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Gordon Campbell on Cunliffe winning the Labour leadership
Monday, 16 September 2013, 10:25 am | Gordon Campbell
Finally, David Cunliffe can begin the task of rebuilding and repositioning the Labour Party that should have occurred at the end of the Helen Clark era in 2008. For the last five years, Labour has slowly chuntered downhill under Phil Goff and David Shearer, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Anti-Key rhetoric | Putin's Plan For Syria
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 9:51 am | Gordon Campbell
It goes without saying that Labour supporters don’t like Prime Minister John Key very much. And since it will be Labour Party members, unions and Labour MPs who will decide the leadership contest, it was inevitable that hating on John Key would become ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the selective morality towards Syria
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 10:02 am | Gordon Campbell
As Prime Minister John Key said at yesterday's post-Cabinet press conference, the briefings on Syria and the exchanges of views New Zealand has been engaged in with its allies has indicated to him that "regime change" (i.e., the toppling of the Assad ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Labour leadership race
Friday, 6 September 2013, 11:08 am | Gordon Campbell
In Papal elections, the front-runner is often doomed to disappointment, as the weaker factions combine and wear the main contender down. Not always (e.g. Pius XII) but often enough to create the saying that the favoured candidate goes into the papal ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the asset sales referendum victory
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 9:36 am | Gordon Campbell
All credit to Grey Power and the Greens for getting across the sky high threshold required to trigger a Citizens Initiated Referendum (CIR) on the asset sales programme. It has been a remarkable organizational feat, given the number of signatures required, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Police refusal to prosecute the GCSB
Friday, 30 August 2013, 9:58 am | Gordon Campbell
The last gift from David Shearer to the National Party was his resignation, which has happily diverted the media into weeks of speculation about his successor. In the process, this has taken the heat off Prime Minister John Key over the GCSB. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the risks of intervention in Syria
Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 10:24 am | Gordon Campbell
As Barack Obama considers the US-led response to the gas attack in Syria, the nuances of that response are getting more, not less difficult. How do you concoct a response - an air strike - that will significantly hurt the Assad regime, but without tipping ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s alleged divisions
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 10:41 am | Gordon Campbell
When you’re languishing in Opposition, the divisions in caucus are evident, the ideological nerve ends all too nakedly exposed. Everyone in the lifeboat has different ideas about the personalities and policies required to win their way back to power. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Shearer’s exit, and where to from here
Friday, 23 August 2013, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
Some political animals would have grasped for survival at the results of the latest Roy Morgan poll, which showed National losing ground and with the Labour/Greens combined vote exceeding the centre right – such that if an election was held on its basis, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on asset sales and bad news from Afghanistan
Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 10:01 am | Gordon Campbell
New Zealand has already spent $30 million as a gift to Rio Tinto over the Tiwau Point aluminium smelter – essentially, to buy the government the breathing space it needed to offload the partial privatization of Meridian Energy, for the benefit of a tiny ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the final round for the GCSB Bill
Tuesday, 20 August 2013, 10:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Having tried and failed to sell the GCSB Bill by invoking the bogeyman of terrorism – “PM Justifies Spy Bill : Kiwis trained by al Qaeda" – the government has resorted to its ace card whenever it gets in real trouble, and invoked the PM’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Egypt, the F-35 and Nanny National
Friday, 16 August 2013, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday, this column compared events in Egypt to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and – spookily – there is now an image to drive that comparison home. This picture of an Egyptian woman facing up to an armoured bulldozer is very much ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the latest events in Egypt
Thursday, 15 August 2013, 10:53 am | Gordon Campbell
The bloody events in Egypt have a familiar ring. The “clearing” of long term encampments convened as a passive protest in defence of democracy. The brutal application of military force. More >>
Gordon Campbell on profit potential ahead of human potential
Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Does New Zealand – despite our claims to egalitarianism and everyone being equal before the law – treat the people engaged in tax evasion more leniently than the people who commit welfare fraud? Yes, we do. (Why we do is the real issue.) More >>
Gordon Campbell on the smelter deal, Fonterra and Iran
Friday, 9 August 2013, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, it does seem that about $30 million is the kind of pocket money that the government has readily at hand to throw at foreign corporates - at Warners over The Hobbit, and now at Rio Tinto over the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Fonterra milk powder scandal
Monday, 5 August 2013, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
The Fonterra tainted milk powder scandal is at risk of becoming the export equivalent of foot and mouth disease, and needs expert management now to staunch the damage. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Vance phone scandal
Thursday, 1 August 2013, 9:58 am | Gordon Campbell
Pity the poor Prime Minister. The phone records of Fairfax reporter Andrea Vance? Don’t look at him. Once again, John Key has been let down by his minions, or by the people who were misled or intimidated into compliance by his staff’s overtures, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Manning conviction | Dotcom’s latest round
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 9:59 am | Gordon Campbell
So, in a US kangaroo court, the sole presiding judge has found Bradley Manning guilty of espionage, theft and fraud under the US Espionage Act of 1917. So much for the whistle blower defence, and for Manning’s claim that his actions were intended ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Defence Force’s paranoia about journalism
Monday, 29 July 2013, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
If the thousands of people who marched on the weekend against the GCSB Bill wanted further justification for their concerns, the Defence Force has just provided it with bells on. More >>
Gordon Campbell on why Miyazaki is fighting Japan’s new PM
Friday, 26 July 2013, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
Everyone likes the new-ish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right? Why, his so called “Abe-nomics” promises to deliver Japan from two decades of economic malaise, by embracing the supply side prescriptions endorsed by right thinking folks within ... More >>
