Reportedly, the aim is to create a $12 billion stockpile of rare earth minerals, although there is absolutely no transparency about how, when and to whom the US would allocate the contents of that ...

This new single “Dashboard Mary” from the London band Modern Woman builds and builds to a dissonant climax. Along the way, the video makes use of Stephen King horror-lite imagery to tell its ...

In a fluke example of career revival, the 2005 track “I’ll Believe In Anything” by Wolf Parade has just become a Very Big Thing all over again, thanks to its prominent use in Heated Rivalry, the smash ...

It is also why New Zealand continues to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while brushing aside Russia’s rationale for doing so. We didn’t let the Kremlin decide for itself. To state the obvious, ...

If the economy was an apartment building, the recovery would be the party that’s beginning to kick off in the penthouse flat, while everyone else […] ...

In the wake of Winston Peters lame response to the US attack on Venezuela, its almost enough to make one yearn for the good old days when Murray McCully was our Foreign Minister. Here’s the gist of ...

Decades ago, Alexander Cockburn wrote a column pointing out that the true believers in the power and precision of the defence industry’s latest weaponry tend to be (a) their gullible government ...

The spectacular improvements in reading achievement announced by Education Minister Erica Stanford on Monday were almost too good to be true – so it isn’t surprising that the figures justifying those ...

Reportedly, the on again, off again debate between Ruth Richardson and Nicola Willis may be on again. Fabolous. Nothing can help us better understand a wildly contentious issue than having someone ...

If something isn’t really broken, no wonder people feel suspicious when government promises to “fix” it to the potential benefit of corporate interests. In 2011, Parliament passed legislation that ...

In the past week, Israel has reverted to slaughtering civilians, starving children and welshing on the terms of the peace deal negotiated earlier this year. The IDF’s current offensive seems to be ...