No Right Turn

It looks like Spain isn't the only country suddenly investigating the CIA's torture plane . According to a roundup on Daily Kos , i...

Via Hard News : The Herald Premium Content Blog has been hit with a DMCA complaint and so has moved to LiveJournal . Which at least will ma...

The government's new, looser arrangements for Cabinet Collective Responsibility may face their first real test in Question Time today, w...

During the 80's and 90's. Treasury managed to earn itself a reputation as a bunch of rabid idealogues who were the driving force beh...

The 2006 NetGuide People's Choice Web Awards are now open for voting. And yes, there is a "best blog" category... You can v...

And so we return to where we began. Over a year ago, soldiers from the Oregon Army National Guard raided a compound in Baghdad run by the n...

Philippe Sands, international law expert and author of Lawless World , has a simple warning for members of the Bush Administration involved ...

As has been pointed out before, policy towards reducing our greenhouse gas emissions has to aim at basically two areas: cars and cows . Of t...

Anyone wanting to deny that the US used white phosphorus in Fallujah should check out this BBC report, where a Pentagon spokesperson flat ...

Spain has become the second country to investigate stopovers by the infamous "torture plane" in its territory. The investigation...

Over the past few days I've been watching the growing story of the US's use of white phosphorus in Fallujah last year . According t...

Twenty to thirty percent of our science graduates are leaving the country , according to a Waikato University marketing professor. But befo...

John Howard's industrial relations reforms have been greeted by the largest protests in Australian history . 175,000 marched in Melbour...

Kazhakstan is threatening to sue Borat for defamation . And accusing him of "serving someone's political order designed to present...

The Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill now looks set to pass its first reading - thanks to United Future . We can only hope they change ...

Nielsen//NetRatings have posted the traffic estimates for the top 10 media sites according to their market intelligence service. There...

So far, my experiment with using pledgebank to mobilise lobbying on the Marriage (Gender Clarification) Amendment Bill is going well: thre...

In his oft-quoted Rotorua speech on September 7th, Winston Peters disclaimed any interest in the perks and baubles of office. He then turn...

While researching Parihaka , one of the things that caught my eye (in addition to the acts of attainder and effective suspension of the rule...

So, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (established under the International Convention on the Elimination of All F...