No Right Turn

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is to be prosecuted again - this time for statutory rape : The Milan chief prosecutor said a reque...

Today was nomination day for the Botany by-election, and ten candidates are standing (the Greens apparently missed out after being stuck in...

Last week, John Key made a play for the wife-beater vote by sitting down with Tony Veitch for a blokey conversation about who he'd like...

Former US President George Bush is a war criminal. In office he authorised the use of torture, in violation of US and international law. A...

Last week, Campbell Live did a followup piece on the people of McGehan Close, who John Key had used as a propaganda prop in 2007 to soften ...

US envoy's business link to Egypt

The government has announced a miserly increase in the minimum wage , from $12.75 to $13 an hour. While any increase is better than nothing...

Yesterday at Waitangi the Greens launched a petition campaign to oppose the government's plans to asset strip the country and sell our...

Poor Peter Dunne. Acknowledging our real history makes him feel bad about being a New Zealander . So he wants to erase it, and replace it w...

The wrong Mubarak quits. Soon the right one will go

One of the worst features of modern free trade agreements are investment clauses. First emerging in NAFTA, these allow foreign companies to ...

Exhausted, scared and trapped, protesters put forward plan for future

Overnight, UK Prime Minister David Cameron gave a speech in which he claimed that multiculturalism had failed in the UK , and pushed for lib...

John Key's response to yesterday's bad unemployment numbers ? Excuses. "Unemployment's a lagging indicator", "D...

Want to show your support for the people of Egypt? You can do it on Saturday, at a rally in Aotea Square : When: 14:00, Saturday 5 Februa...

'Mubarak will go tomorrow,' they cried as rocks and firebombs flew

Last night, Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak made a startling admission : Mubarak told America's ABC News tonight: "I am fed up. Af...

Back in 2006 police abuse of their databases was highlighted when a police officer related to one of the police rapists accessed data on his...

Blood and fear in Cairo's streets as Mubarak's men crack down on protests

Over on Red Alert, Labour's Carmel Sepuloni has an appalling story of how some workers on the government's Pacific seasonal employm...