Gordon Campbell on Kobemania, Palestine, and the infrastructure package
Quick quiz to end the week. What deserves the more attention – the death of a US basketball legend, or the end of Palestinian hopes […]
Israel
Gordon Campbell on why raising benefits is a better option than spending on infrastructure
If New Zealand has a pressing need to stimulate its flagging economy, it seems very weird to meet this need with a $12 billion package of infrastructure spending…
Gordon Campbell on why we should support the junior doctors strike
The powers that individual DHBs are seeking look like a throwback to the early 1990s. Then, as now, the rationale was that this local “flexibility” was necessary.
Gordon Campbell on the ongoing carnage in Gaza
The past month has devoted a lot of space to the best music and films of 2018, and far less to the past year’s human rights violations.
Gordon Campbell on the Gaza killings
The demonstrations had come in the wider context of laws designed to restrict the movement and employment of those penned up in the equivalent of an open air prison…
Gordon Campbell on hostility against journalists, and Israel’s lies about Iran
Tomorrow (May 3) is the UN’s World Press Freedom Day. At last count, 32 working journalists had been killed this year up until April 30, […]
Gordon Campbell on why France could become our closest ally in Europe
As PM Jacinda Ardern returns from a triumphant tour to Britain and the capitals of Europe, her officials have probably begun to assess what the […]
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s anti-immigration gambit, and Israel
Evidently, Labour wants to branded itself with swing voters as an anti-immigration party making concerned noises about the festering irritations of living and working in Auckland.
Gordon Campbell on the UN resolution on Palestine
The UN resolution has been one of the most high profile achievements of our diplomacy on the world stage for many years.
Israel, Palestine and Syria
Visiting Israeli analyst Ehud Ya’ari on the emerging “Southern Front” in the Syrian civil war
From the Hood: Sestina SIStina Barcelona
The art of spying, dying and versifying
Decline and Fall
Hebron’s spiral of despair