Month: February 2007
Adoption or Fostering-Which is Best For Kids?
The New Zealand fostering system is grossly overloaded. There are three main reasons for this; Firstly, most foster kids come from the “underclass“. The “underclass”…
Correction Re Adoption Policy
A few days ago I posted on the subject of adoption. This a subject I have some experience with as my wife and I have…
China and South Africa Form Strategic Alliance
Back in the the ’70s and ’80s many members of the NZ Socialist Unity Party trained at Lenin’s Institute for Higher Learning (aka the Institite…
Back to the Bad Old Days
From the Moscow Times Thinking of jetting up to St. Petersburg for a week to see White Nights this summer? If you’re a foreigner and…
Tauni Sinclair, New Wave Radical
The new generation of Maori activists are almost all university educated, media savvy and well travelled. Most are anti-capitalist and have connections to the revolutionary…
Iran Sends Message to US
From Islamic Republic News Agency Missile units of the air and naval forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) will begin a specialized wargame…
"National Question" 16 Learning Lessons in Cuba
While Maori radical group Nga Tamatoa, worked with the Trotskyist, , it also had close ties to the pro-Soviet, Socialist Unity Party. Every few years,…
Iranian General Captured by Palestinians
From Israel National News Hat Tip Once Upon a Time in the West The Iranian general captured by Palestinian Authority security forces in a raid…
Nyquist on the "Destruction of the United States"
US writer, Jeff Nyquist, is one of the best (and scariest) geo-political commentators around. He is a realist, in a world where evasion and euphemism…
Damn’ Straight Greg
Canterbury University Sociologist Greg Newbold in today’s Sunday Star Times. New Zealand’s high imprisonment rate-second only to the United States-was high only because of high…
Maria Bargh- Academic, Maori Activist, Anti Free Trader
Dr Maria Bargh, is a Maori Studies lecturer at Victoria University, Wellington. She is one of a generation of Maori activists, pushing hard for “Tino…
Old Allies Re-Uniting-Against Who?
Much of Western defence strategy s based on the increasingly false premise that Russia and China are rivals and can be played off against each…
Russia Ready to Counter NATO Expansion
Whether we acknowledge it or not, the “Cold War” is back. From La Prensa Latina Moscow, Feb 2 Chief of the Russian Air Force, Army…
"National Question" 15 The Socialist Action League
While Nga Tamatoa and the Maoists were organising the Maori Land March, the Trotskyists of the Socialist Action League were busily building bridges to the…
Teanau Tuiono and Tino Rangatiratanga
Teanau Tuiono and his group Te Tino Toa, have created a media stir over their threat to raise the “Maori flag” on Auckland Harbour Bridge…
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