No Right Turn

Power Crisis More power crisis headlines in the papers yesterday, with dire warnings of power-cuts and brownouts. And of course, more c...

Hell in a handbasket The US occupation of Iraq is getting very dirty very quickly. Firstly, they've started arresting their politica...

Bloody Belgians A Belgian lawyer is apparantly preparing to prosecute General Tommy Franks in a Begian court for war crimes . The US is...

"Life and physical integrity have no supremacy over economic interests" Those are the words of an Argentinian judge evicting w...

New Fisk Did the US murder these journalists? The Independent has started trying to charge a Pound an article for Fisk, so we'l...

Clutching at straws Bill English is again accusing Helen Clark of upsetting the US , this time over remarks that she made at the Europea...

Review: Perfect Copy I read this book a few weeks ago, and I've been meaning to blog about it ever since. Perfect Copy: Unravelling ...

Baghdad blast Some clever person fired flares into an ammunition dump in Baghdad, setting off a chain of explosions which demolished fou...

I hate yuppie-restaurants ... especially those that don't do bookings and make you wait for over an hour before being seated, in order t...

North Korea watch Talks between North Korea and the US don't seem to be going well. The US wants North Korea to dismantle its nucle...

Population target? United Future's Peter Dunne thinks that NZ needs five million people by 2015 . All I can say is why ? Does Dun...

Just when you thought the Bush administration had reached rock bottom Its bad enough that America has seen fit to deny more than 600 ...

John Pilger Article John Pilger is actually pretty good when he isn't throwing his toys out of the cot , and he is certainly much be...

US to punish France Colin Powell has said that the US will be reviewing all aspects of its relations with France, and that there will be...

NZ to play part in Iraq mine clearing The shooting has stopped, they're under the UN (rather than US) flag, and they're not goin...

US corporate lobbying, on a global scale A consortium of large US corporations is attempting to monster the World Health Organisation o...

ICC elects first prosecutor The International Criminal Court has elected an Argentine human rights lawyer as its first prosecutor. Ap...

I'm not dead... ...I'm just moving from Palmerston North to Wellington, and adapting to a nine-to-five suit job with limited web...

SARS Watch There's a particularly good series of SARS updates on The Agonist . Scary fact: the mortality rate (proportion of those ...

Baghdad protesters denounce 'occupation' Speaks for itself really. Update:, More here .