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The First Helen Thomas Honorary Bile Riser List
One of my heros hung up her steno pad this month. In honour of a good warrior having fought long, valiantly and well, this week I give you my first ever honorary Helen Thomas Bile Risers List. Enjoy. [More]
BP: Beyond Poisonous Spin
This story is about the immorality of the lie that masquerades as public relations. It is about the tragedy of “containment”–and I don’t mean oil. [More]
Is This The War You Want New Zealand?
It was like someone had dropped our Prime Minister in a 2002 time warp of stock phrases that no longer make any sense for the actual war in front of him today. We got rote blurbs about fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan [they uprooted to Pakistan years ago] and combating terror [instead of fostering it anew in Pakistan] like it was pulled off General McChrystal’s teleprompter. [More]
Watching Collateral Murder Online
I don’t know what sickens me more, watching murder online, or knowing that since last week over 6 million other YouTube viewers joined me. My fear is that it isn’t political conscience that’s driving eyeballs to the leaked US military video showing a dozen people mowed down on an Iraqi street—it’s infotainment. [More]
Pathetic Pundit’s Audacity of Nope
My profession sucks at what they do. Let me be very specific. Commentators, pundits, columnists, people like me who get their little heads put in a box on the left side of the story, are myopic sheep— on a good day. [More]
The Biggest Story You’ve Never Heard
The biggest story you’ve never heard of in the last decade had nothing to do with 9/11 or the War on Terror. It is a story that will have more ramifications to your life than Al Qaeda ever will, yet you probably have no idea what Operation Aurora, Titan Rain, or GhostNet is. [More]
Welcome to John Key’s The Age of Beige
One year on from John Key taking office and it feels as if New Zealand has entered the Age of Beige– and I can’t think of anything more terrifying. [More]
The Terrible Cost of War by the Numbers
Today more US soldiers are commiting suicide than are dying in combat while overseas. This is the highest suicide rate the Army has reported since record keeping began. [More]
The Wrong Enemy
When Dr. John Johnson finally brought himself to look at the slain body of his beautiful 19-year-old daughter flown home from Iraq, he knew immediately he was looking at murder. [More]
For Our Daughters
Louise Nicholas lost the trials she always believed would rebalance justice. But she won something much bigger than her own experience. She won a different future for her daughter– one that was stolen from her past. [More]
The First Helen Thomas Honorary Bile Riser List
One of my heros hung up her steno pad this month. In honour of a good warrior having fought long, valiantly and well, this week I give you my first ever honorary Helen Thomas Bile Risers List. Enjoy. [More]
BP: Beyond Poisonous Spin
This story is about the immorality of the lie that masquerades as public relations. It is about the tragedy of “containment”–and I don’t mean oil. [More]
Is This The War You Want New Zealand?
It was like someone had dropped our Prime Minister in a 2002 time warp of stock phrases that no longer make any sense for the actual war in front of him today. We got rote blurbs about fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan [they uprooted to Pakistan years ago] and combating terror [instead of fostering it anew in Pakistan] like it was pulled off General McChrystal’s teleprompter. [More]
Watching Collateral Murder Online
I don’t know what sickens me more, watching murder online, or knowing that since last week over 6 million other YouTube viewers joined me. My fear is that it isn’t political conscience that’s driving eyeballs to the leaked US military video showing a dozen people mowed down on an Iraqi street—it’s infotainment. [More]
Pathetic Pundit’s Audacity of Nope
My profession sucks at what they do. Let me be very specific. Commentators, pundits, columnists, people like me who get their little heads put in a box on the left side of the story, are myopic sheep— on a good day. [More]
The Biggest Story You’ve Never Heard
The biggest story you’ve never heard of in the last decade had nothing to do with 9/11 or the War on Terror. It is a story that will have more ramifications to your life than Al Qaeda ever will, yet you probably have no idea what Operation Aurora, Titan Rain, or GhostNet is. [More]
Welcome to John Key’s The Age of Beige
One year on from John Key taking office and it feels as if New Zealand has entered the Age of Beige– and I can’t think of anything more terrifying. [More]
The Terrible Cost of War by the Numbers
Today more US soldiers are commiting suicide than are dying in combat while overseas. This is the highest suicide rate the Army has reported since record keeping began. [More]
The Wrong Enemy
When Dr. John Johnson finally brought himself to look at the slain body of his beautiful 19-year-old daughter flown home from Iraq, he knew immediately he was looking at murder. [More]