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Pezzullo: The Warmonger Who Won’t Go Away

Published: Sun 5 May 2024 01:48 PM
Close attention should be paid to the disfiguring way Pezzullo uses history. Read more...

Biden Will Lose If He Can’t Stop Netanyahu From Attacking Rafah

Published: Fri 3 May 2024 02:41 PM
If Biden cannot prevent Netanyahu from attacking Rafah, where the IDF has driven over a million Palestinian refugees, his weakness and complicity will bring down his presidency. Read more...

American Intifada For Gaza: What Should We Expect?

Published: Thu 2 May 2024 07:05 PM
The mass protests at dozens of US universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about antisemitism. Read more...

Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth

Published: Thu 2 May 2024 04:29 PM
In 2014 nearly 40% of GP respondents were practice owners. By 2022 it had declined to 31%. The number of GPs working in GP-owned practice has also fallen from 73% in 2015 to 64% in 2022. Partially filling the practice ownership gap is the for-profit ... Read more...

When Safety Is A Fiction: Passing The UK’s Rwanda Bill

Published: Thu 2 May 2024 02:25 PM
On April 14, 2022, the government of Boris Johnson announced the Asylum Partnership Arrangement with Rwanda, which was intended “to contribute to the prevention and combating of illegally facilitated and unlawful cross border migration by establishing ... Read more...

On unemployment, Winston Peters’ low boiling point and music criticism

Published: Thu 2 May 2024 02:08 PM
The rise in unemployment numbers for the March quarter was bigger than expected – and especially sharp amongst young job seekers. The surge in migration has boosted the ranks of the jobless, and is depressing wage growth. As usual this government ... Read more...

Dunne's Weekly: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise

Published: Thu 2 May 2024 08:21 AM
This week’s announcement of pay raises of around 2.8% backdated to last October could hardly have come at a worse time, with the economy on the brink of recession, massive cutbacks in public expenditure, public sector redundancies and rising unemployment. Read more...

University Investments: Divesting From The Military-Industrial Complex

Published: Wed 1 May 2024 12:54 PM
The rage and protest against Israel’s campaign in Gaza, ongoing since the October 7 attacks by Hamas, has stirred student activity across a number of US university campuses and beyond. Echoes of the Vietnam anti-war protests are being cited. The ... Read more...

On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results

Published: Wed 1 May 2024 10:19 AM
Over the past 36 hours, Christopher Luxon has been dong his best to portray the centre-right’s plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous ... Read more...

Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening

Published: Wed 1 May 2024 06:00 AM
Ian Powell discusses building on the constructive relationship between Cuba and New Zealand in the context of the Unites States economic warfare (embargo) against Cuba and the recent UN Rapporteurs findings. Read more...
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