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The real question, the burning question each of us must answer is – given there is no middle ground, there is no fence to sit on when it comes to genocide – whose side are you on? And what are you going to do about it? Vive la Resistance. Vive the defenders of the Palestinian cause.
Why haven’t we changed in 45,000 years, and emerged from our self-made darkness? Why are we still projecting darkness the other, and making war, when, as the film concludes, “they aren’t things; they are just like us?”
When the politician pushing a controversial piece of legislation starts accusing his critics of “derangement syndrome” – as David Seymour has done this week – then any chance of a rational debate on the Regulatory Standards Bill has gone
Ian Powell discusses who benefits from the Government’s decision to outsource (privatise) cherry-picked planned surgery in New Zealand’s health system.
Thailand's struggle with democracy resulted in three very different prime ministers in three days with Phumtham Wechayachai becoming the newest caretaker leader last week, after a court suspended former Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra for alleged "ethical misconduct."
This madness needs to stop, and, since the UN is incapable of stopping it, then individual governments, civil society organizations, and ordinary people must do the job, because the lives of Palestinians should be of far greater value than corporate profits and greed.
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