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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 […]
Gordon Campbell on the Northland by-election
Supposedly, Winston Peters’ victory in Northland has exposed the simmering dissatisfaction with the government that exists out in the provinces. Yet it remains to be […]
Gordon Campbell on a funeral in Asia, the Northland by-election, and news priorities
Supposedly, New Zealand’s destiny lies in Asia, and that was one of Foreign Minister Murray McCully’s rationales for his bungled reforms at MFAT. OK. So, […]
The Myth of Steven Joyce
Is he the solution or a big, big part of the problem?
Journalism, History and Forgetting
Why is our past a foreign country?
Climate of Fear
Are we being intimidated into silence about everything that matters?
Edward Snowden, Art Object
Simon Denny takes mass surveillance to the Venice Biennale…
Finding Love in Hell
How does David Lynch’s Wild at Heart look, 25 years later?
From the Hood: Not flag-waving; flag-drowning
Running a few ideas up the flagpole to see if anyone repeatedly chops them down
Hey, Have You Guys Been Watching…
The tedium of talking about TV shows
Food democracy, South and North
The evolution of the politics of food
The Complicatist : Willie Nelson
Looking back at 50 years of Nashville’s black sheep boy
***** Werewolf Issue 52, December 2014 *****
The December 2014 edition of Werewolf
Gordon Campbell on Pacific spying, Obama as Spock and Kendrick Lamar
So New Zealand has using the GCSB to spy on its friends and allies in the Pacific – and has not only been passing on […]
Gordon Campbell on the role of South African mercenaries in the war on terrorism
For anyone with memories of the apartheid era, there will be mixed feelings about the news this week that South African mercenaries are playing a […]
Gordon Campbell on the Vanuatu cyclone and its media coverage
Having media crews in a disaster zone can help to (a) pinpoint areas of need and (b) provide some re-assurance to the victims that the […]
Gordon Campbell on how Europe is (finally) acting against Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses
For decades, the ringing statements on human rights by various European and US governments have been undermined by the diplomatic support they’ve given to the […]
Gordon Campbell on the dairy contamination threats, and parental policing of scary movies
The sole upside for the government in its release of a three month old threat to contaminate infant formula is that the story knocked Winston […]
Gordon Campbell on the Northland by election, and a TPP news round-up
Incredibly, Winston Peters is back at centre stage of New Zealand politics, and in the role he likes best – as the virtuous underdog, fighting […]