Atlas Monitor | 12 May 2016 It was recently announced that media companies operating in New Zealand; APN News & Media and Fairfax Media, would “divest” from their NZ operations effectively separating the NZ branches of the organizations from their parent companies. APN, the parent company of NZME includes the NZ Herald and Newstalk ZB;…
Atlas Monitor | 9 May 2016 Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key has refused to front up to his scheduled Monday morning interview with Radio NZ National’s Morning Report to answer questions about the latest “Panama Papers” document dump that mentions New Zealand more than 61,000 times fueling speculation that NZ is a “tax…
Atlas Monitor | 8 May 2016 The thought of Donald Trump in the Whitehouse with his neo-isolationist foreign policy and anti-establishment stance frightens the living hell out of the American power elite. The “Eastern establishment foreign policy elite” who often occupy tenured positions at Ivy League universities such as Harvard, Yale, Colombia and Princeton are…
Atlas Monitor | 8 May 2016 Are The Ottoman Empire’s Borders Relevant Today? This is the question posed by Stratfor founder George Friedman in one of his recent Geopolitical Futures email newsletters. Comparing the Ottomans’ organisation of the Empire, into various administrative regions in acknowledgement of deep cultural and religious differences that existed, with the…
Atlas Monitor | 2 May 2016 Radio host Polly Gillespie has delivered a timely yet misinformed and gloriously ignorant rant about the benefits of the flu vaccine that is demonstrably as well as admittedly flawed. Writing in the New Zealand Herald Gillespie shamelessly exploited the tragic death of her sister to promote the debunked (to…
Atlas Monitor | 18 April 2016 When the Necessary Is Impossible was the title for a recent article by New York Times op-ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman. It exposes Friedman’s gloriously Homer Simpson-like understanding of the problems plaguing Iraq at the moment. Of course he knows better than the article lets on. Friedman is many…
Atlas Monitor | 18 April 2016 A recent article entitled Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems by none other than The Guardian columnist and social justice warrior George Mombiot regurgitates a well-worn polemic on the failures of the neoliberal model of political economy. I agree that neoliberalism is undoubtedly a…
Atlas Monitor | 16 April 2016 The “closed” 11 April meeting between President Obama, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and Vice-president Joe Biden was in contravention of national security protocols according to Clinton insider Larry Nichols . Nichols says that these three are prohibited from being in the same room together away from the Capitol’s…
Atlas Monitor | 14 April 2016 The medical profession has become the lapdog of the pharmaceutical industry which defines disease as a market place from which massive profits are generated. This is according to a new nine part online documentary series by film maker Ty Bollinger. The documentary, The truth about cancer: a global quest,…
Atlas Monitor | 4 April 2016 I was prompted to respond to my third party online sparring partner, an American called Jeff, after he responded to an email from a buddy of mine whom I’ve never met which was forwarded to me to see if I had a view. Jeff was celebrating American drone strikes…