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Gordon Campbell on the shutdown of the US government
Friday, 4 October 2013, 12:22 pm | Gordon Campbell
Surely, isn’t it time for the Republican Party to be designated as a terrorist organisation? Their current shutdown of the federal government has been bad enough, but the jihad these fanatics have chosen to wage against the Obama administration ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key at the UN, and Breaking Bad
Monday, 30 September 2013, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Prime Minister John Key’s speech to the United Nations was aimed mainly at the audience back home, in a plucky, we’re punching above our weight sense. There’s us on the world stage, telling them what for. The content was unlikely to come as ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on muzzling the Ruataniwha dam evidence
Friday, 27 September 2013, 10:11 am | Gordon Campbell
In case anyone still questions the value of our public investment in state radio, the revelations about the Ruataniwha dam project - which began with an RNZ report into the suppression of Department of Conservation criticism - should be laying any ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Labour reshuffle
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 10:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Like a dog with a bone, the media can’t seem to let a good angle about the Labour team reshuffle die without a fight. It has to be a story of blood and vengeance, whatever the evidence to the contrary. In fact, you could make the exact reverse ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Nick Smith saga and the America’s Cup
Friday, 20 September 2013, 11:09 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday’s attempts by Conservation Minister Nick Smith to nitpick his way out of the Ruataniwha scandal seem to have reached a stalemate. Smith continues to claim that he can credibly state he was unaware on September 17 of the existence of DOC’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Nick Smith undermining river quality
Thursday, 19 September 2013, 11:06 am | Gordon Campbell
The Ruataniwha dam proposed for Hawke’s Bay has been controversial on a number of counts, but the issues involved have just cranked up a whole new level. See if you can square these two positions - both of them to do with a critical Department ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the dubious mandate for asset sales
Tuesday, 17 September 2013, 10:52 am | Gordon Campbell
The decision to proceed with the share float of Meridian Energy is outrageous enough, given that a referendum on the entire asset sales programme is pending - and the claims by Prime Minister John Key and SOE Ministers Tony Ryall to have a mandate ... More >>
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 >>
