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Gordon Campbell on Israel’s murderous relapse, and Peters’ sad decline

March 24, 2025 0

In the past week, Israel has reverted to slaughtering civilians, starving children and welshing on the terms of the peace deal negotiated earlier this year. […]

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Gordon Campbell on Winston Peters’ bad trip, and the return of the PPPs zombie

March 19, 2025 0

According to RNZ’s embedded reporter, the importance of Winston Peters’ talks in Washington this week “cannot be overstated.” Right. “Exceptionally important.” said the maestro himself. […]

Gordon Campbell On The Coalition’s Empty Gestures, And Abortion Refusal As The New Slavery

December 16, 2024 0

This whooping cough story from south Auckland is a good example of the coalition government’s approach to social need – spend money on urging people […]

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Gordon Campbell On Why An AUKUS Led By Trump Is A Scary Prospect

December 3, 2024 0

According to Social Development Minister Louise Upton her latest crackdown on the unemployed is just “common sense.” Oh, really. Upston is threatening to reduce or […]

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Gordon Campbell on fast track powers, media woes and the Tiktok ban

April 22, 2024 0

Feel worried. Shane Jones and a couple of his Cabinet colleagues are about to be granted the power to override any and all objections to […]

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Gordon Campbell on the US opposition to mortgage interest deductibility for landlords

March 28, 2024 0

Should landlords be able to deduct the interest on the loans they take out to bankroll their property speculation? The US Senate Budget Committee and […]

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Gordon Campbell on the Supreme Court’s collusion with Trump

March 6, 2024 0

This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. In the week preceding the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, a US Supreme Court stacked with Trump appointees […]

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Gordon Campbell on how Christopher Luxon is turning NZ into a US proxy

January 25, 2024 0

How many students can pack into a phone booth? Surely, nowhere near as many as the double standards the Luxon government is packing into its […]

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Gordon Campbell on Treaty principles, and Nikki Haley’s false dawn

January 23, 2024 0

So the government wants to “debate” the principles of Te Tiriti, even though its own Māori Development Minister has been simultaneously assuring us that these […]

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Gordon Campbell on Biden v Trump, and the Taiwan election

January 11, 2024 0

If the allegations against Golriz Ghahraman are found to have substance – or even if they merely result in an official Police investigation – then […]

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Gordon Campbell on immigration’s role in the Gaza carnage

January 8, 2024 0

If the world was in any doubt about what Israel’s endgame in Gaza might be, this (Google translated) Christmas Day report in the Israeli media […]

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Gordon Campbell on why abortion rights offer the best chance of beating Donald Trump

November 10, 2023 0

Remarkably… Although the US opinion polls continue to track the declining popularity of Joe Biden, the Democrats still scored important victories this week in a […]

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Gordon Campbell on how the Americans helped put Hamas in power in Gaza

October 31, 2023 0

To all intents, Hamas suddenly sprang out from behind the Oort Cloud on October 7 as a force of incomprehensible evil… Just when some important […]

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Gordon Campbell on dancing with NATO on Defence

July 12, 2023 0

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has been keeping some serious company of late. He’s been signing a free trade deal with the EU, shooting off to […]

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Gordon Campbell on losing the Ukraine war

June 14, 2023 0

Obviously, no-one defends the RNZ digital journalist who distorted the content and meaning of so many articles on the Ukraine war, some of them bylined […]

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Gordon Campbell on red tape and Nicky Hager’s regal reward

June 6, 2023 0

Not for the first time, David Seymour looks like an answer to a non-existent problem. Reportedly, ACT is promising to establish a Ministry of Regulations […]

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Gordon Campbell on how private profits are driving Defence spending

June 2, 2023 0

Speak of the devil. The Australian website Crikey has just launched an investigative series about the notorious lobbying firm Crosby Textor, or C/T as it […]

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Gordon Campbell on America’s plunge into religious extremism

May 25, 2023 0

Yikes. If either Donald Trump or Florida governor Ron De Santis win next year’s presidential contest with Joe Biden, the commander-in-chief of the world’s greatest […]

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Gordon Campbell on China’s Big New Power Troika

April 20, 2023 0

Rather than run the risk (and suffer the indignity) of putting Rupert Murdoch on the witness stand, Fox News has paid the $US788 million required […]

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Gordon Campbell on rules for lobbyists

April 5, 2023 0

As predicted in this column on Monday the Trump indictment has turned out (a) to hinge on New York state law 175.10 on the falsifying […]

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Gordon Campbell on hiking up interest rates

April 3, 2023 0

Elsewhere in the world, some central bankers are showing signs of re-considering the wisdom of barrelling on with the crusade against inflation. For fear that […]

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Gordon Campbell on the banning of Tik Tok

March 29, 2023 0

For a serial offender like Stuart Nash, it was inevitable that another skeleton would emerge from his closet, and end his ministerial career. This one […]

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Gordon Campbell on how similar Vladimir Putin is to George W. Bush

March 21, 2023 0

Looking back through the names of our Police Ministers down the years, the job has either been done by once or future party Bigfoots – […]

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Gordon Campbell on the Hipkins cutbacks, and the major Saudi/Iran deal

March 15, 2023 0

Most days, Chris Hipkins and James Shaw seem a bit like the Seals and Crofts of the centre-left: Earnest, inoffensive, and capable of quite nice […]

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Gordon Campbell on AUKUS and Australia’s decision on nuclear subs

March 13, 2023 0

Update: Evidently, Reuters were correct in the major details reported below on Werewolf, prior to the official AUKUS announcement. Yes, the US will begin to […]

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Gordon Campbell on using the trade weapon against China

March 8, 2023 0

Yikes. First Rob Campbell, now Steve Maharey. It seems we are going to fire – or expect public self-flagellation –from every chair of a Crown […]

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Gordon Campbell on how the US Supreme Court could ruin the Internet

February 21, 2023 0

For obvious reasons, we’ve all been a bit cyclone-fixated this past week, while the rest of the world has kept ticking over regardless. For example: […]

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Gordon Campbell on the bad outlook for fuel and transport costs

January 27, 2023 0

Ok, there’s good news and bad news in this week’s inflation figures, but bad > good. Our inflation rate held steady but hey, at a […]

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