Gordon Campbell Key’s abuse of secrecy over Iraq & The TPP
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s abuse of secrecy over Iraq, and the TPP For the past week or so we’ve been hearing a lot about […]
April 2015
Gordon Campbell on Indonesia’s latest round of executions
Gordon Campbell on Indonesia’s latest round of executions To no-one’s real surprise, Indonesia has carried out its second wave of executions this year. Given the […]
Gordon Campbell on the hair-pulling finale and Gallipoli
Don’t know about you, but when hi-jinks and horsing around are going on, my understanding is that everyone involved is supposed to be having a […]
Gordon Campbell on the PM's Hair-Pulling Power Trip
There have been striking differences between (a) the account of the waitress involved in the hair-pulling incidents, and (b) the account being given by Prime […]
Gordon Campbell on the key battle Obama is waging over the TPP
For the past two and a half years, this column has been arguing that the fate of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal will hinge […]
What’s To Commemorate?
The Making of Gallipoli into a Marketable Memory
The Politics of Vaccination
Is the Key government pandering to people who oppose vaccination on principle?
Artificial Intelligence: Real Anxieties?
Is the film Ex Machina – and its depiction of Artificial Intelligence – a sign of a world soon to come?
Migrant smugglers: monsters or saviours?
We can’t help the plight of refugees by concentrating solely only on the people-smugglers
Nausea And Virtual Reality
For better or worse, the world of virtual reality is virtually upon us
War At Ground Level
Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory is still the greatest World War I film.
From The Hood : Trench Lawfare
Shouldn’t forging a nation from blood and sacrifice be against the law?
Free Films, On Youtube
Make your own film festival, from movies available free online.
Water In The Bank
In the Midst of California’s Drought
The Complicatist : Sufjan Stevens
The Carrie and Lowell album is about trying to survive your family’s impact on you
***** Werewolf Issue 53, March 2015 *****
The March 2015 issue of Werewolf.
Gordon Campbell on the Reserve Bank’s call to arms about the Auckland housing crisis
The ‘crisis – what crisis?’ response by the government to the Auckland housing price bubble is no longer acceptable. So says Reserve Bank governor Grant […]
Gordon Campbell on UE pass rates and university dropout rates
Houston, there is clearly a problem with (a) the plunge in pass rates for University Entrance qualifications, which has been especially steep among Maori students […]
Gordon Campbell on the demise of Campbell Live
The imminent axeing of Campbell Live has been the inevitable outcome of a mindset which considers only (a) declining ratings which impact on (b) advertising […]
Gordon Campbell on a union victory in the fast food industry
Good to have a reminder of why trade unions are still essential in the 21st century. The scrapping of zero hour contract provisions by the […]
Gordon Campbell on dollar parity with Australia, and disarming Israel
As the New Zealand dollar edges towards parity with the Aussie dollar, it seems facile to treat this as some game of Transtasman arm-wrestling that […]
Gordon Campbell on the inadequate response to sexual violence prevention
On combatting sexual violence, the government has finally begun to undo some of the problems that were of its own making. Early in March, ACC […]