Gordon Campbell on Rubio’s last stand, and tonight’s Sleater-Kinney show
Well, it certainly was entertaining to watch Rubio succeed in getting under Donald Trump’s skin the other day, in the last debate before tomorrow’s Super […]
February 2016
Gordon Campbell on our underfunded Syrian refugee intake, and dairy industry carnage
Once again, our little show pony Prime Minister is prancing around the world offering to take in refugees – from Syria, from Nauru – while […]
Gordon Campbell on why we’re sitting ducks for the power companies
The marketing campaigns waged to induce customers to chase around between electricity companies in a frantic search for savings has always looked like a diversion. […]
Gordon Campbell on the support for the Clintons among black voters
Nevada has been conducting its politics via caucuses only since 2004, and the state’s tepid interest in this method of democratic expression still shows. Historically, […]
Gordon Campbell on the Defence Force’s spending bonanza
It has been a fairly typical week for this government… mental health services in Christchurch slashed, further massive cuts to DHB funding, and the abdication […]
Obsolete, At Birth
Already, the European Commission wants to scrap the TPP’s investor-state dispute mechanisms
Killing For A Living
The human cost of the ‘killing animals for food’ industry
The Great Financial Crisis Still To Come
An interview with Financial Times columnist John Kay
He’s Not Here
David Bowie never endorsed Velvet Goldmine but it has become the ideal tribute film.
Corresponding To Life
Writing – and getting – letters is still something to treasure
From the Hood : The Afterlife of Pablo
Kanye do something with this album cover meme? Ye kan!
Tom Petty : Keeping Hard Promises
A terrific new biography of Tom Petty rekindles the love for one of music’s most under-rated stars.
The Cult of Cuteness
How the Japanese concept of kawaii exalts female vulnerability
David Bowie Meets Laurence Aberhart
Revisiting a 1978 photo shoot encounter with The Thin White Duke….
The Complicatist : Japanese Music
Japanese hip-hop, noise music, J-Pop, and a whole lot more besides….
***** Werewolf Issue 58, November 2015 *****
The November 2015 Issue of Werewolf
Gordon Campbell on the middle class anger behind the rise of Donald Trump
One of the best examples of the Alice Through The Looking Glass nature of US politics occurred on the weekend, when Donald Trump – in […]
Gordon Campbell on the bogus Syrian peace deal, and Judge Antonin Scalia
The good thing about the Syrian peace deal announced on Friday is that it might create a small space for humanitarian relief, but… the ceasefire […]
Gordon Campbell on the Bernie Sanders aftermath
Even as Bernie Sanders was celebrating his win yesterday in New Hampshire, the road ahead for the Sanderistas seemed as dark as ever. The notion […]
Gordon Campbell on the US pressure to expand our role in Iraq
Tomorrow, Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee and Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Tim Keating will be in Brussels for a ministerial meeting of the so-called […]
Gordon Campbell on the Treaty/TPP overlap, and the Iowa backwash
Click for big version. The people who point out that we already have investor-state dispute settlement provisions in other trade deals and ‘so far so […]
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s free education plan, Iowa and Jefferson Airplane
The “free” education policy that Labour has just unveiled has some obvious shortcomings. The universities are right to stress that the cuts to their net […]