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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 >>
Gordon Campbell on disenfranchising prisoners
Friday, 10 December 2010, 9:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on disenfranchising prisoners, and Desperate Housewives as a Saudi tool of oppression More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Wongs, and more on Police pursuits
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 10:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Sammy Wong may not have told Lockwood Smith’s appointed Parliamentary Services investigator all of the relevant truth relating to one of Wong’s taxpayer subsidized trips to China in 2005. Wong told the investigation that the purpose of the trip ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Police pursuit deaths; Catch 22 SIS changes
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 10:08 am | Gordon Campbell
At his post Cabinet press conference yesterday, Prime Minister John Key confirmed that 18 people had died in police pursuits this year; So the SIS are to get new powers to hack computers and intercept texts. All in order to better protect our national ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Treasury’s hostility to film tax breaks
Friday, 3 December 2010, 11:47 am | Gordon Campbell
Treasury ‘s religious objection to tax breaks and the left wing’s objection to paying subsidies to US multinationals like Warners have converged in their joint hostility to the Large Budget Screen Production Grants Scheme. The tax breaks for ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Wikileaks window on US diplomacy
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 11:10 am | Gordon Campbell
By far the most interesting aspect of the Wikileaks bundle released so far though, has been the pattern of behaviour that has been revealed Yes, US diplomacy during the Bush era did fit the stereotype of the blundering global bully dimly aware, if ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Pike River inquiry
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 10:32 am | Gordon Campbell
The Royal Commission of inquiry into Pike River disaster has an open slate to identify the cause of the tragedy at this one mine, and the safety conditions in general for underground mining in New Zealand. In practice, the core questions will be as simple ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Welfare Working Group
Friday, 26 November 2010, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
So…. the overall lack of jobs in the current economy for the 338,000 people of working age on benefits is brushed aside with the non sequitur that some employers have been having problems in the past in finding people to fill some ‘entry level’ ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Mana by election results
Monday, 22 November 2010, 10:19 am | Gordon Campbell
Winnie Laban won for Labour by 6155, in a 2008 general election turnout of 82.88%. In proportion, that would translate to a Labour majority of 4199. Instead, Kris Faafoi won the seat by only 1,080 votes on the night. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the travel perks, and Ireland
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
On RNZ this morning, Speaker of the House Lockwood Smith took us back down memory lane to a bygone era when MPs lived in log cabins and traveled by horse and buggy around their vast domains, while members of their extended family licked the stamps ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Key’s illusory free trade gains
Monday, 15 November 2010, 10:31 am | Gordon Campbell
John Key’s tendency to govern by photo opportunity took a drastic new turn on the weekend. As Radio New Zealand reported this morning, the New Zealand PM emerged from the APEC meeting in Yokohama touting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact as ... More >>
On Key’s hopes for trade progress at APEC (and P)
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
Later this week, Prime Minister John Key heads off to the APEC conference in Yokohama, where his hosts seem to be living through some very interesting times. Japan’s feeble recovery is being hurt by the weak US dollar on one hand, and also by China’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Hillary Clinton visit
Friday, 5 November 2010, 9:52 am | Gordon Campbell
Only diplomats and Jesuits can probably tell the difference between previous US Secretary of State Colin Powell calling New Zealand a ‘very, very, very good friend’, and the “Wellington Declaration” agreement between the two countries signed yesterday ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Obama’s wake-up call
Thursday, 4 November 2010, 9:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Judging by yesterday’s results, the only thing Americans hate more than Big Government is Big Government that doesn’t protect them in times of economic adversity. Four years ago, the unemployment rate was below five per cent. Now, it is just below ten ... More >>
