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Kansas ANZUS.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 9:14 am, February 5th, 2017 - 45 comments

What to do when your erstwhile ally loses the plot?

Aussie Aussie Aussie, Ouch Ouch Ouch!

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:11 am, February 3rd, 2017 - 70 comments

Diplomacy in the age of Trump is going to be a real blast. Just ask Australia.

The constitution is screwed

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 4:10 pm, January 31st, 2017 - 117 comments

Trump goes full fascist and fires the acting Attorney General for daring to question his Muslim Ban order.

Shock after shock

Written By: weka - Date published: 9:15 am, January 31st, 2017 - 63 comments

Understanding shock events is part of the solution.

Then hope

Written By: weka - Date published: 9:14 am, January 31st, 2017 - 8 comments

Hope and action are also part of the solution.

Justin Lester: No matter where you come from, you are welcome here

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:49 pm, January 30th, 2017 - 3 comments

The PM may not know where he stands but the Mayor of Wellington does.

Will English speak up on Trump’s ban?

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 6:50 am, January 30th, 2017 - 133 comments

World leaders are condemning Trump’s Muslim ban. What does the PM of our country have to say on the matter?

Trump’s Muslim travel ban

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:38 am, January 29th, 2017 - 150 comments

Welcome to the new America.

Maybe Trump is what the left needed

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:30 am, January 28th, 2017 - 72 comments

Donald Trump’s ascendancy to power presents the left with the chance of showing that progressive politics is a much better choice than the alternative.

Punching Nazis, and practicing resistance

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:40 pm, January 27th, 2017 - 186 comments

Being human, Linda Tirado, and lessons for New Zealand.

Special Relationship 2

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:41 am, January 27th, 2017 - 58 comments

The Bush Blair “special relationship” was a geopolitical disaster of epic proportions. Get ready for Round 2, Trump May.

Postcards from the Trumpocalypse

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:25 am, January 26th, 2017 - 66 comments

This is what an unfettered right-wing government looks like.

Godzone for billionaires

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:59 am, January 26th, 2017 - 93 comments

Peter Thiel’s fast tracking of his citizenship application needs some explaining by the Government.

Trump’s global gag law on abortion

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:37 pm, January 24th, 2017 - 52 comments

“Donald Trump signs anti-abortion executive order surrounded by men”

The inauguration of Trump: Jonathan Pie reacts

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:00 am, January 24th, 2017 - 15 comments

Jonathan Pie gets angry at Trump’s treatment of the media.

RIP TPP

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:39 am, January 24th, 2017 - 70 comments

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and leaving the agreement effectively dead in its tracks.

Everything Contained. Everyone Led.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 12:30 pm, January 23rd, 2017 - 12 comments

So what’s important? Millions on the streets and what might become of that, or how many more or fewer people attended a given President’s big day? Just asking…

Starting out with an obvious lie

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:02 am, January 23rd, 2017 - 195 comments

The Trump / Spicer claim that the inauguration crowds were “the largest audience ever to witness and inauguration, period” are such an obvious lie that it seems unhinged. But there could be method to the madness.

(Update: Apparently in Trump speak these are “alternative facts”.)

Protest Marches

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:10 am, January 22nd, 2017 - 60 comments

The Sister Marches have been a huge success worldwide.

T Day

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 6:16 am, January 21st, 2017 - 124 comments

Donald Trump has now been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. And we are in unchartered territory.

It Begins

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:02 am, January 20th, 2017 - 63 comments

The CIA files on NZ

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:23 am, January 19th, 2017 - 26 comments

The release online of a trove of declassified CIA documents includes several pertaining to NZ. The Herald’s David Fisher has given us a fine summary.

Obama orders early release of Chelsea Manning

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:41 am, January 18th, 2017 - 81 comments

In breaking news: Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence.

Women to protest Trump’s inauguration

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:07 am, January 17th, 2017 - 39 comments

Various events are planned in protest around Trump’s inauguration. One of them is a series of marches organised by and for women. There are (at time of writing) 386 marches organised world wide, including in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.

The Trump Dossier

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:30 am, January 12th, 2017 - 176 comments

Buzzfeed’s release of the Dossier suggesting that Russia has considerable leverage over Donald Trump has caused ructions the effects of which will be felt for months.

Obama’s last speech

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:19 pm, January 11th, 2017 - 94 comments

Tired of jokes about Trump and golden showers? Want to read a real political speech? Well here is the text to Barak Obama’s last political speech as POTUS.

The great Taxpayers Union fraud and corruption discovery

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:39 am, January 11th, 2017 - 114 comments

The Taxpayer’s Union has shown a concerning inability to comprehend in its criticism of MFAT for supporting an aid initiative to address malnutrition in Africa.

The CIA Director confirmation hearings

Written By: advantage - Date published: 11:03 am, January 10th, 2017 - 17 comments

Mike Pompey is Donald Trump’s chosen head for the CIA. He is someone who believes in the mass collection of all metadata and combining it with all publicly available information. Are we going to see the unprecedented destruction of rights of privacy?

Spy vs Spy

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 10:47 pm, January 9th, 2017 - 127 comments

It is MAD. In the frenzy leading up to Trump’s inauguration, we have the extraordinary spectacle of the CIA interfering in the US election by accusing the Russians of interfering in the same election. The CIA used only to interfere in other people’s elections. On the serious side this intervention means the war party hasn’t given up yet, no matter what Trump may say.