Gordon Campbell On Turkey And Russia
So why did Turkey shoot down that Russian plane? According to the Russian president Dmitri Medvedev, it was all about Turkey (a) being hand in […]
November 2015
No Climate For Change
The Paris conference will deliver only paper promises on global warming
America, The Gated
Immigration has become a polarising issue in the 2016 US election campaign
Defending the Homeland
Women warriors, and how the US entertainment industry handles Middle East politics
In A New York Groove
NYC rekindles its love affair with its outlaw past
Syria Eats Itself
Countering the logic of the war economy in Syria
Do You Believe In Second Chances?
The Sundance TV series Rectify takes the difficulties of faith, forgiveness and family seriously
From The Hood : Illegal in an Illegal Land
Reading the fine print, except it’s not actually fine at all.
The Complicatist : Hip Hop’s Vanishing Sense of Community
A collective music based on allegiance to the ‘hood now belongs to remote and isolated solo stars
The Complicatist : Frankie Cosmos, and other sounds of whiteness
Some musical journeys in the worlds of white people….
***** Werewolf 57, September 2015 *****
The September 2015 edition of Werewolf
Gordon Campbell on the Phil Goff mayoral candidacy
What is about the centre right in Auckland? There they are, in the citadel of commerce, and yet they’re routinely unable to put up a […]
Gordon Campbell on why Islamic State’s growing weakness makes it more dangerous
One of the great things about writing online is that if you have a bad morning, readers will pick up on it, and take you […]
Gordon Campbell on Islam and the Paris attacks
According to polls, a third of Republican voters in Iowa want Islam to be criminalized. Unfortunately, the cornfields of middle America aren’t the only place […]
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s do’s and don’ts list when it comes to detainees
Since Prime Minister John Key plainly has trouble with the leadership thing, maybe we should keep it simple for him. So, here’s a list of […]
Gordon Campbell on the John Key smear attack, Russia’s sports doping and Allen Toussaint
The rationale behind Prime Minister John Key’s smear attack against Labour yesterday (and the subsequent walkout from Parliament) was obvious enough. When you’re in a […]
Gordon Campbell on being accountable, and holding the powerful to account
Don’t know how you feel about it, but the selective unavailability of Ministers and senior public servants to media scrutiny seems to be a growing […]
Gordon Campbell on Malcolm Turnbull, and rugby mania
When Malcolm Turnbull took over as PM across the Tasman, much was made of him citing the populist touch of Prime Minister John Key – […]