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Opinion: Send A Submission To The ARC
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 4:04 pm | Guest Opinion
The Auckland Regional Council is soon to draw up its draft Annual Plan 2004/05 which will then go out for "public consultation". More >>
The US Defense Budget Is Bigger Than You Think
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 3:10 pm | Guest Opinion
When President Bush signed the defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2004 on November 24, 2003, the event received considerable attention in the news media. More >>
M. Shahid Alam: Semantics of Empire
Wednesday, 24 December 2003, 11:03 am | Guest Opinion
We might glean a few insights about the semantics of the global order – and the reality it tries to mask – from the way in which the United States has framed the moral case against Saddam. More >>
Guest Opinion: Oil, War and the Euro
Wednesday, 24 December 2003, 11:03 am | Guest Opinion
In attempting to make sense of the Bush administration's drive to war in Iraq, we have heard much from the White House of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. When that rationale proved to be an illusion, the administration turned to ''liberating'' ... More >>
Merry Christmas, Dubya - Love, the Pathetic Media
Wednesday, 24 December 2003, 11:01 am | Guest Opinion
I swear, if I hear one more idiot blaring at top volume and foaming at the mouth over the "liberal media" I'm gonna shoot my television. More >>
Guest Opinion: The History of Christmas
Tuesday, 23 December 2003, 2:26 pm | Guest Opinion
Christmas and Marketing… two traditions that are inseparably entwined with one another. You may have heard of the baby Jesus and the three Wise Men, but the role of Christmas consultants Kuffman, Goldstein & Blum is less understood. But first, it is important ... More >>
Guest Opinion: Trafficking Of Women And Children
Tuesday, 23 December 2003, 11:04 am | Guest Opinion
A girl child in the Philippines is discriminated upon early in life due to culture-based and family reinforced gender biases. More >>
Girls Can Do Anything Except Pay Off Their Loans
Thursday, 18 December 2003, 2:28 pm | Guest Opinion
The Human Rights Commission has decided to examine the New Zealand University Students Association’s claim that women with student loans are discriminated against because they take, on average, twice as long to clear their debt than men. This publicity ... More >>
Guantanamo Prison: Outside the Rule of Law
Tuesday, 16 December 2003, 10:25 am | Guest Opinion
The latest news from Guantanamo Bay is beginning to sound like a modern-day Simpsons’ episode. More >>
Guest Opinion: A Dome Of Silence On Nauru
Monday, 15 December 2003, 3:40 pm | Guest Opinion
There is silence. Long ago a ''Dome of Silence'' was lowered over the cage on Nauru Island. The residents of Topside Camp are quiet. Normal activities have stopped. The men on the hunger strike are lying quietly too. More >>
Deep Vein Thrombosis – Advice For Air Travellers
Monday, 8 December 2003, 1:08 pm | Guest Opinion
The problem of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) after airline travel rises to public consciousness from time to time as the popular press report stories about healthy young travellers succumbing to the condition, or provide details of high profile case going to court. More >>
Guest Opinion: Kyoto Dead… Don’t Hold Your Breath!
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 4:42 pm | Guest Opinion
In the past ten years, it has been almost impossible to count the number of times that the Kyoto Protocol has been declared ‘dead’. More >>
Guest Opinion: A Coward Goes to Baghdad
Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 11:59 am | Guest Opinion
Forget "The eagle has landed." On Thursday, the turkey landed - on many Americans dinner plates, and on the runway of the airport formerly known as Saddam Hussein International. More >>
Satire: New Big Boom in Iraq - Jobs
Monday, 1 December 2003, 10:41 am | Guest Opinion
Last week George Bush made a secret visit to Iraq to announce the launch of a new employment program to put the people of Iraq "Back to Work." More >>
US Congress Does Israel's Bidding In The Mid East
Friday, 28 November 2003, 12:18 am | Guest Opinion
On October 16 a Muslim leader, Mahathir Mohammed, delivered the keynote address before an all-Islamic Summit Conference in Malaysia. In his speech Mahathir called for Muslim unity. More >>
Why the Bush "War on Terror" is Fated to Fail
Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 11:04 am | Guest Opinion
Terrorism is an ideological problem, not a military problem. It is a mental illness caused by a lethal set of virulent group dynamics masquerading as religion. The time is long overdue for us to take our "politically correct," white gloves off so-called ... More >>
David Jenkins: Prisoners of War
Monday, 24 November 2003, 1:08 pm | Guest Opinion
George W. Bush is speaking in the "sterile zone" of Whitehall Palace as I write. He was also supposed to address the members of Parliament during his controversial visit but he chickened out of that one because, as we all know, the members are quite ... More >>
Guest Opinion: Just Look at this Mess!
Tuesday, 18 November 2003, 1:08 pm | Guest Opinion
I just came off of a little hiatus in order to complete a few projects and take some time off to sit back and watch or listen to what was happening out there. Man, what a crazy couple of weeks, huh? More >>
Guest Opinion: Voiding the Palestinians
Monday, 17 November 2003, 1:51 pm | Guest Opinion
On October 29, 2003, a leading Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, reported a rape-murder that occurred more than fifty years ago at Nirim, an Israeli military outpost in the Negev. The victim was a Palestinian girl, in her early or mid-teens, or younger; the perpetrators ... More >>
Guest Opinion: Export Led Development?
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 11:51 am | Guest Opinion
At the recent APEC summit in Thailand, George Bush, choose to call for support for his "war on terrorism" and Iraq reconstruction, rather than talk economics, possibly indicating a change of tactics in implementing US's corporate agenda. Bi-lateral ... More >>
