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Campbell: University essays for hire, and depression
Monday, 13 May 2013, 9:41 am | Gordon Campbell
Unfortunately, the buying and selling of ghost-written university essays has been part of academic culture for decades. In the mid 1980s for instance, to cite just one of many examples… the late, revered novelist David Foster Wallace used to earn ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: National owes gratitude to Aaron Gilmore
Friday, 10 May 2013, 9:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Comes the time, comes the man. Aaron Gilmore has become the poster child for everything that is loathsome about politicians and the political process. However, it might be time for a sense of proportion to creep into the Gilmore saga. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Mighty River Power debacle
Thursday, 9 May 2013, 10:34 am | Gordon Campbell
Abuse directed at anyone opposed to what you’re wanting to do. Repeated mis-representations of what you said, and did. Not to mention the flat denials that there is a problem, when the evidence happens to contradict your version of events. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the GCSB’s enhanced role
Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 11:20 am | Gordon Campbell
Remember when the creeping power of Big Government was being manifested only in …the energy efficiency regulations for household appliances? Back in 2008, that seemed scary enough for the likes of David Farrar to sound the alarm in these aghast terms: ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on yesterday’s Anzac Day celebrations
Friday, 26 April 2013, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday’s Anzac Day saw the usual strong turnout at dawn ceremonies, to mark an occasion that is already displacing Waitangi Day – if we can believe the newspaper polls – as the de facto day on which we celebrate our national identity. More >>
Gordon Campbell: lurching towards the centre on power prices
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 9:33 am | Gordon Campbell
Anyone looking for legacy traces of the late Margaret Thatcher in New Zealand politics will have found them in the government’s scare tactics – “a lurch to the left” – being used to denigrate the Labour/Green plan to crack down on energy price profiteering. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Labour/Greens plan to cut power bills
Monday, 22 April 2013, 10:34 am | Gordon Campbell
As sure as night follows day, you could bet some financial analyst would see the death of the free market in the plans unveiled last week by Labour and the Greens to put an end to price gouging within our electricity system. Take a bow, Craig Stent ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the same-sex marriage vote, and Dotcom
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Since politics is so often about the perpetuation of privilege, we should all celebrate the times when Parliament gets something right. The passage of Louisa Wall’s same sex marriage Bill last night was one such occasion. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the GCSB's practice of spying on NZers
Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 10:07 am | Gordon Campbell
It is hard to decide what is the most alarming aspect of Prime Minister John Key’s plans to expand the role of Big Brother. Or, as Key describes it, his "proposals to significantly strengthen the oversight regime across the intelligence community." More >>
Gordon Campbell on Criminalising Protest, and Cathedrals
Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 10:35 am | Gordon Campbell
The Tauranga MP Simon Bridges – he’s also the Labour Minister and the Minister of Energy and Resources - is carving out quite a niche for himself, on the gratuitous side of Tory politics. First, we had his brushing aside of official advice to raise ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s gaffe about North Korea
Monday, 8 April 2013, 9:58 am | Gordon Campbell
Just how Prime Minister John Key thought that invoking the “proud history” of our 1950s Korean War contribution would help to minimize the current tensions on the Korean peninsula is anyone’s guess. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Ian Fletcher, Jon Stewart and avian flu
Friday, 5 April 2013, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
At this point, the Ian Fletcher affair risks getting lost in the‘angels on pinheads’ detail that fascinates the Beltway, and bores the pants off everyone else. What remains clear is that Prime Minister John Key intervened and changed the selection process ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the GCSB, and bird flu scares in Beijing
Thursday, 4 April 2013, 10:41 am | Gordon Campbell
In our political system, which has few checks and balances – a single chamber Parliament, no written Constitution, a weak Bill of Rights etc – a lot has to be taken on trust. For instance: there is a lack of any genuine oversight mechanisms on how the SIS ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the smelter and its impact on asset sales
Wednesday, 3 April 2013, 11:06 am | Gordon Campbell
Mum and Dad investors were supposed to be plain ordinary folks that the government was rewarding with the option of buying ...er, of re-buying a stake in the energy companies they already own. Not any more. Clearly, those ordinary Mums and Dads will ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the US injustice that Dotcom faces
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 11:49 am | Gordon Campbell
This month’s Werewolf cover story is about the Kim Dotcom extradition case and is available here, but there’s an interesting footnote…This week, ABC television news in the States ran an AP story about how and why the Eastern Virginia District ... More >>
Will Kim Dotcom get a raw deal at his extradition hearing?
Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
The world used to be a simpler, black and white place. The fugitives being sought for extradition used to be alleged bank robbers or murderers or fraudsters where – once the false moustache and dyed hair had been done away with – it was obvious ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on latest falling out among Syria’s rebels
Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
Routinely, US foreign policy in the Middle East seems to suffer from a karmic backlash. Ten years ago, the Iraq invasion was supposed to produce a democratic state that further isolate Iran’s Shia revolution. Instead, the March 2003 invasion has installed ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Susan Devoy, and the Gillard non-coup
Friday, 22 March 2013, 9:51 am | Gordon Campbell
It is hard to tell which aspect of Susan Devoy becoming Race Relations Commissioner is worse. Was it the selection of someone who plainly has no skills for a job requiring tolerance and empathy – or was it the rationalisation offered by Justice Minister ... More >>
Campbell: The official plan to steal from your bank account
Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
Put your money in the bank, not under the mattress. That’s always been a mantra, especially for people who don’t want to speculate in property or the sharemarket, and who don’t want to run the risk of putting their savings into shonky finance ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Solid Energy debacle
Friday, 15 March 2013, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
So according to its former chairman John Palmer, Solid Energy could have done nothing about the sudden and dramatic fall in the price of coal. Move on, no one to blame here. It was just like the Christchurch earthquake, an act of nature. Except of course, ... More >>
