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Pearls and Irritations

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Killing Russian general won’t stop reality crashing in on Ukraine

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The dismemberment of Syria is a crime

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The demon in the mirror

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In the death throes of Ukraine’s lost war, we witness the birth of WWIII

In the space of a couple of days this week two completely unprecedented attacks occurred that have the potential to rewrite world history. The US and...

25.11.2024 20

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Defying settler colonialism

Far from the killing grounds of Gaza, an incredible display of defiance to settler colonialism has broken out in, of all places, New Zealand. The two...

21.11.2024 10

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BBC goes full Goebbels in support of Israeli soccer hooligans

“IDF will fuck the Arabs!”, “Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there!” Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans chanting on 8...

11.11.2024 10

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The axis of genocide

The West, “will stand by the Israeli regime until they exterminate the last Palestinian”, says Mohammad Seyed Marandi, an American-Iranian...

07.11.2024 9

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The Ukraine war is lost. Three options remain

George Beebe, long-time head of Russia analysis at the CIA, a 27-year veteran of the agency and now the current head of Grand Strategy at the Quincy...

31.10.2024 7

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To Jews and Christians of faith: you can’t sit out a genocide

This week I read an article in Al Jazeera describing the killing in one day of hundreds of Palestinian civilians. The same day I read a piece in CNN,...

29.10.2024 10

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US is spending $28 billion on Sinophobic propaganda to colonise your brain

21.10.2024 10

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Yahya Sinwar – history will judge the living and the dead

The political and military leader of Hamas is dead. Some cheer. Some weep. History will judge the living and the dead. I wish Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya...

20.10.2024 10

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Driving VW off a cliff: Germany’s lemming strategy and what it means for us

Something absolutely stupefying is happening in Germany: its iconic auto company, VW, the darling of every Chancellor from Adolf Hitler to Olaf...

19.09.2024 9

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The US made the Dutch an offer they couldn’t refuse

Hold on to your mobile phones, civilians, this is gonna get rough. If you thought the Sopranos and Corleones were intimidating, check this out. ...

07.09.2024 8

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Gaza happened because we forgot Korea

History didn’t start on 7 October. True that. To get a deeper sense of why the shocking destruction in Gaza is happening, we have to revive the...

05.09.2024 10

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Exiting Pax Americana could save our bacon 

Ordinary New Zealanders and Australians have little idea about the momentous changes coming our way. For a couple of centuries we have been outposts...

24.08.2024 8

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Iran is about to attack Israel

Iran may be about to launch a proper missile strike on Israel for the first time ever – in retaliation for the attack on Tehran last month which...

12.08.2024 9

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Team genocide walks out on Nagasaki commemorations

In an astonishing “Fuck you” to the survivors of the 1945 US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, several Western countries including the US, Australia,...

08.08.2024 5

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Rape and genocide: the Israeli war machine we support

The headline above is outrageous and incendiary – it is also unquestionably true. We have a duty to bear witness to what the Palestinians must...

06.08.2024 6

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As Eurasia awakes our world will shake

“Tectonic shifts are underway in global politics, economy, and other spheres of international relations. A fairer multipolar world order is being...

01.08.2024 8

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It’s bigger than NATO and it’s heading our way

Australia and New Zealand’s populations must now wake up to the fact that our countries have been drawn into what ForeignPolicy.com called the...

21.07.2024 30

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Warning from the edge of the abyss

A famous US politician shot. Nuclear missiles positioned close to an enemy superpower. A nervous world wonders, ‘What next?”. It happened in the...

16.07.2024 8

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The time Antony Blinken went to bed with Sergey Lavrov

Once upon a time the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken booked a nice hotel room with a Queen bed and invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...

13.07.2024 10

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Muzzling the dogs of war: the time to stop the madness is now

It may be time to think the unthinkable: all the signs are pointing to the West preparing to launch a proper war in Europe. Once started it could...

01.07.2024 10

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US shoots itself with own super-weapon

The USA has shot itself in the head with its own wonder weapon. The most powerful weapon in the US arsenal is not F-16 jets, Himar missiles, or any of...

28.06.2024 5

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Shoot the messenger, kill the story

Daniel Everett Hale killed lots of innocent people. He went to jail, not for killing people – he was paid to do that by the US government – but...

19.06.2024 10

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Are you ready for WWIII? The Russians are

The Armavir Incident – the destruction on 23 May of a key part of Russia’s nuclear defence – means the Doomsday clock is ticking closer to...

06.06.2024 8

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Shattered theory: the war on terror and Western impunity

Could the final act of the US’s Global War on Terror (GWOT) be the conviction of a US President for terrorism? Tantalising but implausible? Read on....

29.05.2024 20

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The liberation of Kanaky: resisting France’s brutal colonial overlordships in the Pacific

“Only the struggle counts … death is nothing.” Eloi Machoro – ‘the Che Guevara of the Pacific’ – shortly before he was gunned down by a...

23.05.2024 50

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We “share values” with people committing genocide

17.05.2024 20

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Is New Zealand slurping the AUKUS Kool-Aid?

12.05.2024 50

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Free Palestine’s Mandela -Twenty years in captivity

He is by far the most popular Palestinian leader alive today – and yet few people in the West even know his name. Everyone one in Gaza or the West...

01.05.2024 10

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Joining AUKUS not in NZ’s national interest

Helen Clark, o how I miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister – the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory – gave a...

19.04.2024 10

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It is time to de-demonise Hamas

Who would not condemn the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 when hundreds of Israeli civilians, as well as hundreds of military and security personnel...

10.04.2024 7

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Remember their last words

A few days ago, on 25 February, US serviceman Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington in protest at the US...

06.03.2024 8

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Things are not what they seem

We are homo dramatis, the species that tells stories. Today more and more of us are rejecting America and Israel’s stories and are searching for a...

21.02.2024 40

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Silencing Francesca Albanese

It was with a sense of disgust rather than despair that I read in the Jerusalem Post this week: “‘Antisemitic’ UN Special Rapporteur Francesca...

14.02.2024 10

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The edge of war, our battle for truth

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” George Orwell, 1984. On the opening day of the bombing last week, I...

05.02.2024 9

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New Zealand goose-steps towards the moral abyss

With its decision to suspend or “pause” funding to the United Nation’s key organisation that is providing assistance to Gaza’s famished,...

02.02.2024 10

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Houthis save the world: Why New Zealand is on the wrong side of history

The State of Israel can butcher thousands of innocents but New Zealand would not lift a finger to provide support to its victims. IDF soldiers can gun...

29.01.2024 7

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Christ is born in Gaza

Why was Christ born in a stable? Because the Israelis bombed all the houses. Truly. Every year Jesus is born, dies and is reborn. He is reborn into...

23.12.2023 10

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