Gordon Campbell on five of Luxon’s Gaza absurdities
Earlier this week, PM Christopher Luxon met with 48 public service CEOs to make sure they were on board with his plans to cut spending […]
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Gordon Campbell on ACT’s flat tax fever
Party on, dudes. Repeatedly, the policy adventures of Christopher Luxon and David Seymour are taking New Zealand back in time to the most excellent year […]
Gordon Campbell on the Gaza genocide hearings
Don’t hold your breath for a final judgement from the International Court of Justice as to whether Israel is, or isn’t, committing genocide in Gaza. […]
Gordon Campbell on APEC, Mali and Sleater-Kinney
Sideshows are inevitable when the main event – the coalition talks – is taking place behind closed doors and the usual sources for political news […]
Gordon Campbell on how the Americans helped put Hamas in power in Gaza
To all intents, Hamas suddenly sprang out from behind the Oort Cloud on October 7 as a force of incomprehensible evil… Just when some important […]
Gordon Campbell on the attacks on Israel and Gaza
On the day after the Hamas attacks, the Jewish newspaper Haaretz concluded that only a few options were available to Israel’s leaders and all of […]
Gordon Campbell on the protests inside Israel
This week in Jerusalem, about 100,000 Israelis took to the streets to demonstrate against plans by the recently elected coalition government of Benjamin “ Bibi” […]
Gordon Campbell on Palestine’s Christmas and a holiday music playlist
At this time of year, nominally Christian nations are preparing to celebrate the birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Last week however, the UN Human Rights […]
Gordon Campbell on Taliban hardliners, and a lockdown playlist of drug songs
Well, so much for early hopes that the new Taliban “caretaker” government would be more inclusive, and moderate. Instead, we’ve got a Cabinet that is […]
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s complicity in Africa’s last great neo-colonial dispute
If David Parker really wants to hone his crisis-managing chops, he maybe should be turning his attention to the Western Sahara
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.
Gordon Campbell on our posturing at the UN
New Zealand is currently chairing the 15 person Security Council for the last time during our two year term on the Council.
Shaming The United Nations
The UN continues to dodge responsibility for bringing a killer disease to Haiti
Lady in Waiting
Helen Clark’s chances of becoming the next UN Secretary-General
Robbing the Vote
Why the current plan to take the right to vote away from prisoners is a terrible idea