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Trade For All? Peace Groups Question The NZ Trade Strategy Of Investment In A Homegrown Weapons Industry
Monday, 15 March 2021, 12:12 pm | Valerie Morse
From 2015 until 2018, peace groups spent a considerable amount of time working to shut down New Zealand’s annual weapons expo, an event sponsored by Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest arms dealer. In 2018, in spite of a reported $250,000 security ... More >>
Healthcare Not Warfare
Thursday, 2 April 2020, 11:32 am | Valerie Morse
The discussion about Covid-19 health care has focused on the ability of our health care system to cope with large influx of people requiring serious care and ventilators. Sitting at home is the best way to ‘flatten the curve’ we have learned, and not ... More >>
Nigel Farage’s politics not welcome
Sunday, 26 August 2018, 7:02 pm | Valerie Morse
“When UK far right politician and Trump’s best mate Nigel Farage comes to New Zealand next month, there will be resistance to his views from communities across Auckland. Tāmaki Anti-Fascist Action is organising a peaceful anti-racism public ... More >>
Dear Jacinda: We Haven’t Got Any More Time
Wednesday, 21 March 2018, 10:22 am | Valerie Morse
On Monday, the Prime Minister accepted a petition calling for the end to oil and gas exploration signed by 45,000 people. In response to this, the Prime Minister asked for “a bit more time” to make a decision about the future of oil and gas. ... More >>
What should NZ do about Syria? - Valerie Morse
Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 10:40 am | Valerie Morse
On 7 April, the US launched 59 cruise missiles into Syrian territory to bomb Shayrat airforce base in response to a chemical weapons attack by Bashar al-Assad on the Syria village of Khan Shaykun. The public and international response to this has ... More >>
US warship visit: a trade display to boost US weapons sales
Tuesday, 31 May 2016, 10:54 am | Valerie Morse
Once weapons were manufactured to fight wars. Now wars are manufactured to sell weapons. ~Arundhati Roy More >>
Terrorism? No, Ganja
Friday, 11 March 2016, 4:21 pm | Valerie Morse
Two Light Armoured Vehicles (LAVs) were at the scene of a police stand-off near the community of Kawerau this morning. The incident apparently began when a marijuana-spotting helicopter was fired upon from the ground. Police subsequently raided a rural house, ... More >>
Valerie Morse: Spy report a dream come true for Five Eyes
Wednesday, 9 March 2016, 3:13 pm | Valerie Morse
The release of the Independent review of intelligence and security recommends a range of changes that are dangerous to ordinary people, both within NZ and elsewhere, and represents a massive concentration of state power. More >>
2016: Climate, China and Conflict
Wednesday, 6 January 2016, 2:08 pm | Valerie Morse
The New Year is a time for reflection and an opportunity to predict what lies ahead. The interesting thing about predicting the future is that it isn’t really as much guesswork as one might think. Of course, things—the contingent—will arise that ... More >>
Oversight? Yeah, right! Today’s Intelligence & Security Cmte
Wednesday, 11 March 2015, 4:18 pm | Valerie Morse
The public portion of today’s annual review of the GCSB and NZSIS was a stage managed public relations exercise in which it appears that the new (acting) Director of the GCSB lied to the Select Committee. Certainly we won’t get any straight answers ... More >>
Intelligence and Security Committee review of NZSIS and GCSB
Wednesday, 11 March 2015, 4:07 pm | Valerie Morse
The public portion of today’s annual review of the GCSB and NZSIS was a stage managed public relations exercise in which it appears that the new (acting) Director of the GCSB lied to the Select Committee. Certainly we won’t get any straight answers ... More >>
Refuting diplo-nonsense
Wednesday, 4 March 2015, 10:03 am | Valerie Morse
Refuting diplo-nonsense: a rebuttal to Professor Robert Ayson’s essay on the deployment of NZ troops to Iraq. More >>
100 years of invading Iraq
Monday, 23 February 2015, 12:08 pm | Valerie Morse
The prime minister has labeled a new deployment of New Zealand soldiers to Iraq an ‘Anzac-badged unit,’ and he has explicitly sought to draped it in the honour and courage associated with troops at Gallipoli 100 years ago. Since the prime minister ... More >>
The Security State: We should not be surprised but worried
Friday, 28 November 2014, 5:30 pm | Valerie Morse
On the very day that the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security released her report into the actions of people the Prime Minister’s office in leaking classified Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) documents to right-wing smearmonger Cameron ... More >>
Key and NZ Police at G20: What a contribution
Thursday, 20 November 2014, 5:50 pm | Valerie Morse
While 200 New Zealand police officers are helping to repress protests outside of the G20 in Brisbane this week, John Key has been inside pushing the interests of giant multinational corporations to fast track the World Trade Organization (WTO) ... More >>
Does New Zealand have its own secret court?
Tuesday, 4 November 2014, 1:41 pm | Valerie Morse
Thanks to Edward Snowden, there has been an enormous amount of news about the US intelligence community and the court – the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Court (FISA) – that governs it. Following the stunning revelations that FISA approved ... More >>
Privacy Commissioner colludes with GCSB in cover up
Monday, 30 September 2013, 9:33 am | Valerie Morse
“The Privacy Commissioner has upheld the GCSB’s ‘neither confirm nor deny’ response to people seeking to find out if they are among the 88 who were subject to illegal surveillance by the GCSB. This illegal activity has now been sanctioned ... More >>
Why all New Zealanders should support Maori claims to water
Wednesday, 26 September 2012, 5:21 pm | Valerie Morse
Imagine you are a homeowner with a few spare rooms in your house. One day you come home from work, and a couple of people have moved into these rooms without your knowledge or consent. After trying to assert your rights to the house, you call the police. More >>
Neither austerity nor growth
Monday, 21 May 2012, 11:35 am | Valerie Morse
Since the French election last week, the news media has pitted the approach of the Germans – ‘austerity’ – to that of the new French president – ‘growth’ as the only two possible answers to the Greek debt ‘crisis’ and more widely the ... More >>
Anti-capitalism must feature at hikoi against asset sales
Monday, 23 April 2012, 12:35 pm | Valerie Morse
Starting this week, a nation-wide hikoi is leaving the far north and traveling to Wellington carrying a raft of messages to the government. These include opposition to state asset sales, opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) ... More >>
