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Luckily for Sarah Palin, the focus on the presidential debates and the $700 million bailout plan helped to bury a horrific series of news events […]

***** Gordon Campbell interviews Hone Harawira about Maori Party election strategy – Images Kevin List While the Maori Party does at times consciously project an […]

This is crunch week for the US financial system, and the Democrats need to play hardball and vote against the $700 billion bailout plan. Because […]

By Gordon Campbell Image – Lyndon Hood ***** This week, the public itself could be forgiven for treating Parliament with contempt. In a majority decision, […]

By Gordon Campbell Click to enlarge ***** So, what impact is the world’s biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression having on the New Zealand […]

Words Gordon Campbell – Images Kevin List ***** The final lingering image of the privileges committee investigation of Winston Peters was an apt one – […]

Click to enlarge So election day is November 8 which – it seems from media commentary over the weekend – was totally obvious to political […]

Image – Lyndon Hood ***** Winston Peters goal last night was simple survival. And if the rules of natural justice rules still apply, he did […]

Image – Lyndon Hood ***** Winston Peters goal last night was simple survival. And if the rules of natural justice rules still apply, he did […]

Robert Fisk at the Copthorne Hotel, Mt Victoria Wellington September 2008 – Images Kevin List ***** Robert Fisk was born 62 years ago in Maidstone, […]

Images Kevin List ***** With hindsight – or even you’d think, with foresight – it was not a great idea for Michael Cullen to be […]

Briefly: Strike three may signal that Winston Peters and New Zealand First are soon to be out for the count. Beforehand, and despite all the […]

Click to enlarge Like clashing CGI dinosaurs in a Peter Jackson movie, the Serious Fraud Office and Winston Peters seem to be creatures from another […]

Click for big version Realistically, how long should it take the Serious Fraud Office to establish whether a prima facie case of fraud really does […]

Click for big version Realistically, how long should it take the Serious Fraud Office to establish whether a prima facie case of fraud really does […]

Sarah Palin as beauty pageant contender 1984 ***** Well, it didn’t take long for detail to surface on one of the problems Sarah Palin brings […]

How ironic that Helen Clark chose in 2005 to create a governing bloc with Winston Peters for reasons of stability, to ensure that her government […]

So the Greens’ long, slow striptease over the Emissions Trading Scheme has now come to an end, with the party being granted a G-string of […]

Like the gong starting round one, Newstalk ZB’s Barry Soper got in the first shot – what’s the election date ? – but no one […]

Like the gong starting round one, Newstalk ZB’s Barry Soper got in the first shot – what’s the election date ? – but no one […]

Gordon Campbell on National’s plans for roads, schools and hospitals + Bloggers + Biden Click to enlarge ***** Interesting that the National Party is seriously […]

Like most peeks behind the diplomatic curtain, the gaffe about the Australian briefing paper on Helen Clark was amusing, but instructive. Talk about the pot […]

Like most peeks behind the diplomatic curtain, the gaffe about the Australian briefing paper on Helen Clark was amusing, but instructive. Talk about the pot […]

Images Kevin List On the night, it seemed like game, set and match to Winston Peters in his initial skirmish with Parliament’s privileges committee. If […]

Images Kevin List On the night, it seemed like game, set and match to Winston Peters in his initial skirmish with Parliament’s privileges committee. If […]

***** While the release on bail of the Iranian Christian convert Thomas Yadegary is a victory in the short term – and a substantial relief […]

Gordon Campbell On Arts Funding Policy Click to enlarge Some people, including quite a few artists, find the very notion of state funding of the […]

Click to enlarge ***** Will John Key’s policy announcement on welfare this afternoon do much to resolve the problems it claims to address ? Hardly. […]

Pretty doggedly, the mainstream media have stuck to their guns and kept the storyline on the secret tapes fiasco firmly focused where the National Party […]

Images Kevin List ***** Normally the Prime Minister’s press conference virtually sets the political agenda for the early part of the week but not this […]