No Right Turn

In April 2011, Invercargill police apprehended a suspected burglar. During the arrest, one officer crash-tackled the suspect while he was al...

Sinister efforts to minimise Japanese war crimes and portray the empire as a victim must be exposed The 1915 Armenian genocide: Finding a f...

Some foreign inbreds are apparently visiting, which naturally means we have former politicians on TV telling us that a republic is inevitabl...

On his blog, SF author Charles Stross asks the big question about modern society: most jobs are bullshit , and many of them are disappearing...

Since 2012, refugees seeking asylum in Australia have instead been dumped on Nauru and Papua New Guinea in appalling and inhumane conditi...

Stuff reports that the Commerce Commission wants to fine a Swiss company $3 million for participating in a cartel : The Commerce Commissi...

The public boycott has a long and honourable tradition in the struggle to make the world a better place. A sugar boycott helped end the slav...

Last month, we learned that Judith Collins had taken time off a taxpayer-funded trip to China to endorse her husband's company - a comp...

The endless saga of John Tamihere and the Waipareira Trust gets dodgier : An urban Maori authority that gets most of its funding from the p...

What a surprise! The Australian government is planning to cover-up the results of its investigation of the murder at their Pacific gulag : ...

One of the core allegations of the NSALeaks is that the NSA has been unconstitutionally spying on Americans on a massive scale. And now, the...

Saudi Arabia is a medieval despotism, with a medieval approach to human rights and freedom of religion. So its sadly unsurprising that they ...

A government is carrying out a crash-program of privatization without a mandate. It is desperate to sell, so it sets the price of the shares...

On Monday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Fifth Assessment Report , showing the world facing war, famine and deat...

Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Fifth Assessment Report , showing the world facing war, famine and dea...

Who'd have thunk it? The CIA lied about the effectiveness of its torture program : A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee conclu...

Because they murder people : Captured by a video camera on one of the officer’s helmets, the slaying by Albuquerque police of a homeless ca...

If a politician brings defamation proceedings against another politician , bringing himself into "public hatred, ridicule and contempt...

Last night, the International Court of Justice ruled that Japan's "scientific" whaling program was illegal : Activists are c...

The NSA's global panopticon hasn't caught any actual terrorists yet. But it does seem to be killing the cloud computing industry : ...