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Apparently, Europe and Ukraine itself will not have a seat at the table in the talks between US President Trump and Vladimir ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00021/on-why-europe-is-being-made-to-go-it-alone.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00020/feeling-very-fine-picasso-the-printmaker-at-the-british-museum.htm">Feeling Very Fine: Picasso The Printmaker At The British Museum</a></h3> <p class="release">Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 8:42 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>In 1905, the print Salomé announces a serious yet teasing effort by Picasso to depict the body of the naked dancer before Herod much “like a blind man who pictures an arse by the way it feels”. 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Given the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948, no Arab government—let alone the Palestinian leadership—would support another Israeli-US effort to ethnically cleanse ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00018/trumps-gaza-plan-a-green-light-for-ethnic-cleansing.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00017/does-cosmic-intelligence-care-about-humanity.htm">Does Cosmic Intelligence Care About Humanity?</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 14 February 2025, 11:27 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Martin_LeFevre_-_Meditations">Martin LeFevre - Meditations</a></p> <p>No amount of activism or number of mass movements can meet the crisis of man. The undivided individual contains the whole of humanity. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00017/does-cosmic-intelligence-care-about-humanity.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00016/far-from-benign-the-us-aid-industrial-complex.htm">Far From Benign: The US Aid Industrial Complex</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 14 February 2025, 9:06 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>To provide aid suggests a benevolent undertaking delivered selflessly. It arises from charitable mission, an attempt to alleviate, or at least soften the blows of hardship arising from various impairments. But the provision of aid is rarely benign, ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00016/far-from-benign-the-us-aid-industrial-complex.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00015/chinese-criminals-international-scams-kidnappings.htm">Chinese Criminals' International Scams & Kidnappings</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 13 February 2025, 2:25 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Richard_S._Ehrlich">Richard S. Ehrlich</a></p> <p>“The United States and China [are] the two most strongly affected victims of the online scamming industry,” USIP said in a 2024 report on Chinese-dominated transnational crime based in Southeast Asia. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00015/chinese-criminals-international-scams-kidnappings.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00014/is-health-new-zealand-becoming-an-audit-office-frequent-flyer.htm">Is Health New Zealand Becoming An Audit Office Frequent Flyer?</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 13 February 2025, 12:02 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ian_Powell">Ian Powell</a></p> <p>Ian Powell discusses whether Health New Zealand is becoming a frequent flyer for the Auditor-General and why that might not be such a bad thing given the circumstances. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00014/is-health-new-zealand-becoming-an-audit-office-frequent-flyer.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00013/gordon-campbell-on-why-golden-visas-are-a-losing-bet-on-growth.htm">Gordon Campbell On Why “golden Visas” Are A Losing Bet On Growth</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 13 February 2025, 11:57 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Gordon_Campbell">Gordon Campbell</a></p> <p>For obvious reasons, people feel uneasy when the right to be a citizen is sold off to wealthy foreigners. Even selling the right to residency seems a bit dubious. For obvious reasons, people feel uneasy when the right to be a citizen is sold off to ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00013/gordon-campbell-on-why-golden-visas-are-a-losing-bet-on-growth.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00012/dunnes-weekly-next-election-still-nationals-to-lose.htm">Dunne's Weekly: Next Election Still National's To Lose</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 13 February 2025, 9:15 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Peter_Dunne">Peter Dunne</a></p> <p>The National-led coalition is more precariously positioned at present than each of the last two Labour-led governments were at similar stages in the previous two Parliaments. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00012/dunnes-weekly-next-election-still-nationals-to-lose.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00011/gordon-campbell-on-surviving-the-47th-us-president.htm">Gordon Campbell On Surviving The 47th US President</a></h3> <p class="release">Tuesday, 11 February 2025, 1:40 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Gordon_Campbell">Gordon Campbell</a></p> <p>Three weeks in, and the 24/7 news cycle is not helping anyone feel calm and informed about the second Trump presidency. After only three weeks, it is already exhausting. The media is being propelled into a sustained state of Attention Deficit Disorder. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00011/gordon-campbell-on-surviving-the-47th-us-president.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00010/the-billionaire-who-could-not-be-stopped.htm">The Billionaire Who Could Not Be Stopped</a></h3> <p class="release">Monday, 10 February 2025, 3:41 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Richard_S._Ehrlich">Richard S. Ehrlich</a></p> <p>Mr. Thaksin is now so larger-than-life that many allege he manipulates Thailand's government through his seemingly timid daughter Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 38, who was elected by Parliament in August and appears to eagerly agree with his ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00010/the-billionaire-who-could-not-be-stopped.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00009/the-great-march-of-hope-gazas-defiance-against-erasure.htm">The Great March Of Hope: Gaza’s Defiance Against Erasure</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 7 February 2025, 2:01 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ramzy_Baroud">Ramzy Baroud</a></p> <p>While many, including some sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, openly challenged the Gazans' view of their perceived 'victory,' they failed to appreciate the history of Palestine—indeed, the history of all colonized people who wrested their freedom ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00009/the-great-march-of-hope-gazas-defiance-against-erasure.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00008/relations-between-canada-and-america-are-at-their-lowest-point-since-the-american-revolutionary-war.htm">Relations Between Canada And America Are At Their Lowest Point Since The American Revolutionary War</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 7 February 2025, 11:54 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Martin_LeFevre_-_Meditations">Martin LeFevre - Meditations</a></p> <p>This Nationalistic Race to the Bottom Is Compelling a Global Summit <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00008/relations-between-canada-and-america-are-at-their-lowest-point-since-the-american-revolutionary-war.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00007/more-uk-lessons-for-labour-party-in-new-zealand.htm">More UK Lessons For Labour Party In New Zealand</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 6 February 2025, 3:23 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ian_Powell">Ian Powell</a></p> <p>Ian Powell discusses The Lessons Of A Recent Dramatic UK Political Poll For The Labour Party In New Zealand <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00007/more-uk-lessons-for-labour-party-in-new-zealand.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00006/dunnes-weekly-corporate-tax-reduction-overdue.htm">Dunne's Weekly: Corporate Tax Reduction Overdue</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 6 February 2025, 8:36 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Peter_Dunne">Peter Dunne</a></p> <p>Only two business tax reductions in the last 36 years & the last one nearly 14 years ago, at a time of considerable change & turmoil not only shows how badly NZ has lagged other countries, especially at a time when the international movement of capital ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00006/dunnes-weekly-corporate-tax-reduction-overdue.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00005/why-fly-in-europe-the-dark-triumph-of-the-ryanair-effect.htm">Why Fly In Europe? The Dark Triumph Of The Ryanair Effect</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 6 February 2025, 8:12 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>With the triumph of the Ryanair model, ruthlessly emulated by belt tightening carriers who seem to treat their passengers as mere units of income, taking the plane in Europe is no longer an interesting, let alone palatable prospect. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00005/why-fly-in-europe-the-dark-triumph-of-the-ryanair-effect.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00004/on-the-governments-epic-fails-in-jobs-and-housing.htm">On The Government’s Epic Fails In Jobs And Housing</a></h3> <p class="release">Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 12:55 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Gordon_Campbell">Gordon Campbell</a></p> <p>Through its austerity measures, the coalition government has engineered a rise in unemployment in order to reduce inflation while – simultaneously – cracking down harder and harder on the people thrown out of work by its own policies. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00004/on-the-governments-epic-fails-in-jobs-and-housing.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00003/israel-hostages-thailand-jobs.htm">Israel, Hostages, Thailand & Jobs</a></h3> <p class="release">Tuesday, 4 February 2025, 8:42 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Richard_S._Ehrlich">Richard S. Ehrlich</a></p> <p>Thailand was involved in delicate diplomatic efforts to gain their freedom, "so it does not want to create any problems that will cause any misunderstanding among parties involved in the conflict," then-Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00003/israel-hostages-thailand-jobs.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00002/trump-tariffs-and-russia-a-very-muddled-policy.htm">Trump, Tariffs And Russia: A Very Muddled Policy</a></h3> <p class="release">Tuesday, 4 February 2025, 10:08 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>When it comes to dealing with Russia, though, the matter of tariffs sits oddly. In 2024, US imports of Russian goods came in at US$2.8 billion. What is imported from Russia is certainly of value: radioactive materials indispensable for US power stations, ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00002/trump-tariffs-and-russia-a-very-muddled-policy.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00001/gordon-campbell-on-trumps-tariff-wars.htm">Gordon Campbell On Trump’s Tariff Wars</a></h3> <p class="release">Monday, 3 February 2025, 1:51 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Gordon_Campbell">Gordon Campbell</a></p> <p>Trump being Trump, it won’t come as a shock to find that he regards a strong USD (bolstered by high tariffs on everything made by foreigners) as a sign of America’s virility, and its ability to kick sand in the face of the world. Reality is a tad ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00001/gordon-campbell-on-trumps-tariff-wars.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00048/retis-velvet-glove-wore-too-thin-for-pms-iron-fist.htm">Reti’s Velvet Glove Wore Too Thin For PM’s Iron Fist</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 31 January 2025, 2:11 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ian_Powell">Ian Powell</a></p> <p>Ian Powell discusses the sacking of Shane Reti as health minister and the appointment of Simeon Brown as his replacement. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00048/retis-velvet-glove-wore-too-thin-for-pms-iron-fist.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00047/dear-world-this-is-what-palestinian-unity-looks-like.htm">Dear World: This Is What Palestinian Unity Looks Like</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 31 January 2025, 1:58 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ramzy_Baroud">Ramzy Baroud</a></p> <p>By cultural revolution, I mean the defiant and rebellious narrative evolving in Gaza, where people see themselves as active participants in the popular resistance, not just mere victims of the Israeli war machine. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00047/dear-world-this-is-what-palestinian-unity-looks-like.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00046/funeral-atmospherics-at-the-british-library.htm">Funeral Atmospherics At The British Library</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 31 January 2025, 1:51 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>The exfiltration of data was also accompanied by an encryption of data and important operating systems, a devilish effort effectively shutting out staff and users from any engagement. Certain services were also destroyed to frustrate recovery efforts ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00046/funeral-atmospherics-at-the-british-library.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00045/dunnes-weekly-act-looks-backwards.htm">Dunne's Weekly: ACT Looks Backwards</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 31 January 2025, 10:34 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Peter_Dunne">Peter Dunne</a></p> <p>The focus on this new entity would be on the buildings and would exclude the delivery of health and education services and staffing so as not to compromise the continued public ownership of those services. It would be solely about managing public assets ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00045/dunnes-weekly-act-looks-backwards.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00044/history-is-not-a-game.htm">History Is Not A Game</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 31 January 2025, 9:13 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Martin_LeFevre_-_Meditations">Martin LeFevre - Meditations</a></p> <p>That conclusion manages to be both redundant and wrongheaded at the same time. A game indicates an eventual outcome, and there is no final outcome to human history, unless we drive our species into extinction, as Homo sapiens is driving half the ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00044/history-is-not-a-game.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00043/reckless-disregard-or-cruelty-or-even-trumpian.htm">Reckless Disregard Or Cruelty (Or Even Trumpian!)</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 30 January 2025, 6:26 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ian_Powell">Ian Powell</a></p> <p>Ian Powell discusses the sudden decision to remove the evidence based equitable age for Maori and Pacific eligibility for the national bowel screening programme. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00043/reckless-disregard-or-cruelty-or-even-trumpian.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00042/deepseek-and-chinas-inexorable-rise.htm">DeepSeek, And China’s Inexorable Rise</a></h3> <p class="release">Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 1:32 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Gordon_Campbell">Gordon Campbell</a></p> <p>The week’s big story has been about China’s DeepSeek low-cost AI model. Because DeepSeek requires fewer advanced chips, its advent has had a huge impact on the fortunes of US chip-making giant, Nvidia – which immediately lost $600 billion of its value. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00042/deepseek-and-chinas-inexorable-rise.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00041/the-transcendent-brain.htm">The Transcendent Brain</a></h3> <p class="release">Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 12:43 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Martin_LeFevre_-_Meditations">Martin LeFevre - Meditations</a></p> <p>After having been immersed in the childish rituals of the Catholic Church growing up, I became averse to rituals & belief systems by my middle teens. Therefore I had no interest in methods, systems & traditions of meditation, which are fabrications ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00041/the-transcendent-brain.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00040/frankfurt-airport-a-special-kind-of-loathing.htm">Frankfurt Airport: A Special Kind Of Loathing</a></h3> <p class="release">Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 8:41 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>The errors begin with a rather jaunty announcement by a cabin crew member that the flight from London is ahead of schedule. “You will have plenty of time to make your connecting flight. Take your boarding pass and head to the gate. That is all ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00040/frankfurt-airport-a-special-kind-of-loathing.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00039/gazas-unbreakable-resistance-a-historical-perspective-on-the-war-and-its-aftermath.htm">Gaza's Unbreakable Resistance: A Historical Perspective On The War And Its Aftermath</a></h3> <p class="release">Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 8:29 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ramzy_Baroud">Ramzy Baroud</a></p> <p>Gaza's history is one of both pain and pride. It stretches back to ancient civilizations and includes great resistance against invasion, such as the three-month siege by Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army in 332 BCE. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00039/gazas-unbreakable-resistance-a-historical-perspective-on-the-war-and-its-aftermath.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00038/on-the-governments-gaslighting-about-growth.htm">On The Government’s Gaslighting About Growth</a></h3> <p class="release">Monday, 27 January 2025, 10:46 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Gordon_Campbell">Gordon Campbell</a></p> <p>Trump and Luxon have in common a lack of any experience in how to kick-start economic growth, especially in the wake of a recession. Their real expertise lies in deal-making i.e. in the re-packaging of wealth that’s been created by others, and on selling ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00038/on-the-governments-gaslighting-about-growth.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00037/localism-is-a-dead-end-its-all-glocal-now.htm">Localism Is A Dead End; It’s All Glocal Now</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 24 January 2025, 3:29 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Martin_LeFevre_-_Meditations">Martin LeFevre - Meditations</a></p> <p>The cliché “local solutions for local problems” becomes nonsensical without awareness of the planetary crises facing all of human beings. By refusing to see and deal with things as a whole, localism exacerbates of the very problems it purports ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00037/localism-is-a-dead-end-its-all-glocal-now.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00036/gaza-ceasefire-at-last-how-israels-first-defeat-will-shape-the-countrys-future.htm">Gaza Ceasefire At Last: How Israel's 'First Defeat' Will Shape The Country's Future</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 23 January 2025, 4:14 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ramzy_Baroud">Ramzy Baroud</a></p> <p>Unlike previous military campaigns in Gaza—on a much smaller scale compared to the current genocidal war—there is no significant strand of Israeli society claiming victory. The familiar rhetoric of “mowing the lawn”, which Israel often uses ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00036/gaza-ceasefire-at-last-how-israels-first-defeat-will-shape-the-countrys-future.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00035/pity-the-poesy-mark-rutte-nato-and-spending-for-war.htm">Pity The Poesy: Mark Rutte, NATO And Spending For War</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 23 January 2025, 9:49 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>A chief function of NATO’s public relations efforts lies in justifying its own existence. Instead of dismantling or finding more peaceful pursuits at the end of the Cold War, it became the groomed emissary of US power in Europe, while never being ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00035/pity-the-poesy-mark-rutte-nato-and-spending-for-war.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00034/parliaments-annual-rituals-are-underway-again.htm">Parliament's Annual Rituals Are Underway Again</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 23 January 2025, 8:39 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Peter_Dunne">Peter Dunne</a></p> <p>When Parliament resumes next week, the first item of business will be the presentation of the Prime Minister’s Statement, which is supposed to set out the broad thrust of the government’s legislative plans for the year ahead. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00034/parliaments-annual-rituals-are-underway-again.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00033/gutting-specialised-health-teams-follows-slash-and-burn-strategy.htm">Gutting Specialised Health Teams Follows ‘slash And Burn’ Strategy</a></h3> <p class="release">Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 3:23 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ian_Powell">Ian Powell</a></p> <p>Ian Powell discusses Health New Zealand’s plan to disestablish expert national health teams as part of its Commissioner’s ‘slash and burn’ strategy. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00033/gutting-specialised-health-teams-follows-slash-and-burn-strategy.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00032/on-the-looming-conflicts-within-the-trump-presidency.htm">On The Looming Conflicts Within The Trump Presidency</a></h3> <p class="release">Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 10:46 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Gordon_Campbell">Gordon Campbell</a></p> <p>How long is it going to take for the MAGA faithful to realise that those titans of Big Tech and venture capital sitting up close to Donald Trump this week are not their allies, but The Enemy? After all, the MAGA crowd are the angry victims left behind ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00032/on-the-looming-conflicts-within-the-trump-presidency.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00031/the-wasted-interregnums-of-obama-and-biden.htm">The Wasted Interregnums Of Obama And Biden</a></h3> <p class="release">Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 10:26 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Martin_LeFevre_-_Meditations">Martin LeFevre - Meditations</a></p> <p>Since neither Obama nor Biden was capable of speaking from the clarity, insight and passion required for meeting the psycho-spiritual crisis in the USA, both interregnums were wasted. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00031/the-wasted-interregnums-of-obama-and-biden.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00030/justifying-the-egregious-john-howard-and-spying-on-east-timor.htm">Justifying The Egregious: John Howard And Spying On East Timor</a></h3> <p class="release">Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 8:53 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>The best assessment offered of this episode in Australian history comes from Galbraith: both Howard and his foreign minister, had shown themselves to be mere “shills for the corporations”. This amoral approach towards a country in dire need undercut ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00030/justifying-the-egregious-john-howard-and-spying-on-east-timor.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00029/friend-or-foe-how-trumps-threats-against-free-riding-allies-could-backfire.htm">Friend Or Foe? How Trump’s Threats Against ‘Free-Riding’ Allies Could Backfire</a></h3> <p class="release">Tuesday, 21 January 2025, 7:14 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/The_Conversation">The Conversation</a></p> <p>Donald Trump wants US allies to spend more on defence and has threatened NATO members with coercion. But allies have agency too, and are already planning their responses. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00029/friend-or-foe-how-trumps-threats-against-free-riding-allies-could-backfire.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00028/the-fight-for-dignity-reshaping-gazas-post-war-narrative.htm">The Fight For Dignity: Reshaping Gaza’s Post-War Narrative</a></h3> <p class="release">Tuesday, 21 January 2025, 10:52 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ramzy_Baroud">Ramzy Baroud</a></p> <p>The latest Israeli war on Gaza was not ordinary, but then, no previous wars have been anything but destructive and lethal. For Israel, it was a genocide—a war aimed at exterminating Gaza's population through mass killings and driving the survivors ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00028/the-fight-for-dignity-reshaping-gazas-post-war-narrative.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00027/on-the-rise-of-simeon-brown.htm">On The Rise Of Simeon Brown</a></h3> <p class="release">Monday, 20 January 2025, 11:33 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Gordon_Campbell">Gordon Campbell</a></p> <p>Replacing Shane Reti with Simeon Brown as the new Minister of Health is a signal that the gloves are coming off in this crucial portfolio. Alarmingly, PM Christopher Luxon even used the term “ruthless execution” to describe how Brown will be carrying ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00027/on-the-rise-of-simeon-brown.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00026/good-does-not-fight-evil-but-stands-firm-and-dispels-it.htm">Good Does Not Fight Evil, But Stands Firm And Dispels It</a></h3> <p class="release">Monday, 20 January 2025, 10:26 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Martin_LeFevre_-_Meditations">Martin LeFevre - Meditations</a></p> <p>The die is cast where Trump, the United States and the post-World War II order are concerned. The failure of insight and imagination by academic, media and political elites, exemplified in the moronic “good Trump, bad Trump” fantasy, feeds the ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00026/good-does-not-fight-evil-but-stands-firm-and-dispels-it.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00025/bitter-harvests-the-gaza-ceasefire.htm">Bitter Harvests: The Gaza Ceasefire</a></h3> <p class="release">Sunday, 19 January 2025, 6:38 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>Whoever claims credit for these latest developments hardly lessens the bitterness of the harvest. The prevarications, delays and obstructions have permitted massive destruction and loss of life to take place. Cowardice and bad faith have been the ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00025/bitter-harvests-the-gaza-ceasefire.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00024/situation-critical-unrwa-and-its-continued-operations.htm">Situation Critical: UNRWA And Its Continued Operations</a></h3> <p class="release">Saturday, 18 January 2025, 6:10 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>Any ceasefire, already soured by the killing of over 100 Palestinians since its announcement, does little to address the institutional chasm that will be left were UNRWA to cease operating in any meaningful way. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00024/situation-critical-unrwa-and-its-continued-operations.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00023/waiting-for-trump-how-bad-will-it-be.htm">Waiting For Trump: How Bad Will It Be?</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 17 January 2025, 10:37 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Martin_LeFevre_-_Meditations">Martin LeFevre - Meditations</a></p> <p>There aren’t two America’s anymore than there are two political parties. There’s just one, and it’s Trump’s America. He will do his worst. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00023/waiting-for-trump-how-bad-will-it-be.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00022/the-gaza-genocide-the-fall-of-israels-immunity.htm">The Gaza Genocide: The Fall Of Israel’s Immunity</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 16 January 2025, 3:46 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ramzy_Baroud">Ramzy Baroud</a></p> <p>Numbers, though helpful, are rarely enough to convey collective pain. Using a new data-collecting method called ‘capture–recapture analysis’, the report indicates that by the first nine months of the war, between October 2023 and June 2024, 64,260 ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00022/the-gaza-genocide-the-fall-of-israels-immunity.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00021/on-more-threats-to-democracy-from-david-seymour.htm">On More Threats To Democracy From David Seymour</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 16 January 2025, 11:55 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Gordon_Campbell">Gordon Campbell</a></p> <p>Early reports indicate that a temporary Israel/Hamas ceasefire deal is due to take effect on Sunday. And the Regulatory Standards Bill is another vehicle for constitutional change that’s being launched under the guise of sensible, garden-variety law-making. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00021/on-more-threats-to-democracy-from-david-seymour.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00020/when-politics-gets-in-the-pocket-of-the-gun-lobby.htm">When Politics Gets In The Pocket Of The Gun Lobby</a></h3> <p class="release">Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 4:19 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ian_Powell">Ian Powell</a></p> <p> Ian Powell discusses when a government gets in the pocket of the gun lobby. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00020/when-politics-gets-in-the-pocket-of-the-gun-lobby.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00019/the-darkest-hour-before-dawn-or-the-sum-of-all-dark-ages.htm">The Darkest Hour Before Dawn Or The Sum Of All Dark Ages?</a></h3> <p class="release">Tuesday, 14 January 2025, 10:27 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Martin_LeFevre_-_Meditations">Martin LeFevre - Meditations</a></p> <p>Given the global ecological, psycho-spiritual, economic and political crisis of humankind, is there a latent exaptation that can be released which will enable us to meet the present climacteric? Yes, the universal capacity for flashes and states of insight. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00019/the-darkest-hour-before-dawn-or-the-sum-of-all-dark-ages.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00018/aukus-flawed-and-sinking.htm">AUKUS: Flawed And Sinking</a></h3> <p class="release">Monday, 13 January 2025, 1:24 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>Announced in September 2021 as “an enhanced trilateral security partnership”, AUKUS has hobbled and stuttered its way into 2025. Commentary from the pompom holders for war at such outlets as The Economist continue with such mild remarks as “ambitious ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00018/aukus-flawed-and-sinking.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00017/on-the-history-of-doo-wop-music.htm">On The History Of Doo Wop Music</a></h3> <p class="release">Monday, 13 January 2025, 11:01 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Gordon_Campbell">Gordon Campbell</a></p> <p>The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00017/on-the-history-of-doo-wop-music.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00016/israel-destroyed-gaza-for-generations-to-come-and-the-world-stayed-silent.htm">Israel Destroyed Gaza ‘For Generations To Come’ And The World Stayed Silent</a></h3> <p class="release">Monday, 13 January 2025, 8:58 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ramzy_Baroud">Ramzy Baroud</a></p> <p>The worst-case scenario has actualized in a way that even the most pessimistic estimates by Palestinian, Arab, or international groups could not have foreseen. Not only is Gaza now beyond "uninhabitable", but, according to Greenpeace, it will be "uninhabitable ... <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00016/israel-destroyed-gaza-for-generations-to-come-and-the-world-stayed-silent.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00015/detained-without-charge-eleven-yemenis-leave-guantanamo.htm">Detained Without Charge: Eleven Yemenis Leave Guantánamo</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 10 January 2025, 3:40 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>They are reminders about what the German jurist and Nazi enthusiast Carl Schmitt called a state of exception, a rather sinister way of saying that states, and leaders, can behave abominably if their position enables them to do so. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00015/detained-without-charge-eleven-yemenis-leave-guantanamo.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00014/the-war-criminal-victim-netanyahus-inevitable-fate.htm">The War Criminal 'Victim': Netanyahu’s Inevitable Fate</a></h3> <p class="release">Friday, 10 January 2025, 9:43 am | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Ramzy_Baroud">Ramzy Baroud</a></p> <p>Netanyahu understands this well and seems to have concluded that his only path to political survival is the continuation of the Gaza war and the expansion of the conflict to engage multiple parties. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00014/the-war-criminal-victim-netanyahus-inevitable-fate.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00013/from-symbolic-consciousness-to-insight-consciousness.htm">From Symbolic Consciousness To Insight Consciousness</a></h3> <p class="release">Thursday, 9 January 2025, 2:37 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Martin_LeFevre_-_Meditations">Martin LeFevre - Meditations</a></p> <p>No computer, however complex it may become in a simulacrum of sentience, will ever be able to approach the state of silence and insight, and communion with death and love that is the birthright of the human being. <a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00013/from-symbolic-consciousness-to-insight-consciousness.htm">More >></a></p> </div> <div class="article-sections"> <h3><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00012/arresting-and-killing-greenies-targeting-climate-change-protests.htm">Arresting And Killing Greenies: Targeting Climate Change Protests</a></h3> <p class="release">Wednesday, 8 January 2025, 3:52 pm | <a href="https://info.scoop.co.nz/Binoy_Kampmark">Binoy Kampmark</a></p> <p>In wealthier states, the climate change protester may be safer, but hardly immune from state violence. 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