Jeremy Rose

Genoa Port Workers Block Passage Of Saudi Ship Carrying Weapons For Israel Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.

The history of worker resistance to fascism and genocides is a proud one and one that should be better known. (The history of elites doing the opposite is a shameful one that should also be better known.) www.marineinsight.com/shipping-new...

‘It’s finally time’: Haudenosaunee Women’s Lacrosse team makes statement on international stage - ICT News Pan American bronze medal adds boost to push for Haudenosaunee recognition for 2028 Olympics

Not often I post a sports story but this one mentions the world's oldest surviving democracy and one of its sports teams trying to get recognised by the Olympics. ictnews.org/news/its-fin...

Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti! — Solidarity The world’s most important hostage – must be released. The powerful Western countries have signalled that in the face of the genocide they may recognise the state of Palestine. States need leaders. Th...

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Noam Chomsky on New Zealand’s nuclear free policy (1989) Noam Chomsky in his MIT office in 1990.

After 36 years I finally got around to transcribing a Noam Chomsky interview. open.substack.com/pub/towardsd...

He's an effective troll if the aim is to simply garner reposts. Here's hoping revulsion at his psychopathic racism disgusts at least some of his listeners. (If he said something similar about an historic outbreak of anorexia among Jewish children in Nazi occupied Europe I suspect he would be toast.)

No problem at all but for Australians who want controlled immigrations it's seen as an unfair backdoor. If we increase our refugee quota, as we should, then a percentage of jump the ditch. Our loss, their gain in my opinion but that's not a view shared by all.

It's like spring water vs sugary fizz.

Alan Gibb's only instruction to his who's who of internationally renowned sculptors was make me the biggest sculpture you've ever made. Looks like Morgan gave the same instructions to a local workshop (the ideas are no doubt his.)

Luxon boasted in his maiden speech about Air NZ's proud climate change record. It turned out to be largely hot air and greenwash but not as bad as this government's appalling record in trashing the little that had been achieved by the overly cautious previous administration.

I stopped at a petrol station to the South of there. The speed limit was 50km/h and the owner complained to me that trucks regularly drove past at closer to 100Km/h and he'd never seen one pulled over. Things will only get worse. The coalition of death marches on.

Live: Kiwis warned to leave Israel, Netanyahu says attack on Iran stopped 'nuclear holocaust' Israel and Iran are both launching new waves of missiles, as US officials say Donald Trump vetoed a plan to kill Iran's Supreme Leader.

Why quote a notorious liar and wanted war criminal on a "nuclear holocaust" that no experts believe is credible but ignore an ongoing genocide (according to all major human rights groups, leading genocide scholars, and leading jurists)? www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Can't find a single article about Progressive International that promotes democratic socialism and was set up by Tsipris's finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Corbyn, Jean-Luck Melenchon and others.

New York Times op ed promotes the idea of international progressive movement quoting former Greek PM Alexis Tsipras saying there is a need for an international progressive movement that promotes “democratic capitalism”. No mention of Progressive International. archive.is/dr6mk#select...

David Cohen "outed" Nicky Hager as one of the "embarrassed rich" in an add-on to the NBR rich list. His evidence: Nicky lived in Roseneath. He'd obviously never walked up the 150 or so stairs to the self-built, house truck-like house.

Weird to find yourself agreeing with both Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Literally only one topic that I agree with both of them on; how truly fucked up the other one is.

Bogus charges of antisemitism are the new McCarthyism The word antisemitism has become so debased that depending on who is using it, I might well take it as a sign that the accused is worth listening to.

Pearls and Irritations have published my piece on the weaponising of antisemitism charges to shutdown criticism of Israel. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

Ruth Richardson’s state honour is a slap in the face for the poor The architect of 1991's 'mother of all budgets' did immense damage to the country’s most vulnerable.

If you calculated the chance of a knight or dame being convicted of a white collar or sex crime compared to the general population I reckon it would be higher for those given the country's highest "honour." @maxrashbrooke.bsky.social on Dame Ruth's crimes on the poor thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...

How much once you add in an appropriate methane tax and the true price of protecting our rivers and lakes?

I suspect he's too good to accept an invitation to that club with its very dodgy membership. I'm sure on average knights are more likely to be convicted of white collar crime and sexual crimes than the general population. It's a pretty startling roll call of shame. (Plenty of admirable people too.)

Dickhead, piss-head, former tobacco lobbyist, and National bore Chris Bishop put in his place by national treasure Don McGlashan.

Sooner the dePakehafication of Aotearoa's politics, education and constitution occurs the better. That doesn't mean a country with any fewer Pakeha it just means one where it's no longer the default and dominating world view.

Defence Minister Judith Collins endorses Trump's Golden Dome amid contract frenzy The chorus of defence contractors interested in working on the proposed missile defence system is growing, with New Zealand-founded company Rocket Lab in the running.

Judith Collins minister of space - or chief space cadet - sees a business opportunity. In her sci-fi fantasies NZ will finally get a real bite of the US 'defence' budget. She'll polish Trump's golden dome anytime. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Markets have no morals OPINION: In the 1980s, market-based solutions were all the rage. But markets are also myopic reckless and selfish.

Rod Carr, the economist behind the short-lived cash registers in hospitals policy, has had a change of heart about the market is alright right mantra. www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

Withdraw NZ from US operation supporting Israel’s war on Gaza What is this operation? The New Zealand Government has deployed New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel to support the US and UK-led Operation Prosperity Guardian. The Operation was launched in Dec...

If our war ships are being used for anything in this conflict it should be to deliver aid - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/en...

Mister Netanyahu have you no sense of decency? Hungarian PM Victor Orban, a peddler of antisemitic tropes, with his good friend Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

71 years ago Senator McCarthy overstepped the mark accusing military men of communism. The witch hunts were cancelled. Will Netanayu's accusation of a blood libel against an IDF general end the witch hunt against those falsely accused of antisemitism?
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They're an important part of the transition to a sustainable transport system but nanny state politicians (promoting ever bigger roads) stand in the way. (Labour did nothing to change the rules to allow the either.)

Meet the $7,000 mini EV that's taking Japan by storm It’s not a Toyota, Nissan, or a Honda, but this new mini EV is already a sensation. The mibot mini...

Where are the libertarians in this government when we need them? Micro-EVs are popular from China to Europe but banned from our roads. electrek.co/2025/05/29/7...

No doubt the job insecurity created by the hype will help undermine collective bargaining and further erode wages and conditions?

The price of butter is, I suspect, far too cheap. No price on methane, no price on our polluted rivers, or the cost of heart attacks to the public health system. Time to plant olive trees, I reckon.

Four generations of my family have enjoyed that pool. I've got a picture of my mum and her cousin newly arrived refugees swimming there in the 1940s. One hundred years of building community. Beautiful. Makes me feel rich.