BFD | 13 Dec 2021 Sometimes in life we find ourselves at a moral crossroads. On the path of our development as a nation that point has now arrived for New Zealand. No one should think that the failure of our governmental system, which has just happened, will not impact their life and that of…
RT | 5 Feb 2016 A UN panel has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been ‘arbitrarily detained’ in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, calling upon the UK and Sweden to end Assange’s deprivation of liberty. “The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) … considered that Mr. Julian Assange was arbitrarily detained by the…
RT | 30 Sept 2015 Two years after the controversial appointment of Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s leading human rights offenders, to the UN human rights council, Wikileaks cables have revealed a “secret deal” suggesting that the British government was a key player behind Riyadh’s nomination. Some of the 61,000 files from the Saudi…
Global Research | June 30, 2015 Previous articles discussed Israel’s seizure of the Swedish vessel Marianne Ship to Gaza carrying humanitarian aid despite Israel’s hollow denial. Israel wants Gazans trapped indefinitely in the world’s largest open-air prison deprived of essentials for well-being – suffocated under a policy of slow-motion genocide. Israeli commandos lawlessly seized the…
Webster G. Tarpley | 16 June 2015 The fraud of Magna Carta 2015: the often-suppressed paragraph 61 gave twenty-five feudal barons the right to wage civil war against the crown, thus sanctioning endless private warfare, the greatest scourge of Europe before the coming of the modern state Inclined to believe that the Magna Carta was…
New Eastern Outlook | 20 June 2015 The Bangkok Post has recently featured an AFP report titled, “Suu Kyi dodges Rohingya issue again,” which claims: In rare comments on Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged caution on granting citizenship to minorities, saying the sensitive issue must be addressed “very, very…
NZ Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice | 29 May 2015 When fluoride was added to the water supplies of two Taranaki towns not everyone was happy. The District Council had relied on powers in the Local Government Act 2002 and the Public Health Act 1956. But the plaintiff – an advocacy group –…
NZ Herald | 3 May 2015 The sound of sanctimonious tut-tutting rose to a roar last week, almost drowning out the sighs of relief as people everywhere woke to the realisation The Bachelor was nearly over. Much of the muttering was inspired by the sight of Saudi Arabian royalty sitting down for some quality face…
RT | 23 Feb 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51UseTj-nR8?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] WATCH IN FULL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkbXn… Afshin Rattansi goes underground on the recent Israeli attack on Gaza. Norman Finkelstein, author of ‘Method and Madness – The hidden story of Israel’s assaults on Gaza’, says the Goldstone report was ‘devastating’ in its conclusion that Israel was trying to punish and humiliate…
Informed Comment | 17 March 2015 Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, under extreme pressure over the real possibility that he will lose the March 17 elections, has made a powerful appeal to his far right wing constituency by openly admitting that he will never allow a Palestinian state and that he intends to flood Israeli…