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P Buchanan: Scaremongering In The Political Gutter
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 4:57 pm | Paul G. Buchanan
Unsubstantiated allegations by Winston Peters that there is an extremist hydra residing within the New Zealand Muslim community, coupled with equally vague claims by a foreign security expert that there are at least ten Islamic militant groups operating here, ... More >>
Paul Buchanan: On Special Ops Military Investment
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 12:18 am | Paul G. Buchanan
On Military Investment In Special Operations And Helicopter Trapping Paul G. Buchanan 6-7-05 More >>
Paul G. Buchanan: Cracks In The Façade
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 12:59 am | Paul G. Buchanan
The barbeques are sizzling, flags are fluttering everywhere, patriotic parades and speeches are the course of the day. Although large biting fish have deterred swimmers on the East Coast, people have flocked to parks, beaches and lakes to celebrate the ... More >>
Lapses in Security Have Election Implications
Friday, 13 May 2005, 9:55 am | Paul G. Buchanan
There is a slow cloud building on the horizon of Labour’s re-election. It has loomed larger for the last three years, although it has it origins in previous National governments. That cloud is called insecurity. More >>
Paul Buchanan: On the Issue of NZ's Defence
Friday, 29 April 2005, 3:28 pm | Paul G. Buchanan
Beyond the unseemly spectacle of politicians using the commemorations of duty and sacrifice on ANZAC Day to score cheap partisan points on the issue of New Zealand’s defence, the question begs as to what, exactly, they are on about. More >>
Buchanan: The Symmetry Between Torture & Terror
Thursday, 21 April 2005, 10:56 am | Paul G. Buchanan
Revelations about torture of political prisoners held in US prisons in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Iraq and the lower fifty have sparked debate about what is permissible in grey area, irregular conflicts such as the fight against Islamicist ... More >>
Of Security Risk Certificates and Human Rights
Friday, 1 April 2005, 8:50 am | Paul G. Buchanan
Paul Buchanan writes that the NZ Supreme Court will soon hear arguments as to whether the Inspector General of the SIS must take into account Ahmed Zaoui’s human rights when considering the validity of the security risk certificate issued against him. More >>
Dubya’s Good Fortune
Friday, 4 March 2005, 3:29 pm | Paul G. Buchanan
The Italian political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli (he of the misused term “Machiavellian”), argued that success in leadership depended on the specific combination of two factors: virtu and fortuna. More >>
Nationalism & Pragmatism In Iraq’s Election
Thursday, 3 February 2005, 11:26 am | Paul G. Buchanan
The surprisingly large voter turn-out in the January 31 Iraq elections, held in spite of a pervasive climate of fear punctuated by guerrilla attacks and mass murder on the part of die hard Baathist and Islamicist guerrillas, has occasioned a global ... More >>
Of Commandos, Death Squads and Hit Men
Friday, 21 January 2005, 10:20 am | Paul G. Buchanan
Recent news reports claim that the US Special Operations community has not been entirely idle since the invasion of Iraq gave way to its occupation. Special Forces units were at the pointy edge of the military spear that gutted Saddam’s army, but ... More >>
Tsunami: Paul Buchanan Responds To Reader's Claim
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 10:23 am | Paul G. Buchanan
Sorry to see an unhappy reader out there. Less anyone else think that there was intentional bias in the essay, let me clarify the storyline. I wrote the piece over the weekend, during which time the mentioned charity events occured in Saudi and UAE. My understanding ... More >>
Tsunami Political Victims: How It Swamped al Qaeda
Monday, 10 January 2005, 12:23 am | Paul G. Buchanan
Unnoticed amid the grief and human misery that followed the tidal waves across the Indian Ocean are the political victims of the relentless surge. As the world organizes an unprecedented relief effort to address the tragedy, what is most striking is the ... More >>
On The Contemporary Nature Of Just Wars
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 2:51 pm | Paul G. Buchanan
Revelations that the SAS detachment to Afghanistan received a US presidential unit citation for its actions as part of the multinational task force supporting nation-building and counter-terror operations in that country have occasioned varying responses from ... More >>
Playing Spy Scrabble
Tuesday, 14 December 2004, 10:55 am | Paul G. Buchanan
When it comes to spying, acronyms tend to run short: CIA, DIA, DINA, ECHELON, KGB, MI6, NSA, ASIO, KCIA and, to stretch the sample, Mossad. With regard to New Zealand’s intelligence services, the subject is gathered in short fours: SIS, EAB, GCSB and ... More >>
A Conversation With Paul Buchanan On The NZ SIS
Friday, 26 November 2004, 10:51 am | Paul G. Buchanan
Let me begin by stating that as someone who trained US intelligence officers and who worked closely with the US intelligence community for over a decade before emmigrating to NZ, I believe in the legitimacy and utility of intelligence-gathering, including ... More >>
The Nonscientific Reality Behind US Election Polls
Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 9:27 am | Paul G. Buchanan
The worst mistake a political analyst can make is to offer predictions about future events. The study of politics is nowhere close to being an exact science, and in fact makes meteorology look downright precise. More >>
Paul Buchanan: The Election Gambit In Iraq
Friday, 15 October 2004, 10:41 am | Paul G. Buchanan
Once again the US has a self-made problem in Iraq. It has staked the ethereal timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops on holding “free and fair” elections in January 2005. More >>
Paul Buchanan: The Return To Dictatorship
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 12:04 am | Paul G. Buchanan
Around a decade ago two proclamations were made by prominent US scholars: the demise of the Soviet bloc had brought about ''the end of history'' in which a ''third wave'' of democratization would result in the extension of liberal democracy, or at least ... More >>
Paul Buchanan: The Neo-Colonial Fallacy
Friday, 17 September 2004, 10:25 pm | Paul G. Buchanan
With the US presidential election campaign now entering the home stretch, the Bush administration has placed its bets on the issue of strong leadership and staying the course in Iraq and the War on Terror. More >>
