Kiwiblog continues its descent into the alt-right sewer: https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/11/guest_post_pasifika_is_bollocks.html
There's a concerted effort to brand the new govt and its leader communist. Those doing so are eliding two different political traditions and making rational political debate harrder: http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2017/10/is-jacinda-commie.html
Some National Party supporter are very angry at the country's new government. Calls for the assassination of Winston Peters have been appearing on social media and at a popular pro-Nats blog: http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2017/10/fomenting-happy-...
and today on the kiwiblog general debate thread you have people calling for the assassination of winston peters, on the grounds that he is a 'terrorist', and getting upticked. bit of a worry...
Don Brash insists that his Hobson's Pledge organisation exists to promote racial equality. Why, then, has the group's facebook page been promoting apartheid and neo-Nazis? http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2017/07/brashs-ugly-facebook.html
Repressed history: New Zealand's role in the Pacific slave trade and slavery's curious relationship with the first international rugby match played here: http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2017/02/snatching-and-killing.html
Is Trump too lonely to be a fascist? http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2017/02/the-loneliness-of-trump.html
Credit to Otago Daily Times journalist Bruce Munro, who has exposed some of Otago's links to the slave trade: https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/chained-sorry-trade http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/sometimes-silence-screams-bruce-munro....
Some conservative Kiwis are very unhappy that the ugly side of their country's Pacific history is being exposed: http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2016/12/counting-victims.html
Exposing New Zealand's hidden slaving history: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201825485/new-zealand-and-the-pacific-slave-trade
Maikolo Horowitz is a veteran of the 1960s American left who has spent much of the last twenty years teaching and researching in the Kingdom of Tonga. Tomorrow at Auckland's AUT University, where he is beginning a summer residency, Horowitz will discuss ...
If Trump is true to his campaign rhetoric, then he will tear up the foreign policy playbook and abandon treaties like Anzus. NZ's political and security establishments could face a crisis. Time for the left to formulate a new foreign policy and a new ...
Our second longest serving PM was a fanatical member of a white supremacist, pyramids-obsessed cult. So why's avid Farrar so keen to defend him? http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2016/10/william-massey-and.html
If Brash is such a devout anti-racist, why is a columnist for a paper that promotes neo-Nazis and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, besides anti-Maori nonsense? http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2016/07/david-ickes-kiwi-fans-and-their.html
Public debate about the future of Kermadecs has been hampered by a lack of knowledge of the islands' long & tragic past. Maori got to the Kermadecs many centuries ago, & in 1863 tragedy arrived, in the form of a Spanish ship filled with slaves from half a ...
The debate about the Kermadecs has also shown up an ignorance about Polynesian history. Critics of the Maori Party's position have often claimed confidently that Maori didn't travel to the Kermadecs in the period before contact with Europeans. But ...
It's slavery remembrance day, but very few New Zealanders are aware of their country's deep involvement with the Pacific slave trade in the 19th century. In 1863 New Zealanders and Tasmanians raided two Tongan islands and sold their people to Peruvian ...
Today, nearly one hundred and fifty-three years after the bloodiest post-Treaty battle on the soil of these islands, the invaders are withdrawing, and Rangiriri pa is being returned to Maori: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/311348/rangiriri-pa...
How would a Trump presidency affect NZ foreign policy? http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/trump-pacific-and-unintended.html
NZ's closest neighbour may be entering another period of revolutionary crisis: http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/a-quick-note-on-tongas-new-crisis.html
Donald Trump's presidential campaign has made white nationalism fashionable. But the notion of white identity is based not only on bigotry but on pseudo-history: http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2016/07/kendrick-smithymans-rebuke-to-trump.html
Why is a former leader of the National Party writing columns for a magazine that celebrates neo-Nazism and advances anti-semitic conspiracy theories? http://readingthemaps.blogspot.com/2016/07/david-ickes-kiwi-fans-and-their.html
There are some lessons for the NZ Labour Party and the NZ left in the Iraq disaster. It's easy to forget now, but an influential coterie of centre-left journalists, intellectuals, and political activists supported the invasion of Iraq, providing Blair and ...
Did a communist theorist predict Auckland's housing crisis 70 years ago? http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2016/06/bill-mcara-on-aucklands-housing-crisis_23.html
Historical materialism is a way of understanding how societies grow and change, and has been very influential amongst social scientists for a century and a half. Although the theory was invented by Karl Marx, it is nowadays used in modified forms by many ...
A report on the ongoing battle between progressive reform and theocratic reaction in the Kingdom of Tonga: http://eyecontactsite.com/2016/06/art-in-a-weimar-kingdom
... imagine the last Neanderthal died RTM?' I'm not sure what...
'“conspiracy theorists” and “ancient civilisations” are terms not conducive to considered thought and debate' In my experience the proponents of claims that non-Polynesians settled NZ thousands of years ago are all motivated at least in part by a far right...
'Assuming we have full and complete knowledge today in 2016 is, well, just silly' Nobody assumes that. What's silly is to assert that because everything about the past isn't known nothing can be said about the past. We know, thanks to the work of dozens of...
'A sustained public education programme teaching what?' Moriori history. Follow the link. Michael King's Moriori: a people rediscovered is a good lengthier introduction. 'There is a huge amount yet to be discovered, let alone be certain enough to begin an ...
As Crown Treaty negotiations with Moriori hit the mainstream media all sorts of old myths and prejudices are oozing out of the Kiwi public. Any Crown settlement with Moriori needs to include not only massive land transfers but a sustained public education ...
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