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Missing voices

Written By: weka - Date published: 11:24 am, April 20th, 2017 - 39 comments

Former Trump supporter speaks Her Truth

Duck and Cover

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:00 am, April 16th, 2017 - 89 comments

Donald Trump is engaged in some over the top brinkmanship with North Korea which is increasing the prospects of at least a limited exchange of nuclear weapons.

My five books for Donald Trump

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:20 am, April 16th, 2017 - 9 comments

What books should POTUS read during this most religious of times.

National’s response to the Syria attack

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:06 am, April 8th, 2017 - 56 comments

Unlike the Australian and United Kingdom Governments’ response to the American attack has been muted and confused. Is this just the nature of anything that Bill English says or is it an attempt to assess public opinion before responding?

Trumping Idiocy

Written By: Bill - Date published: 4:59 pm, March 29th, 2017 - 28 comments

If you are absolutely determined to be one of the idiot legion who’re forever squirreling their heads deeper into sand, then don’t read this post.

Right-wing American stupidity is now a global crisis

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:04 am, March 29th, 2017 - 47 comments

The Trump regime has begun the process of dismantling environmental protections in America, including those designed to limit carbon emissions / climate change.

China is in New Zealand to stay

Written By: advantage - Date published: 1:06 pm, March 28th, 2017 - 39 comments

At a time when the United States is reducing its diplomatic capacity and its willingness to enter into International Treaties New Zealand’s willingness to deal with China places it in an almost unique position in the western world.

Trumpcare down in flames

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:52 am, March 25th, 2017 - 39 comments

Good news (for those following the tragedy that is American politics).

#Trumpcare

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:44 am, March 16th, 2017 - 22 comments

The proposed Republican replacement of Obamacare will, surprise surprise, result in lower benefits, reduced coverage and a tax cut for the wealthy.

Free market efficiency in health – not

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:05 am, March 15th, 2017 - 37 comments

The idea of free market efficiency is not nearly as powerful or universal as its (often fanatical) proponents would have us believe. The sorry state of the USA’s health system is yet another compelling example of its limitations.

Five ways Donald Trump is wrong about Islam

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:37 am, March 7th, 2017 - 20 comments

Donald Trump’s recently announced replacement policy in immigration is wrong. And this is why.

Slightly smug about MMP

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:00 am, March 4th, 2017 - 22 comments

2017 will be New Zealand’s eighth election under MMP, over 22 years. With very strong democratically elected governments appearing right across the world digging in for the long term, it’s useful to take a moment for MMP.

Trump’s confidence: The kiss of death?

Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:53 am, March 3rd, 2017 - 39 comments

Watching Steve Brannon and his alter ego Donald Trump operate from a long way away is almost amusing. Total confidence == Jeff Sessions needs to recuse himself from the enquiry into unlawful contacts with the Russians..

Jon Stewart skewering Tr*mp and the MSM

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:30 am, March 2nd, 2017 - 1 comment

Making the most of getting dumped by DT

Tr*mp and Bannon on the end of the state

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:18 am, March 1st, 2017 - 32 comments

not with a whimper but a bang.

Where to now for the left?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:43 am, February 26th, 2017 - 115 comments

With the right in ascendancy throughout the Western World what does the left do to change this?

Trump Whitehouse bans critical media from briefing

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:19 pm, February 25th, 2017 - 54 comments

It is day 37 of Donald Trump’s reign as POTUS. Today he decided to attack elements of the press that have been critical of him by banning them from a press conference.

Australia’s war

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:52 pm, February 25th, 2017 - 5 comments

Surprising no one: “A newly declassified report obtained by Fairfax Media reveals Australia’s role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was undertaken solely to enhance our alliance with the US.”

1984

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:39 am, February 23rd, 2017 - 120 comments

That Orwell was ahead of his time.

The Trump bump

Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:30 am, February 19th, 2017 - 27 comments

This week’s Economist looks at the resurgence in the business of the more effective mainstream media in the US. But the effect reaches all the way over here. Even I’m reading more on a the ongoing debacle that is the incompetent Trump White House. Good reporting and perfect reading for the summer season and I suspect that it is impacting all of the blogs at present.

The new world order

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:00 pm, February 18th, 2017 - 60 comments

With former adversaries USA and Russia now the best of friends and with China now emerging again as the preeminent economy in the world the question is will the transition of power be handled smoothly?

Watching the journalists

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:00 am, February 16th, 2017 - 86 comments

“The obligation of a journalist is to serve the public”

John Oliver returns – calls Trump ‘a pathological liar’

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:32 pm, February 15th, 2017 - 11 comments

Our long Oliver-less nightmare is over.

Hypocrisy watch – Michael Flynn

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:35 am, February 15th, 2017 - 35 comments

Over in the United States of Trumpsville National Security Advisor to the Trump White House Mike Flynn, who famously said that Hillary Clinton should be locked up for threatening national security by having a private email server, has been sacked for threatening national security and for lying to the vice president.

New Zealand Second?

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:48 am, February 11th, 2017 - 13 comments

Trump handed his own arse by appeals court

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:34 pm, February 10th, 2017 - 42 comments

The stay on Trump’s Muslim Ban is upheld. He took it about as well as you would expect.

Key gives up on us, keeps International Democratic Union.

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 9:00 am, February 10th, 2017 - 33 comments

The Herald informs us that Key is going on the speaking circuit and will go back into finance (not that he ever left). Like John Howard before him, he also intends to carry on chairing the International Democratic Union of right-wing parties. Not a surprise.