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 […]
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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 […]
Gordon Campbell on the final round for the GCSB Bill
Having tried and failed to sell the GCSB Bill by invoking the bogeyman of terrorism – “PM Justifies Spy Bill : Kiwis trained by al […]
Gordon Campbell on Egypt, the F-35 and Nanny National
Yesterday, this column compared events in Egypt to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and – spookily – there is now an image to drive […]
Gordon Campbell on the latest events in Egypt
The bloody events in Egypt have a familiar ring. The “clearing” of long term encampments convened as a passive protest in defence of democracy. The […]
Gordon Campbell on putting profit potential ahead of human potential
Does New Zealand – despite our claims to egalitarianism and everyone being equal before the law – treat the people engaged in tax evasion more […]
Nanny National
In John Key, has Big Government and Corporate Power found their most devoted servant?
Dotcomming The TPP
Does what the government is saying inside the TPP contradict its support for Dotcom’s prosecution?
Feeling The Love For X Factor
Why you should have watched the most hated show on television
First, They Came For Your Lightbulbs
Some misgivings, as the incandescent bulb heads for the industrial scrapheap
Classics : Ernest and Celestine
Life on the emotional edge, with the bear father and the mouse child
Abortion, Against the Tide
Why is access to abortion under such fierce attack in the United States?
Gods and Monsters
Maybe Pacific Rim is the best film that Guillermo Del Toro could have made right now