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2024-04-18 11:19
A new survey says that most New Zealanders think the country's political system is rigged in favour of the rich and powerful. IN CASE anyone has forgotten, New Zealand is o… Read More
2024-04-16 19:24
Do people really mistrust the mainstream media because of its 'left wing bias'? That's what Newstalk ZB's Heather du Plessis-Allan thinks. But what about her own conservative bias?NEWSTALK Z… Read More
2024-04-16 16:48
New Zealand's political class are directly implicated in failing to provide the country with a Fourth Estate that can hold politicians and the powerful to account, writes Bryce Edwards… Read More
2024-04-15 02:19
The US, Britain and France prevented a UN Security Council statement condemning the Israeli attack on the Iranian diplomatic facility in Syria. It led to the Iranian attack on Israel.TH… Read More
2024-04-12 10:29
In the face of the National-led coalition government's austerity agenda, where is the economic alternative, and where is the fightback? WHILE LABOUR is engaged in hand-to-hand battles with t… Read More
2024-04-10 03:59
A Christchurch meeting organised to show support for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has been attacked as support for terrorism by Zionist Juliet Moses. She continues to d… Read More
2024-04-08 03:42
The opinion polls are consistently saying that most Americans are not happy with the choices that they are being presented with for US president. A Reuters poll in January revealed that most… Read More
2024-04-03 21:56
Supporters of the National-coalition government have praised its economic philosophy. The editor of ZB Plus, Philip Crump. has admiringly described it as 'the CEO approach'. But as Green Par… Read More
2024-04-03 21:46
INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST Abby Martin debates Israeli propagandist and Zionist Emily Schrader on Piers Morgan Uncensored.'Israel needs to be held accountable and stopped immediately', says Ab… Read More
2024-03-28 23:04
Britain is more than likely to have a Labour Government within the next ten months.UK Labour's lurch to the right could well be seen by New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins as a vindicati… Read More
2024-03-24 04:01
It will be workers who will pay for the coalition government's ill-conceived tax cuts, even though a recent study has showed that the record profits of the corporate sector have been th… Read More
2024-03-21 06:47
In 2023, for the first time, global warming exceeded 1.5C for an entire year. Less than five years ago the consensus was, unless serious and fundamental action was taken, the world wou… Read More
2024-03-19 06:49
2024-03-19 06:37
Both Juliet Moses and David Cumin have been heavily involved in trying to smear Green Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick as anti-semitic. But neither Moses nor Cumin have had anything to say ab… Read More
2024-03-16 02:38
Six Palestinians were among those killed on March 15, 2019 in Christchurch. Although the Government might of marked the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed 51 people, it la… Read More
2024-03-15 03:34
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on two Christchurch mosques, which resulted in fifty-one deaths. Prime Minister Christopher Luxton has been joined in Christchurch… Read More
2024-03-13 07:16
Green Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick has been accused of being a 'revolutionary zealot'. But, in reality, she's been expressing the views of a revolutionary optimist.A CONSERVATIVE commenta… Read More
2024-03-11 02:32
HAVING JUST returned from nearly a month treating the wounded in Gaza, emergency physician Dr. Thaer Ahmad talks with Abby Martin about the abduction/torture of doctors and hospitals under… Read More
2024-03-07 23:27
Political commentator Chris Trotter has abandoned what remains of his social democratic politics and embraced the politics of the right.CHRIS TROTTER has packed up his ideological kitbag and… Read More
2024-03-06 03:50
The election of longtime socialist and activist George Galloway as the MP for Rochdale prompted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who was not elected to his position, to talk of 'extremists' try… Read More
2024-03-05 20:16
THE ORIGINAL goal of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), according to its first Secretary General, was 'to keep the Soviets out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.'To… Read More
2024-03-02 02:52
The New Zealand Government has branded the political wing of Hamas 'a terrorist organisation', but continues to accommodate itself to Israel's brutal genocidal war which has already cl… Read More
2024-02-28 08:52
The National-led coalition government has launched another attack on beneficiaries. The victims of neoliberalism have, apparently, 'obligations' to those who have benefited from the economic… Read More
2024-02-22 18:53
Announcing his retirement from parliamentary politics, former Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson said that 'he had been proud to serve.' But who, exactly, did he serv… Read More
2024-02-19 03:59
Political commentator Chris Trotter has endorsed the National-led coalition government. Last week, in his new conservative role as a defender of the status quo, he attacked Green MP Chloe Sw… Read More
2024-02-14 19:23
Sean Plunket and his on-line radio station The Platform want you to 'join the resistance.' But what exactly are they 'resisting'?WHILE SEAN PLUNKET might have Tuaranga rich listers Wayn… Read More
2024-02-12 01:03
According to TVNZ's Jack Tame, Chloe Swarbrick 'upset Jewish people' because she used a popular Palestinian rallying call. But the people complaining about the Green MP are the same people w… Read More
2024-02-09 03:57
ACCORDING TO YOUTUBE, posting a parody of Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu, breaches 'community standards'. The song and video were inspired by Benjamin Netanyahu's statement, 'Nobody will… Read More
2024-02-07 08:54
THANKS TO TRACY CHAPMAN performing 'Fast Car' with country singer Luke Coombs at the 2024 Grammy Awards, it looks like a whole new audience has been introduced to the music of the fifty-nin… Read More
2024-02-04 03:50
The election of Chloe Swarbrick as Green Party co-leader may signal the beginning of a political movement for change, no longer constrained by a centrist Labour Party.WHILE CHLOE SWARBRICK a… Read More
2024-02-04 02:45
IN EARLY January Tariq Habash, a senior U.S. Education Department official and a Biden appointee, resigned his position. He was the first government official of Palestinian origin, to resig… Read More
2024-02-01 23:13
Israel has deliberately targeted journalists in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, resulting in over 80 deaths. But, despite claiming to be a champion of free speech, the New Zealand Free Spee… Read More
2024-01-28 13:31
Now that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has decided that Israel has a genocide case to answer, will New Zealand politicians continue to claim that Israel is just defending itself?… Read More
2024-01-26 18:05
The International Court of Justice has agreed with South Africa that Israel has a genocide case to answer and ordered that the Israeli Government ensures that its military does not commit vi… Read More
2024-01-23 18:47
New Zealand could have allied itself with South Africa and its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Instead, the Government has chosen to ally itself with a Un… Read More
2024-01-23 04:55
The Step Aside Joe campaign says that Joe Biden's 'prospects for winning re-election appear to be bleak, even in the face of GOP extremism. With so much at stake, anointing him as the Democr… Read More
2024-01-17 23:57
The corporate media might have relentlessly pursued Golriz Ghahraman, but it paid scant attention to an address that Green MP Chloe Swarbrick made to Parliament in December. It has since bee… Read More
2024-01-17 09:20
Kate Halper, Rania Khalek and Abby Martin came together at The People's Forum in New York on January 16 to talk about Gaza, Yemen, the US presidential elections and more. They were joined… Read More
2024-01-14 05:13
ZB Plus has vigorously pursued the shoplifting allegations surrounding Green MP Golriz Ghahraman. But it's been silent about the Government's support for Israel's genocidal military campaign… Read More
2024-01-12 06:57
By supporting the American and British missile attacks on Yemen, the New Zealand Government is supporting the continued slaughter of innocent men, women and children in Gaza.WHILE THE New Ze… Read More
2024-01-09 19:40
In many countries, including New Zealand, Zionist-controlled organisations have embraced the genocidal military campaign being waged by Israel in Gaza. The very same supporters of Isra… Read More
2024-01-08 07:50
This week, Israel will be forced to appear before the International Court of Justice to answer charges that it is committing genocide in Gaza.ON 27 OCTOBER 2023 Israel launched i… Read More
2023-12-31 20:59
THE RENOWNED Australian journalist John Pilger died 30 December 2023. He was 84 years old. John Pilger chose early in his life where his political allegiances lie, and he became an u… Read More
2023-12-31 17:52
The Maoriland Worker, launched in 1910, was an important voice of the New Zealand labour movement. On January 7, 1920, it published a column that reflected on the new year ahead… Read More
2023-12-23 01:42
The genocide being committed in Gaza by the Israeli far right regime weighs heavily on many of us and will cast a shadow over the summer.AT THE beginning of 2023 I did not envisage tha… Read More
2023-12-21 19:30
WHY HAVE so many US celebrities, politicians, and influencers come out to strongly support Israel? The two word answer: the “Israel lobby.” But it’s much deeper than that… Read More
2023-12-18 07:05
The Biden administration has accused Donald Trump of echoing the words of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. But this is the same Biden administration that has embraced the far-right Zionist reg… Read More
2023-12-13 20:56
At least 87 journalists have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli military. Despite the fact that the intentional targeting of journalists is a war crime, the Free Speech Union (NZ) has remain… Read More
2023-12-09 22:56
SAUL WILLIAMS is a prominent figure in both American alternative hip-hop and slam (performance) poetry. He has performed with progressive hip-hop acts like KRS-One and The Roots and… Read More
2023-12-07 06:15
In March last year, a surveyed conducted for Three's The Hui revealed that Maori were concerned about much the same issues as Pakeha.The top concerns for Maori were the cost of living… Read More
2023-12-04 22:12
As Israel's brutal attack on Gaza has continued, the New Zealand media has regularly approached the New Zealand Jewish Council and the Israel Institute of New Zealand for comment, with… Read More
2023-12-01 02:04
Chloe Swarbrick has been given the job of Green Party spokesperson on adapting to climate change. But just a few months ago, in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, she was calling for 'radic… Read More
2023-11-28 19:15
According to former Labour Party staffer Lamia Imam, New Zealand did not vote for a right-wing government.IT WAS THE British socialist Perry Anderson who wrote that 'Defeat, is a hard e… Read More
2023-11-24 22:34
AMONG THE most attacked of Israel's critics, the bold Mia Khalifa joins Abby Martin to discuss her childhood under Israeli occupation, the Gaza genocide and the anti-Arab racism at the hear… Read More
2023-11-23 18:09
The Labour Party's centrist policies and politics have been identified as one of the principal reasons for its heavy election defeat. But what would a post-centrist Labour Party look like? C… Read More
2023-11-20 04:07
AMERICAN-PALESTINIAN Alana Hadid is a prominent fashion designer who co-founded the label La Detresse in 2017. Until this year she left the catwalk to her younger sisters, Gigi and Bella Ha… Read More
2023-11-18 22:50
A Talbot Mills poll this week has revealed that 60% of New Zealanders support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. But the incoming National-led Government is unlikely to heed the call. In the Un… Read More
2023-11-16 21:25
Whatever the final configuration of the new government, one thing is for certain - the interests of the one percent and our failed economic system will continue to be protected. IT HAS… Read More
2023-11-15 21:29
Both National leader Chris Luxon and Labour leader Chris Hipkins have so far refused to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. A new poll suggests that both leaders are not only out… Read More
2023-11-14 14:25
In the UK, Labour leader Keir Starmer is facing widespread dissent from within his own party over his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. In New Zealand, Labour leader Chris Hipkins can… Read More
2023-11-12 22:21
LEGENDARY PINK FLOYD musician Roger Waters joins Abby Martin and the Empire Files to discuss his longtime advocacy for Palestine and the crisis in Gaza. Keep Empire Files independent &… Read More
2023-11-07 23:56
Green MP Chloe Swarbrick is on the right side of history. But the same cannot be said for most of our politicians and their tame media courtesans. AT THE SAME time as it was announced by the… Read More
2023-11-06 08:31
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.' is a rallying call for the liberation of the Palestinian people. But some people are opposed to that.WHILE IN opposition ACT leader David… Read More
2023-11-03 02:22
The working class has been squeezed out of parliamentary politics.IN RECENT decades the New Zealand Parliament has become more representative of some of the historically neglected demog… Read More
2023-11-02 20:49
Zionism is driving Israel's barbaric military campaign in Gaza. Zionism has its followers and supporters in New Zealand.THE HARROWING images coming out of Gaza have driven many of us to tear… Read More
2023-10-30 19:22
During his thirty-six years in the Senate, Joe Biden was the chamber’s biggest ever recipient of donations from pro-Israeli groups. As President, he has embraced Israel's genocidal mil… Read More
2023-10-25 19:45
New Zealand, allying itself with the United States, has failed to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Unwilling to condemn Israel or call for a halt to its savage assault on the people of Gaza, Ne… Read More
2023-10-24 02:18
The lack of an actual government has become a convenient excuse for the leaders of New Zealand's two main parties to remain largely silent about Israel's genocidal rampage in Gaza. But both… Read More
2023-10-19 03:02
Israel has launched a disinformation campaign that claims it was not responsible for the attack on Al-Ahli Anglican Episcopal Hospital.IN HER immediate response to Israel's horrific attack o… Read More
2023-10-15 04:50
Despite the claims from our political elite and their cheerleaders that we live in a democracy, why do we still end up with governments that do little but defend the neoliberal status q… Read More
2023-10-12 19:38
According to recent figures from the Gaza Health Authority, at least 447 children and 248 women are among the estimated 1,417 people who have died, while more than 6,000 have been injured. Y… Read More
2023-10-10 02:30
We are supposed to be outraged that the Palestinian people have attacked the occupying power that is Israel. But, around the world, people are gathering in the streets to express their solid… Read More
2023-10-07 22:03
While Palestinian resistance is described as 'terrorism' by mainstream journalists like Newstalk ZB's Jason Walls, Israel's barbaric actions in Gaza are always described as a 'military opera… Read More
2023-10-05 02:59
New Zealand scientists have warned that Antarctica's sea ice is rapidly disappearing and have criticised New Zealand's inadequate climate change policies. But are our political parties lis… Read More
2023-09-29 05:20
New Zealand no longer has a credible left-wing party, writes Chris Trotter.IN THE CURRENT MIX of electoral alternatives, there is no longer a credible left-wing party. Not when &l&hell…Read More
2023-09-27 07:05
Young New Zealanders were absent from TVNZ's 'Young Voters Debate'...THERE WAS an absence of young voters on TVNZ's 'Young Voters Debate' screened on Monday night. Instead, we were presented… Read More
2023-09-26 02:09
New Zealand's election campaign grinds on but none of the political parties seem eager to talk about Ukraine and their support for America's proxy war with Russia. And the corporate media do… Read More
2023-09-19 22:05
The hollowing out of our representative democracy means that political leaders like Chris Hipkins and Chris Luxon can only scrape together low levels of support from a civil society that has… Read More
2023-09-18 03:39
Australian real estate CEO Tim Gurner sparked outrage after calling for a rise in unemployment to put workers in their place. We should be grateful for his comments says Grace Blakeley, be… Read More
2023-09-17 05:06
After four decades of relentless neoliberalism that has benefited a few at the expense of the many, the public mood is for change. But that's not what's on offer from our present crop of par… Read More
2023-09-13 03:17
Climate change is the defining crisis of our age, but it does not even rate a mention on Labour's pledge card. Meanwhile, the National Party is pledging to make the country 'carbon neutral'… Read More
2023-09-04 19:58
With both Labour and National unable to command the support of little more than third of the electorate each, both parties are 'out of touch' with ordinary New Zealanders. FRANKIE GOES… Read More
2023-08-31 23:12
A new report says that it is rocketing corporate profits that are driving the cost of living crisis.WHILE THE Reserve Bank has engineered a recession to curb economic demand and suppres… Read More
2023-08-30 04:26
ACT leader David Seymour has been widely criticised for riding the coat tails of the late Nelson Mandela in an attempt to promote his party's conservative polices. Much less has been said ab… Read More
2023-08-23 03:51
After six years of defending the status quo, the Green Party now claims that it wants more than just 'small tinkering'. But this is nothing more than cynical posturing, designed to hoodwink… Read More
2023-08-18 02:18
As Labour heads for a certain election defeat, the liberal left has little to offer but its unfounded and irrational belief that Labour can still be a vehicle for progressive policies.THE CO… Read More
2023-08-14 16:59
''....although Labour thinks it has just announced a big and popular election policy that will help those struggling, for many it will serve to reinforce that Labour has spent six years in p… Read More
2023-08-12 03:49
Despite it being a major investor in the fossil fuels industry, the Labour Government has signed a deal with the world's biggest investment manager. But what will be good for BlackRock won't… Read More
2023-08-04 02:17
The Independent External Review of RNZ Editorial Processes has found no evidence of infiltration by Russian disinformation into RNZ's newsroom.This was the claim made by Sanjana Hattotuwa of… Read More
2023-07-31 22:04
The Labour Party has sunk to 26 percent support in the latest Roy Morgan poll. But the poll also shows that support for the two major parties has declined again to a combined 59.5 percent.&n&hell…Read More
2023-07-29 21:00
2023-07-28 11:18
Who will deliver the telling blow to Labour's centrism? Come on down, centrist David Parker. These are desperate days indeed.THESE ARE DESPERATE times. That desperation can be seen in the st… Read More
2023-07-28 11:16
Stephanie Rodgers is a list candidate for the Green Party. Although she says that 'only the Greens have the principles, the policies and the power to make the real changes we need to end pov… Read More
2023-07-20 21:24
The only people concerned about the general election are the politicians and the chattering class. Maybe that's because the rest of us know that whoever wins this election, nothing will chan… Read More
2023-07-18 07:55
People in the northern hemisphere are enduring suffocating and life-threatening heat while wildfires continue to rage in some countries. Our economic system, in its endless pursuit of profit… Read More
2023-07-14 20:47
The decision of Chris Hipkins to rule out both a wealth tax and a capital gains tax maintains the position of his predecessor. So why the outrage from the Labour left? Perhaps it's a way of… Read More
2023-07-14 04:40
Fran Drescher condemns corporate greed and tells big business that 'the jig is up'.FRAN DRESCHER, who many people will remember from the sitcom The Nanny, is President of the SAG-AFTRA Uni… Read More
2023-07-14 02:19
Retreating to cloudcuckooland, Green co-leader James Shaw says that the Green's will continue to campaign for a wealth tax - even if Labour has categorically ruled one out. Shaw's empty blus… Read More
2023-07-11 08:39
Labour has slumped in the latest Talbot Mills poll. Talbot Mills suggest that 'after a long period of very close results, we may now be seeing the long expected breakout of the centre-right… Read More
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