Gordon Campbell

1 month ago | asiapacificreport.nz | Gordon Campbell

COMMENTARY: By Gordon CampbellSince last Thursday, intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed more than 500 Palestinians, and a prolonged Israeli aid blockade has led to widespread starvation among the territory’s two million residents. Belatedly, Israel is letting in a token amount of food aid that UN Under-Secretary Tom Fletcher has called a “a drop in the ocean”.

1 month ago | asiapacificreport.nz | Gordon Campbell

By Gordon CampbellThe calls by the Israel Institute of New Zealand for Peter Davis to resign from the Helen Clark Foundation because of comments he made with regard to an ugly, hateful piece of graffiti are absurd. The graffiti in question said “I hated Jews before it was cool!” On social media, Davis made this comment :“Netanyahu govt actions have isolated Israel from global south and the west, and have stoked anti-Semitism.

Dec 11, 2024 | wellington.scoop.co.nz | Gordon Campbell

by Gordon CampbellI wouldn’t have picked Nicola Willis to be a big AC/DC fan, but “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” must have been the theme song for her decision to cancel the iRex rail ferries project. As we learned today, she and Winston Peters, the newly-anointed Minister of Rail, have a plan to replace the iRex ferries that were due to arrive in 2026.

Nov 19, 2024 | wellington.scoop.co.nz | Gordon Campbell

by Gordon CampbellThe euphoria from yesterday’s hikoi may be transitory, but is no less valuable for that. It is pretty rare for the left to feel itself to be in the overwhelming majority, and speaking as the voice of the people. Lest that momentum be lost, the organisers will no doubt be mobilising the contacts they made yesterday, to carry the ongoing fight against this Bill to all parts of the country.

Oct 23, 2024 | wellington.scoop.co.nz | Gordon Campbell

by Gordon CampbellNational has never forgiven Wellington – or its public servants – for voting for Labour and the Greens. (Red-blooded Kiwis work in the private sector.) No surprise then to find a right-wing central government being willing to kick the Capital when it’s down. (See “Wellington is dying and we don’t know how to turn it around” – John Key, 2013.