list for the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on how the Republicans just buried the TPP
Thursday, 17 December 2015, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
In case you were still holding your breath about the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, you can relax. For months, it has seemed increasingly unlikely that a Republican- dominated Congress would ratify the TPP, and the battle lines have now been drawn. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on MP pay rises, and the Paris agreement
Tuesday, 15 December 2015, 9:55 am | Gordon Campbell
Somehow, the ‘need” for belt tightening - or of stemming the rise in income inequality – just goes right out the window at this time of the year. Scads of money can always be found for backdated pay increases to MPs . More >>
Gordon Campbell on Tim Groser’s new job in Washington
Wednesday, 9 December 2015, 9:27 am | Gordon Campbell
If you ever played word association games with the name “ Tim Groser” it would normally take a long, long time for anyone to suggest him as an ideal match for the word “diplomatic.” That’s why his retirement from Parliament earlier this week ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the view from Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
Thursday, 3 December 2015, 5:24 pm | Gordon Campbell
Sorry for being out of radio contact overseas for much of this week, even as the Cunliffe/Mahuta duo were being deep-sixed by that feisty Labour leader Andrew Little. (Actually, I’ll believe “feisty” when Little says “goodnight and goodbye” ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Turkey And Russia
Friday, 27 November 2015, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
So why did Turkey shoot down that Russian plane? According to the Russian president Dmitri Medvedev, it was all about Turkey (a) being hand in glove with Islamic State in general, and (b) wanting to protect the lucrative joint Turkish/Islamic State ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Phil Goff mayoral candidacy
Tuesday, 24 November 2015, 9:41 am | Gordon Campbell
What is about the centre right in Auckland? There they are, in the citadel of commerce, and yet they’re routinely unable to put up a credible mayoral candidate to run the place. All they’ve got for now is poor old Mark Thomas, the former National ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on why IS’s weakness makes it more dangerous
Friday, 20 November 2015, 10:39 am | Gordon Campbell
One of the great things about writing online is that if you have a bad morning, readers will pick up on it, and take you to task. I’m totally willing to concede that my last column a couple of days ago on the Paris terrorism attacks wasn’t ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Islam and the Paris attacks
Tuesday, 17 November 2015, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
According to polls, a third of Republican voters in Iowa want Islam to be criminalized . Unfortunately, the cornfields of middle America aren’t the only place that ‘Islam’ is being blamed for the terrorism attacks in Paris. More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s detainee do’s and don’ts list
Friday, 13 November 2015, 10:10 am | Gordon Campbell
Since Prime Minister John Key plainly has trouble with the leadership thing, maybe we should keep it simple for him. So, here’s a list of what he should do, and what he shouldn’t do when it comes to the brutal detention/deportation of New Zealand ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the John Key smear attack
Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
The rationale behind Prime Minister John Key’s smear attack against Labour yesterday (and the subsequent walkout from Parliament) was obvious enough. When you’re in a hole, don’t even try to explain... More >>
Gordon Campbell on holding the powerful to account
Thursday, 5 November 2015, 10:17 am | Gordon Campbell
Don’t know how you feel about it, but the selective unavailability of Ministers and senior public servants to media scrutiny seems to be a growing concern. Regularly on RNZ – which usefully reports when this occurs – an issue will arise that begs ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Malcolm Turnbull, and rugby mania
Tuesday, 3 November 2015, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
When Malcolm Turnbull took over as PM across the Tasman, much was made of him citing the populist touch of Prime Minister John Key – who, Turnbull noted, had managed to keep the electorate onside while making significant changes. It says a lot about ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the deliberate non-defeat of IS
Thursday, 29 October 2015, 10:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Unlike the US and (allies like New Zealand) Russia and Iran have a very clear goal for their intervention in Syria. Russia and Iran want the Assad regime to survive and prevail against an Islamic State that they regard as a mere proxy of the Saudi/Israeli/US ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the gender pay gap
Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 10:10 am | Gordon Campbell
Care to know what Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence thinks about the gender wage gap? No? Well, I suppose she is only (a) a successful entertainer and (b) a 25 year old woman, so… what would she know about politics? Whereas men who succeed in business ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on copyright, the Authors Guild case & TPP
Friday, 23 October 2015, 10:35 am | Gordon Campbell
A few days ago, Google finally and comprehensively won a very long-running case brought against it by the Authors Guild which had claimed that Google’s Book Project – which operates as a digital library catalogue with a few snippets of content ... More >>
