Born in 1966. Organiser for GATT Watchdog, who were once dubbed "grumpy geriatric communists who tuck their shirts into their underpants."
Some strange strange people inhabit this land The earth lives in fear of their uranium mines They kill every livin’ sea thing…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) in adopting a policy of governance in October 1995, claims to be the first international financial institution…
I keep seeing books, articles and correspondence which refer to a Ć¢€Åpost-colonial worldĆ¢€Ā. Which world is that? Hand me a telescope. It…
Many of us liken the situation of Palestine to that of Bantustans in apartheid South Africa. Israeli journalist Danny Rubinstein and others…
It’s that time of year again. The winner of the Roger Award for the worst transnational corporation operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in…
“I regard this as one of the most disturbing practices I’ve come across”, Australia’s Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs,…
I don’t know if he still uses it, but as a Member of Parliament in New Zealand, before being inflicted on the…
One cannot help wondering how much of the agenda of the critiques of the new economic order is set by those setting…
What does a boy with a name like Abdul Aziz do these days to travel without being hassled by the authorities? Try…
Now that weĆ¢€ā¢re all supposed to be Americans as the fight against Ć¢€Åthe evil onesĆ¢€Ā expands, a recent incident has reminded me…
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