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Click to enlarge Gordon Campbell asks whether TVNZ and TV3 should be tutoring the spin merchants Should shepherds be in the business of selling the […]

Barack Obama, Sr ***** Gordon Campbell on Obama’s debt to the other, hidden legacy of Martin Luther King As Barack Obama wakes up for the […]

Barack Obama, Sr ***** Gordon Campbell on Obama’s debt to the other, hidden legacy of Martin Luther King As Barack Obama wakes up for the […]

Gordon Campbell Stung by comments that his government has been on holiday for nearly a third of its first 100 days of action, Prime Minister […]

By Gordon Campbell The Taliban circa 2001 ***** If Iraq has been George Bush’s war, Afghanistan is shaping up to be an operation that is […]

Collective punishment is a war crime under section 33 of the Geneva Convention, and New Zealand is one of the 194 signatory countries to that […]

Over the next fortnight or so, the mainstream media will be providing Year in Review space fillers aplenty, so enough already for the Barack Obama/John […]

Gordon Campbell Commodore Bainimarama – Image Selwyn Manning ***** In every crisis there is an opportunity, and Commodore Bainimarama has given the new National-led government […]

The Transition Package There is a striking lack of co-ordination between the existing benefit system and the government’s ‘worst case scenario’ transition package. Although the […]

Gordon Campbell on the 90 day employment Bill of Wrongs Any honeymoon the new government might have hoped to enjoy has been blown away by […]

Gordon Campbell on the 90 day employment Bill of Wrongs Any honeymoon the new government might have hoped to enjoy has been blown away by […]

Gordon Campbell on the 90 day ‘fire at will’ legislation, and on the faster broadband plan. So much for due consideration to an important change […]

Images Kevin List ***** Gordon Campbell talks to Britain’s foremost legal authority about human rights in the post 9/11 world, and the war in Iraq. […]

Images Kevin List ***** Gordon Campbell talks to Britain’s foremost legal authority about human rights in the post 9/11 world, and the war in Iraq. […]

Everyone knows that Hollywood is a den of godless, Obama –loving pinko liberals. That being so, New Zealand’s transformation, post Rings, into a minor hub […]

Gordon Campbell on the escape flights from Thailand, and on taxing people for flying long distances. While the Australians are laying on special Qantas flights […]

Gordon Campbell on the scrapping of Agenda and the future of state broadcasting The recent axing of TVNZ’s current affairs programme Agenda has been only […]

Famous fictional boss CJ didn’t get where he is today by not planning for a financial crisis ***** On paper, the new government’s reaction to […]

By Gordon Campbell Local Government Minister Rodney Hide talks about slashing red tape on Close Up 25.11.08 ***** Giving the local government portfolio to Rodney […]

Image: APEC The clip on last night’s television of George W. Bush genially patting new boy John Key on the back at the APEC gathering […]

Prime Minister in waiting John Key announces his Cabinet ***** The new Cabinet has been greeted with such hosannas from the mainstream media we can […]

***** Despite sitting outside Cabinet, Rodney Hide, Roger Douglas and their ACT Party mates are positioning themselves to be the bean counters in the new […]

***** Despite sitting outside Cabinet, Rodney Hide, Roger Douglas and their ACT Party mates are positioning themselves to be the bean counters in the new […]

The premise of Labour’s election campaign was that John Key was either (a) a vacuum waiting to be filled by political expedience or (b) a […]

Not unexpectedly, Phil Goff’s first press conference as Labour leader did include a mea culpa of sorts for the “disconnect’ that had occurred in Labour’s […]

Gordon Campbell on John Key’s peculiar government, and its response to the economic crisis That John Key certainly is a joker. In the face of […]

Click to enlarge From now on, this 2008 election can serve as the poster child of MMP. In future, anyone who wants to seriously diss […]