If anyone really believed that Phil Goff, a politician who has enthusiastically embraced neoliberalism throughout his parliamentary career, ...
SIDESHOW BOB AND 'THE HOUSE OF HORRORS' 3
Mayor Sideshow Bob normally never turns down a chance to get himself on television but he did today. Television One News wanted to asked him...
HOWARD ZINN IS DEAD
I was sad to learn that Howard Zinn passed away today, aged 87. Zinn is the author of for A People's History of the United States ...
THE JOKE IS ON US
Between 1982 and the mid-1990s real wages fell in New Zealand some 25 percent and have never recovered. Wages today remain a massive 25 per...
WHY SO SILENT?
Imagine if President George Bush, under cloak of providing 'humanitarian aid', sent some 20,000 military troops to Haiti in order to...
HOPELESS IN HAITI
TV3's Mike McRoberts spent a week in Haiti and, like the rest of the New Zealand mainstream media, has resolutely ignored the fact that...
DOLE FIGURES RISE AGAIN
The Government have been peddling 'the recession is over' message for some time now and it must be disappointing for John Key and c...
SOMEONE TELL MIKE MCROBERTS - THERE'S A MILITARY CLAMPDOWN HAPPENING IN HAITI
Although the New Zealand mainstream media continues to pretend otherwise, the American militarisation of Haiti is well under way. And it has...
WHY IS MIKE MCROBERTS IN HAITI?
TV3 like sending newsreader Mike McRoberts off to far-flung 'trouble spots' and this week the 'I've Been Everywhere Man...
MEDIA DISHONESTY OVER HAITI
The New Zealand media's coverage of the Haiti disaster has been uniformly terrible and has failed to tell the full story about Haiti...
NEOLIBERALISM'S ROLE IN HAITI'S PLIGHT
Peter Hallward looks at the not-so-natural factors that have contributed to the disaster in Haiti. Any large city in the world would have su...
REJOINING THE WASHINGTON CLUB
The New Zealand mainstream media has been almost celebratory that this country is hitching its wagon firmly to the foreign policy imperativ...
LET'S TALK ABOUT ME!
Cameron Slater of the Whale Oil blog says that he is breaking court suppression orders because there is a 'celebrity culture' at w...
GLENN INWOOD POSES AS GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL
Every time the mainstream media wants a opinion on behalf of the Japanese whaling industry they go to Glen Inwood - who, in 2000, was press...
PEOPLE POWER
In the end, no matter what the politicians and their allies believe, its people power that will win the world. Two high profile protest act...
THE ART OF PEN SPINNING
Watching the Television One News the other night I couldn't help but notice how much newsreader Miriama Kamo enjoys playing with her b...
SIDESHOW BOB AND 'THE HOUSE OF HORRORS' 2
You may recall Sideshow Bob grandstanding about the so-called 'House of Horrors' - the Christchurch house where the bodies of two m...
WASTING TIME WITH GOOGLE
Entirely in the spirit of holiday frivolity here's a few things you can do with Google if you feel like wasting some time. Enter one o...
MORE RUBBISH FROM ENGLISH
The Minister of Finance is presently on his summer holidays but his office have released his thoughts on the state on the New Zealand econom...
BLOOD MONEY
We're often reminded by our politicians of how important China supposedly is to New Zealand's economic health. It doesn't matte...