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Gordon Campbell on the ongoing fallout from Hager's book
Friday, 15 August 2014, 9:55 am | Gordon Campbell
Call me old-fashioned, but ad hominem attacks have almost seemed the last refuge of a scoundrel. That doesn’t mean you can’t reach a conclusion or make a judgement call – but you need to be guided by the evidence. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Nicky Hager’s new book
Thursday, 14 August 2014, 10:32 am | Gordon Campbell
According to Minister of Everything Steven Joyce – whose duties now extend to fielding questions about Nicky Hager’s new book Dirty Politics - Hager has got it all wrong, and the apparent collusion recorded in its pages between the prime minister’s office ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on dropping bait for election coverage
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 10:59 am | Gordon Campbell
Getting yourself criticised by the educated elite is a well-worn path to electoral success in this country, dating all the way back to Rob Muldoon and the Citizens for Rowling campaign, which played right into his hands. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the US rescue mission in Iraq
Monday, 11 August 2014, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
It isn’t often that unilateral US bombing raids within a foreign country can be supported, but the current US bombing campaign in northern Iraq is one such case. The fighters of the Islamic State (IS) appear to be intent on committing genocide ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Internet Mana’s swearing video
Friday, 8 August 2014, 1:52 pm | Gordon Campbell
Hand on heart time, folks. At any time in the past six years, has the thought “ F+++ John Key” ever crossed your mind? I know it has crossed mine, from time to time. I think it was about the time that he sold down everyone’s shares in our ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Gaza truce, and ‘human shields’
Friday, 8 August 2014, 1:13 pm | Gordon Campbell
While the truce in Gaza allows time for negotiations on a more lasting solution, the current signs emerging from the Israeli side are not encouraging. Gaza has been devastated. It has no functioning water supply or electricity system and many, many ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Winston Peters as an endangered species
Wednesday, 6 August 2014, 11:02 am | Gordon Campbell
It is still anyone’s guess which major party will Winston Peters support after Election Day 2014, though suspicions are rife. But if we’re being reduced to guesswork, it seems more rewarding to speculate on the chances that New Zealand First will not ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on how Gaza affects our UN bid
Tuesday, 5 August 2014, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
At an international level, the Key government is waging another election campaign right now, to win a temporary seat on the UN Security Council. So far, the government’s tepid response to the carnage in Gaza has done nothing but erode our only real selling ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the rise of ISIS, and Labour
Friday, 1 August 2014, 11:19 am | Gordon Campbell
While global attention got distracted by the fate of MH17 and the atrocities in Gaza, the world’s other mega ‘bad news’ story – the rise of ISIS-led fundamentalism in Iraq - has reached a tipping point. More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s electorate deals
Tuesday, 29 July 2014, 9:13 am | Gordon Campbell
For all the talk yesterday from Prime Minister John Key about National being transparent about its electorate deals in Epsom and Ohariu, that transparency is entirely front-loaded. Yes, we know a lot about how Act and United Future are going to get into Parliament, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Gaza and burning the Israeli flag
Thursday, 24 July 2014, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
One of the selling points in New Zealand’s campaign for a temporary seat on the Security Council is that we have a pluckily independent voice to offer on international conflicts. This image is not entirely self-delusional. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the non-apology to Tania Billingsley
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
The refusal by Prime Minister John Key to issue a personal apology to Tania Billingsley has been accompanied by an array of excuses. Yes, there are judicial proceedings to be considered, as well an “independent inquiry” into how the incident was ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the failure to prosecute the GCSB
Friday, 18 July 2014, 9:50 am | Gordon Campbell
So one hand of the state – the Independent Police Conduct Authority - has now washed the hands of its brother agencies, and declared that all hands are clean. Case closed. Does anyone feel re-assured by this exercise in familial self-exoneration? More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Dotcom emails
Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
Back in 2010 at least, the email trail recently released to David Fisher of the NZ Herald shows that the Immigration Service had found an interesting niche in business migrants: people who (a) have $10 million or more spare change to invest in this ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the shonky Police statistics, and Gaza
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
When people systematically alter how being statistics are recorded in order to gain personal and organisational advantage, that’s usually when the Police get called in. Yet in the case of the burglary statistics in Counties-Manakau, it was the Police ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on TPP talks and the election in Afghanistan
Friday, 11 July 2014, 11:30 am | Gordon Campbell
As negotiators gather in Ottawa this week for the latest round of talks on the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, the opposition to (a) the TPP deal itself and (b) the Trade Promotion Authority needed to pass it into US law is increasing within ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: today’s presidential elections in Indonesia
Wednesday, 9 July 2014, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
Indonesia is holding presidential elections later today. As usual, New Zealand seems completely uninterested in what happens in Indonesia – even though our huge neighbor is the world’s third biggest democracy and the largest Muslim country on the planet. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the BNP Paribas case, and Dotcom
Tuesday, 8 July 2014, 1:55 pm | Gordon Campbell
So the extradition hearing for Kim Dotcom has been delayed until next February. In another long running drama, a final deal on the Trans Pacific Partnership trade pact is hoped for by year’s end. If a TPP deal is completed by that date, US President ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the diplomatic immunity fallout at MFAT
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 10:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Terrific. I’m glad that Murray McCully is well and truly determined to get to the bottom of who screwed up the Malaysian diplomatic immunity case, and when he finally finds out who was Foreign Affairs Minister at the time…boy, I wouldn’t ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Murray McCully’s avoidance strategy
Wednesday, 2 July 2014, 10:10 am | Gordon Campbell
Blame the officials. Go to ground. Looks like standard operational procedure for Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully, this time with respect to Malaysia over the diplomatic immunity case. Domestically, our government has needed to look tough ... More >>
