Dear Editor A lovely photo from the 31st of May with one of the presidential candidates, who was born and brought up in Morocco, surrounded by young Israelis. Does not look one bit like apartheid South Africa. I mean in reality, apart from the black people in the photo, it’
No matter what Muslims might claim, Nazis are easily Hollywood’s go-to villains, these days. Whether it’s Indiana Jones, Marvel films, or Oscar-baiting Holocaust films, if Hollywood wants a bad guy: slap on a black uniform and some shiny boots. It wasn’t always that way, of course. From
Scott Whitlock newsbusters.org Scott Whitlock is the associate editor for the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.org website. Previously, he was a contributing editor and the MRC’s senior news analyst. HBO’s Bill Maher is a liberal, there’s no doubt about that. But he’s an honest
Dr Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. June 2, 2021 Today’s Herald editorial isn’t buying all the forced bonhomie, instead lampooning how the rather contrived patching up of differences,
Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Dr Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz June 2, 2021 The level of orchestration and political acting was turned up a notch this week in Queenstown by Prime Ministers Jacinda Ardern
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Almost certainly, if you asked the right-on hordes of woke lefties protesting for Palestine, they’d be horrified at the suggestion that they’re anti-Semites. After all, hating Jews is what Nazis do. They might even be sincere – even if more than a few of them like to be a
New Zealand’s prime minister has been fed a steady drip of treats and belly-rubs from China in return for rolling over and sitting up for the past two years. Now that she’s soiled the carpet, the rolled-up newspaper is out in a flash. Beijing has lashed out at
Russian president Vladimir Putin might be many things, but stupid is not one of them. “Woke” is another: Putin is one of the last people who’d be browbeaten by a bunch of scowling teenagers and bourgeois loonies gluing themselves to roads. Putin is also not the sort to deliberately
IINZ israelinstitute.nz The United Nations is institutionally racist against the Jewish nation. New Zealand officials have contributed to this systematic bullying of Israel by voting for the disproportionate number and unequally vitriolic resolutions at the General Assembly each year. In voting against Israel, New Zealand’s record is more
It’s what we in Australia call “pulling your head in”. It’s what happens when some drongo at the footy or in the pub is mouthing off and everyone else is silently cracking the shits with them. Pretty soon, they get told to “pull yer head in”. Being invariably
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. May 31, 2021 Is New Zealand navigating the China-West, politics-trade relationship in a craven way? Increasingly that seems to be the view from overseas, and
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project. He has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is a fluent Arabic speaker. Nanaia Mahuta’s comments on China in a Guardian interview last week brought
30th May 2021 I have managed to reconnect with useful sources and the situation is getting complex. In protests against the previous coups, the opposition tended to gradually fade away after a few weeks as the military turned the screws and imposed their will on the people. The current coup
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As I’ve reported for The BFD, the ineluctable realities of demographics and geopolitics are against China’s superpower ambitions. Geopolitically, superpowerdom means a lot more than just military strength. A superpower has the sort of cultural clout that draws other nations into its sphere of influence by a kind
