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Guest Opinion: Is Kiwi Greatness Just A Façade?
Monday, 19 September 2005, 2:37 pm | Guest Opinion
I thought that we kiwis were different. How foolish of me. It seems that nothing is more universal in politics than the currency of self-interest. Dr Don Brash’s tax cut package and callous disregard for our nation’s founding document appears ... More >>
Shaqa’iq (Sisters) Reforming The Middle East
Monday, 19 September 2005, 1:38 pm | Guest Opinion
Shaqa’iq is a series of video profiles of Arabic speaking girls, young women, and the male influencers in their lives, focusing on education, career, and technology. The series highlights different career choices for women, features advice from successful ... More >>
Eyewitness: Hurricane Katrina-Our Experience
Friday, 16 September 2005, 11:17 am | Guest Opinion
Eyewitness Report From New Orleans Hurricane Katrina-Our Experiences By Larry Bradshaw, Lorrie Beth Slonsky More >>
Guest Opinion: How Do Governments Fail The People?
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 2:29 pm | Guest Opinion
Governments fail the people when politics equals economics and laws are made or changed without fully considering the social consequences for all people: rich and poor, men, women and children, different ethnic groups, different races, and indigenous ... More >>
Dr Jon Johansson: On Treaty and Race
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 4:07 pm | Guest Opinion
In a few days New Zealanders will go to the polls with our eclectic mix of motivations. Some of us will vote according to the party we identify most strongly with, or against, some of us will vote in self-interest, some will vote with their hearts, some will ... More >>
Eyewitness Account: Marooned At The Ritz
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 10:44 am | Guest Opinion
Eyewitness Account: Marooned At The Ritz - Stranded in New Orleans during Katrina, medical professionals set up a treatment center at the Ritz Carlton. by Joseph Pulvirenti, M.D. More >>
Migrant Effect - The Changing Face of NZ Voters
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 12:52 am | Guest Opinion
This year, as with every election year, migration is a hot issue amongst politicians vying for the public’s vote. Like a repetitive tune stuck on replay, at election time we hear racist jibes being thrown at migrants and ethnic groups that do not ... More >>
Ajay P. Nath: Peace And Stability in Nepal
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 12:04 am | Guest Opinion
The American president's recent statement on terrorism was the strongest so far against the enemy of freedom and human civilisation. He just doesn't believe in any form of compromise and does not show the slightest hint of it. More >>
Opinion: The Real Scandal Unveiled By Katrina
Monday, 12 September 2005, 11:28 am | Guest Opinion
The body of a human being lying lifeless on the street is always an unsettling sight. I had seen them more than once while on human rights missions abroad. But there was something particularly disturbing about seeing a corpse stretched on the sidewalk ... More >>
Why India Is Blamed For All Debacles?
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:15 pm | Guest Opinion
India is blamed for the well-knitted and unprecedented bombings of August 17 and all other debacles occurred in Bangladesh. Some blame India directly mentioning its name, while others accuse her indirectly without mentioning her name. Whenever any ... More >>
Sobia Nisar: Indian Insurgent Activities In Nepal
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:14 pm | Guest Opinion
Although Indian reporters allege Pakistan for supporting Maoist guirellas in Nepal, in reality it has always been India rather than Pakistan who has carried out insurgent activities in Bangladesh and Nepal. In order to achieve its hegemonic designs in ... More >>
Democracy and Crisis As the internal crisis
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:10 pm | Guest Opinion
It is ironic that the more this country sinks into the abyss of violence and anarchy, the more it emerges as an attractive destination for all manners of gun runners, conflict managers, crisis entrepreneurs and democracy missionaries out to make a ... More >>
Ram Shrestha: India's Mis-Guided Nepal Policy
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:10 pm | Guest Opinion
The Indian government and establishment visualize their country as possessing the manifest destiny of dominating the whole of South Asia, like their erstwhile masters of the British Raj. More so, they do consider themselves a regional power with overwhelming ... More >>
Protect Peace - Defeat Terrorism in Nepal
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:09 pm | Guest Opinion
Anarchy in the country was in extremes in the past. People lived in fear. Somebody else told me that a person was being pick-pocketed in a broad day light, and onlookers did not have guts to stop him because of a fear of retaliation. More >>
Guest Opinion: NZ & The World Police State
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:06 pm | Guest Opinion
New Zealand - Assistant Commissioner Jon White , New Zealand's top counter-terror policeman has come out saying New Zealanders may need to debate at some stage the balance between lost personal freedoms and a more secure nation1 [1] . White seems ... More >>
Unitec Lecturer Challenges Accuracy Opinion Piece
Sunday, 4 September 2005, 8:45 pm | Guest Opinion
Sione claims that 'Unitec is a University Wannabe'. Well yes and no. As Keith Rankin pointed out in his earlier piece, Unitec's argument was based on the need for dual-sector institutions which address a range of learning needs, from vocational trades through ... More >>
Sione Palu: Unitec is a University Wannabe
Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 10:47 am | Guest Opinion
Earlier this year (2005) an international expert panel arrived in Auckland to assess Unitec's application to be granted a university status. They have been battling for recognition as a university since 1999, but the management felt that the government ... More >>
R Taylor: My Solidarity To Nepal and Its People
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 10:26 am | Guest Opinion
The situation in Nepal is not simple, and is being made more confusing by on-going propaganda war. Facts, disinformation, contorted facts, and arguments/opinions and counter arguments / opinions are floating around within and it seems more so in the ... More >>
Pralhad KC: Peace A Chance And Nepal
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 10:25 am | Guest Opinion
For thirty years, I have been in the USA as a fully engaged Nepali. I am not a Diaspora Nepali, someone from a fine family who returns to the Kingdom occasionally, and speaks only to relatives. More >>
Jules Siegel: Death by Public Relations
Monday, 29 August 2005, 4:15 pm | Guest Opinion
In "War Made Easy" Norman Solomon demolishes the myth of an independent American press zealously guarding sacred values of free expression. Although strictly focusing on the shameless history of media cheerleading for the principal post-World War II ... More >>
