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On Bill English’s politicizing earthquake response & the RWC
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 10:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Much of the inspirational rhetoric surrounding the Christchurch earthquake has had a genuine “We’re all in this together” quality. Certainly, most of the political benefits the quake has delivered to the government have sprung from that same unity ... More >>
On New Zealand’s links with Muammar Ghaddafi
Friday, 25 February 2011, 11:04 am | Gordon Campbell
As Libya’s dictator Muammar Ghadaffi continues to murder and terrorise his people in an attempt to cling onto power, surely Education Minister Anne Tolley will sometime soon – but don’t hold your breath – move to annul the deal she signed with ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Welfare Working Group final report
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 10:39 am | Gordon Campbell
Bureaucrats and academics tend to enjoy playing God with the lives of the vulnerable – but evidently, even the Welfare Working Group members couldn’t agree on some of the loonier recommendations contained in their final report this week. Only ‘a ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on taxing purchases from Amazon, and Egypt
Friday, 18 February 2011, 10:03 am | Gordon Campbell
The current problems facing the retail book trade – and music stores – in New Zealand will increase the pressure on Revenue Minister Peter Dunne to impose a tougher tax collecting system on purchases made online. Currently only items worth $400 (or ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the martyrdom of Hone Harawira
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 12:37 pm | Gordon Campbell
The notion of a Maori Party suffering patiently for five years with an untrustworthy and disruptive Hone Harawira requires a rewrite of history that isn’t credible. Let's get it straight. The Maori Party wanted a genuine radical on the team. It recruited ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: ongoing saga of prisoners' right to vote
Monday, 7 February 2011, 9:55 am | Gordon Campbell
Last year, and despite the objections of its own Attorney-General, the Key government removed the right of all prisoners to vote. That puts us outside normal practice in most of the developed world. This week, Thomas Hammerberg, the European commissioner ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Winston Peters veto
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
So if voters return Winston Peters in government, the National Party will not work with him in any governing coalition. Fair enough. It is up to any party to decide when co-operation with a rival would entail an intolerable compromise of its core ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Mubarak’s divide and rule tactics
Wednesday, 2 February 2011, 9:46 am | Gordon Campbell
If regime change does eventually occur in Egypt, a truly representative government in Cairo would be less pro-American, and less likely to collude with Israel’s plans for the region. To take the most obvious example, a truly democratic Egypt would ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s feeble response to Egypt
Tuesday, 1 February 2011, 10:26 am | Gordon Campbell
On Monday’s TVNZ’s Breakfast programme Key seemed to be regarding a nation’s stance towards Israel as being the basis of our foreign policy attitude towards them. That is the only conclusion that can be drawn from this bizarre exchange More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Govt’s lame response to Jafar Panahi
Monday, 31 January 2011, 10:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Down at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there’s a reason why they use terms like “the cocktail circuit’ and “in diplomatic circles.” It is because so much of the art and process of diplomacy is circular in form. It involves moving around ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Hone Harawira, & Jafar Panahi at the Oscars
Friday, 28 January 2011, 11:01 am | Gordon Campbell
None of the recommendations from yesterday’s hui in the Te Tai Tokerau electorate are likely to delight the Maori Party leadership, but the one that will irritate them the most is the call for Hone Harawira to be allowed to go on a nationwide tour ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the plans for privatization
Thursday, 27 January 2011, 9:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Hard to see how opening the door to greater demands for higher profits from state energy companies will result in reduced power prices – or that “Mum and Dad” investors will be the real beneficiaries of the plans for partial privatization announced ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the options facing Hone Harawira
Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 9:41 am | Gordon Campbell
Image Gordon Campbell interviews Hone Harawira In the immediate aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis in the 1960s, US Secretary of State Dean Rusk issued the famous (and famously scary) verdict : “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the campaign to free Jafar Panahi
Tuesday, 18 January 2011, 10:18 am | Gordon Campbell
Just before Christmas , Scoop reported on the silencing of Iran’s leading film-maker, Jafar Panahi. Panahi has been imprisoned by the authorities for six years and banned from making movies, going abroad, or talking to the media for 20 years. As part what ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on economic reporting, & Assange sex charges
Friday, 14 January 2011, 10:00 am | Gordon Campbell
Judging by the Christmas retail figures for electronic card transactions the New Zealand economy is still in traction, with consumers still reluctant and/or unable to spend. December saw in fact, a seasonally adjusted decline in core retail spending, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell Reviews The General Response To Wikileaks
Thursday, 6 January 2011, 1:31 pm | Gordon Campbell
Surprisingly, there still seem to be a few liberals out there who regard Wikileaks as operating in a morally fraught, grey zone. As if there was something shady, or a back of the bike-sheds taint of irresponsibility to what Wikileaks has done. (For ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the government’s war with itself
Friday, 24 December 2010, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
All hands in the crew steering the good ship NZ Inc are supposed to be (a) pulling their own weight and (b) pulling in the same direction. Clearly, this wasn’t the case here in a http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10696349 ... More >>
Helen Clark’s sob story & persecution of Jafar Panahi
Wednesday, 22 December 2010, 10:32 am | Gordon Campbell
So former Prime Minister Helen Clark is ‘incensed’ at US diplomatic cables that suggests her real reason for sending New Zealand engineers into Iraq , was to retain Fonterra’s access to the lucrative UN oil-for-food programme. Apparently, the speculation ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the fiasco in overseas aid funding
Friday, 17 December 2010, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
The personal vendetta being waged by Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully against aid sector NGOs has now reached its inevitable, illogical conclusion – half of the applications for aid projects (60 out 104 submitted) have been rejected, chaos ... More >>
On faster (pricier) broadband, and NZ's Afghan delusions
Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
As the government gradually releases the detail of its ultrafast broadband package, it is becoming clear that this initiative will not be the boon for ordinary households that the government has been painting it to be. In an interesting piece in the Sunday ... More >>
