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Gordon Campbell on Italy, politics and the Rugby World Cup
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
Silvio Berlusconi really needs Italy to win the Rugby World Cup, or an equivalent miracle. While he faces prosecution for his personal misdeeds, his party’s popularity has hit rock bottom at home, with current opinion polls showing barely 20-22 % support. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Oil (& Other Matters) in the New Libya
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 10:14 am | Gordon Campbell
The fighters in western Libya who captured the supply line towns on the way into Tripoli and made the final push into the capital do not come from the same tribal/political factions that started the rebellion in Benghazi to the east, six months ago... More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Release Of The West Memphis Three
Monday, 22 August 2011, 10:07 am | Gordon Campbell
Good news stories are few and far between, and the release from jail of the West Memphis Three is definitely one of those moments to celebrate… After 18 years, the persecution of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Miskelley is finally at ... More >>
Some Good News: Release of WM3
Sunday, 21 August 2011, 11:31 am | Gordon Campbell
G ood news stories are few and far between, and the release from jail of the West Memphis Three is definitely one of those moments to celebrate…After 18 years, the persecution of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Miskelley is finally at end, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Syria, and lessons of the British riots
Friday, 19 August 2011, 12:23 pm | Gordon Campbell
The call this morning by the Obama administration for Bashir al-Assad to leave office in Syria, and the US imposition of sanctions has been echoed by similar moves from the EU. On the surface, the human rights atrocities committed by the Syrian military ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Russia and the Rugby World Cup
Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 11:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Between early September and late October, New Zealand will be hosting teams from 19 countries for the Rugby World Cup. This column will try to outline the political situation in as many of them as I can before kick-off day on September 9, starting ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the plans to Americanise welfare
Monday, 15 August 2011, 11:39 am | Gordon Campbell
What is it about National’s plans for welfare reform and natural disasters? On the same day in February that the Welfare Working Group released its loopy agenda of reform proposals – which included the option of sterilising welfare miscreants ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Christchurch rebuild & SIS politics
Friday, 12 August 2011, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
Probably, some will regard the height restriction of seven stories for the rebuild of Christchurch’s central city area as being unnecessarily arbitrary and uniform, and business lobbyists have already told RNZ this morning that the height restriction ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the riots in Britain
Thursday, 11 August 2011, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
So far, reaction to the riots in Britain has moved beyond the initial phase of surprise and bewilderment and we’re now firmly into the crackdown phase. More >>
Gordon Campbell: The Right’s Lethal Plan for Global Economy
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 9:49 am | Gordon Campbell
Stock markets jittery, the price of gold heading through the roof... the vandalising of the US economy by the Republican Party is showing every sign of having global repercussions, as last week’s concerns about debt have mutated into this week’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Barack Obama’s debt deal
Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 9:30 am | Gordon Campbell
If nothing else, Barack Obama’s tactics during the debt ceiling crisis have clarified how he plans to run for President next year: not as a candidate of the centre left, but as the reasonable, moderate hostage of a deranged Republican Party More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Lieutenant O’Donnell inquiry
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 9:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday’s report into the death last year in Afghanistan of Lieutenant Tim O’Donnell has found shortcomings in the training of New Zealand troops (a) with respect to IEDs or Improvised Explosive Devices, (b) with the ability to call in air strikes ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Norway massacre
Monday, 25 July 2011, 9:46 am | Gordon Campbell
As the work of a homegrown right wing dissident, the Norway massacre clearly has more in common with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing carried out by Timothy McVeigh than with the jihadist attacks launched on 9/11. Unfortunately, the lack of any links ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: SAS defence of Afghanistan’s drug barons
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 9:21 am | Gordon Campbell
A typical day at the office for the New Zealand forces in Afghanistan. On one hand, we passed the command of the Bamiyan provincial reconstruction team project over to our Afghan allies, while - on the other – our SAS forces “helped” Afghan ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s tax package (and Rupert Murdoch)
Friday, 15 July 2011, 12:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
For once, the tax package gives Labour a potent set of policies that is consistent with what the party routinely says it stands for, yet so rarely does. Suddenly, Labour appears to be setting the policy debate parameters for this election, a situation ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Don Brash’s race gambit (and Hugh Grant)
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 10:12 am | Gordon Campbell
It must have been a grim moment indeed in the Act Party offices when the Resurrection of Orewa went up on the whiteboard as the last, best chance to revive the party’s fortunes. The prelude hadn’t been too flash, either. Clearly the second coming ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the capital gains tax debate
Thursday, 7 July 2011, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
The fact that, at last, one of New Zealand’s major parties has embraced the kind of tax on capital gains common in every other developed country on the planet marks a turning point in the country’s economic history. If they were smart, National’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the bailout in Greece
Wednesday, 6 July 2011, 11:29 am | Gordon Campbell
Evidently, the recent attempt by EMA boss Alisdair Thompson to justify the gender pay gap has been just the tip of the iceberg. In the Dom-Post yesterday, columnist Richard Long used similarly immutable stereotypes to analyse the Eurozone’s bailout ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: National’s neglect of the armed forces
Friday, 1 July 2011, 12:18 pm | Gordon Campbell
Only a National government could get away with the changes in the New Zealand Defence Force now taking place – ie in the wake of the so called “civilianisation” drive – without a hue and cry about how these outbreaks of rampant ideology and ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Te Tai Tokerau result
Monday, 27 June 2011, 9:58 am | Gordon Campbell
In the wake of his victory in the Te Tai Tokerau by-election, Hone Harawira has run strategic rings around the Maori Party by offering an ostensible olive branch to them to work together for the good of Maori, and having that offer soundly rejected ... More >>
