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Killing The Dream
The murder of South African housing activist Nkululeko Gwala
The Complicatist : Listening To Breaking Bad
The use of music in Vince Gilligan’s great series
Profiting Off Prisoners
Dealing with the problems created by the prison industry
From The Hood : Pure Petroleume
As if royals are in charge of anything these days.
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 42, September 2013 * * * * *
The September 2013 Edition of Werewolf
Gordon Campbell on John Key at the UN, and the Breaking Bad finale
Prime Minister John Key’s speech to the United Nations was aimed mainly at the audience back home, in a plucky, we’re punching above our weight […]
Gordon Campbell on muzzling the Ruataniwha dam evidence
In case anyone still questions the value of our public investment in state radio, the revelations about the Ruataniwha dam project – which began with […]
Gordon Campbell on the Labour reshuffle
Like a dog with a bone, the media can’t seem to let a good angle about the Labour team reshuffle die without a fight. It […]
Gordon Campbell on the Nick Smith saga, and the America’s Cup
Yesterday’s attempts by Conservation Minister Nick Smith to nitpick his way out of the Ruataniwha scandal seem to have reached a stalemate. Smith continues to […]
Gordon Campbell on Nick Smith’s latest steps to undermine river quality
The Ruataniwha dam proposed for Hawke’s Bay has been controversial on a number of counts, but the issues involved have just cranked up a whole […]
Gordon Campbell on the government’s dubious mandate for its asset sales programme
The decision to proceed with the share float of Meridian Energy is outrageous enough, given that a referendum on the entire asset sales programme is […]
Gordon Campbell on David Cunliffe winning the Labour leadership
Finally, David Cunliffe can begin the task of rebuilding and repositioning the Labour Party that should have occurred at the end of the Helen Clark […]
Gordon Campbell on dialling back the anti-Key rhetoric, and the Putin Plan For Syria
It goes without saying that Labour supporters don’t like Prime Minister John Key very much. And since it will be Labour Party members, unions and […]
Gordon Campbell on the practice of selective morality towards Syria
As Prime Minister John Key said at yesterday’s post-Cabinet press conference, the briefings on Syria and the exchanges of views New Zealand has been engaged […]
Gordon Campbell on the Labour leadership race
In Papal elections, the front-runner is often doomed to disappointment, as the weaker factions combine and wear the main contender down. Not always (e.g. Pius […]
Australian Election : They’re A Weird Mob
Watching on (in horror) as our Australian cousins hold an election
Australian Election : Fetishizing The Surplus
Economist John Quiggin on the state of the Australian economy
Australian Election : Blaming The Boat People
As Rudd and Abbott use asylum seekers as a political football…
Drugstore Vampires
There’s still plenty of life left in the undead….
Jordan, Bearing The Brunt
The spillover from the war in Syria is taking its toll on Jordan’s fragile institutions
From The Hood : Armchairs At Dawn
A mind is a terribly wasteful thing to democratize…
The Complicatist : Miley Cyrus, and Dancing About Architecture
Feet don’t fail my words
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 41, August 2013 * * * * *
The August 2013 Edition of Werewolf
Gordon Campbell on the asset sales referendum victory
All credit to Grey Power and the Greens for getting across the sky high threshold required to trigger a Citizens Initiated Referendum (CIR) on the […]
Gordon Campbell on the Police refusal to prosecute the GCSB
The last gift from David Shearer to the National Party was his resignation, which has happily diverted the media into weeks of speculation about his […]
On the risks of intervention in Syria
As Barack Obama considers the US-led response to the gas attack in Syria, the nuances of that response are getting more, not less difficult. How […]
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s alleged divisions and newfound sense of unity
When you’re languishing in Opposition, the divisions in caucus are evident, the ideological nerve ends all too nakedly exposed. Everyone in the lifeboat has different […]
On Shearer’s exit, and where Labour goes from here
Some political animals would have grasped for survival at the results of the latest Roy Morgan poll, which showed National losing ground and with the […]
Gordon Campbell on the latest asset sales handout, and some really bad news from Afghanistan
New Zealand has already spent $30 million as a gift to Rio Tinto over the Tiwau Point aluminium smelter – essentially, to buy the government […]