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Dirty Deals Done In The Dark:   There will be times when it is to the considerable advantage of both National and Labour to be able to shrug...

Mistaken Identity: TV3 journalist Paddy Gower went looking for hate as if it was a criminal that could be brought to justice. He talked abo...

Who's In Charge? That it was left to the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, to lead the charge against the rise in protectionism across...

Progressive Populism: Barack Obama's promise of collective empowerment was crucial to his 2008 election victory. On 4 December he s...

Russia Eclipses America: Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, seized the initiative over Syria by turning a throwaway comment f...

"We, The People": Unburdened by the compromising calculations of re-election, President Barack Obama, in his second inaugural ...

Call To Arms: "America's never been about what can be done for us. It's about what can be done by us together through the h...

Made To Order: Like the mythical monster, Procrustes, neoliberal economists are offended by the real world's inability to fit into t...

The Man Of The Moment: President Barack Obama's public affirmation of same-sex marriage, like LBJ's famous 1965 civil rights spe...

As American As Apple Pie: Political violence is the inevitable consequence of so many Americans' refusal to accept the social and econo...

Barack Obama: "The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor." IT was one of those throwaway lines that sets an alarm-b...

The 44th President of the United States of America - Barack Hussein Obama. IT was moving – how could it not be? To see an African-American ...