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Eugene Doyle

Pearls and Irritations

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Declare your city genocide-free: Lessons from New Zealand’s nuclear-free movement

Declare your city genocide-free: Lessons from New Zealand’s nuclear-free movement
29.03.2025 8

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EU welcomes its first dictatorship

EU welcomes its first dictatorship
17.03.2025 10

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Keir Starmer’s psychiatrist report leaked

11.03.2025 10

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Ukraine deal: Beware of Americans bearing gifts

04.03.2025 6

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Human sacrifice: remembering Aaron Bushnell

02.03.2025 10

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Yellow Peril! Red Peril! ‘We cannot hide anymore’. Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea

28.02.2025 9

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Back to Russia with love – détente is a win for everyone

23.02.2025 20

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Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China?

21.02.2025 4

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Trump and foolish old men who redraw maps

12.02.2025 7

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Is Romania’s stolen election what’s in store for ‘democracy’ in the West?

09.02.2025 5

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Niger, stolen billions and the uranium-fuelled lights of Paris

05.02.2025 10

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“All I wanted was to bid my daughter a final farewell.” Hostages and the mainstream media

28.01.2025 10

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Reality hits home: “Ukraine is running out of Ukrainians,” says US Secretary of State

24.01.2025 6

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Marwan Barghouti – the world’s most important hostage – must be released

21.01.2025 9

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Trump's global dreams revive US's 'big stick' ideas

14.01.2025 20

The New Daily

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Trump is cutting the last threads of the tattered cloth of ‘the rules-based international order’

12.01.2025 8

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The rule of the Oligarchs and Machines is here

Ordinary humanity faces an emerging threat from the combined might of the Human Elites (billionaires and the military-political class) working with...

07.01.2025 7

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Best of 2024: The Ukraine war is lost. Three options remain

George Beebe, long-time head of Russia analysis at the CIA, a 27-year veteran of the agency and now the current head of Grand Strategy at the...

03.01.2025 4

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Christ wasn’t born in a stable so that Palestinians could be born in tents

I just attended a wonderful Christmas concert at St Mary of the Angels in Wellington – the Bach Choir, the Chiesa Ensemble and excellent soloists...

23.12.2024 3

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Killing Russian general won’t stop reality crashing in on Ukraine

States don’t tend to kill each other’s generals, not least because it invites reciprocal action. The bombing in Moscow this week, killing General...

19.12.2024 3

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The dismemberment of Syria is a crime

What we are witnessing is not just the end of a regime but quite possibly the destruction of the Syrian state. We are being told by the Western...

14.12.2024 3

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The demon in the mirror

Incoming US President Donald Trump will force us, as citizens of the ‘West’, to face the demon in the mirror.  They “will be hit harder than...

06.12.2024 3

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In the death throes of Ukraine’s lost war, we witness the birth of WWIII

In the space of a couple of days this week two completely unprecedented attacks occurred that have the potential to rewrite world history. The US...

25.11.2024 4

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Defying settler colonialism

Far from the killing grounds of Gaza, an incredible display of defiance to settler colonialism has broken out in, of all places, New Zealand. The...

21.11.2024 3

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BBC goes full Goebbels in support of Israeli soccer hooligans

“IDF will fuck the Arabs!”, “Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there!” Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans chanting on 8...

11.11.2024 2

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The axis of genocide

The West, “will stand by the Israeli regime until they exterminate the last Palestinian”, says Mohammad Seyed Marandi, an American-Iranian...

07.11.2024 2

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The Ukraine war is lost. Three options remain

George Beebe, long-time head of Russia analysis at the CIA, a 27-year veteran of the agency and now the current head of Grand Strategy at the...

31.10.2024 2

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To Jews and Christians of faith: you can’t sit out a genocide

This week I read an article in Al Jazeera describing the killing in one day of hundreds of Palestinian civilians. The same day I read a piece in...

29.10.2024 2

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US is spending $28 billion on Sinophobic propaganda to colonise your brain

Whoever owns the narrative owns the world – and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to the metastasising brain cancer known as US...

21.10.2024 2

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Yahya Sinwar – history will judge the living and the dead

The political and military leader of Hamas is dead. Some cheer. Some weep. History will judge the living and the dead. I wish Ismail Haniyeh and...

20.10.2024 1

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Driving VW off a cliff: Germany’s lemming strategy and what it means for us

Something absolutely stupefying is happening in Germany: its iconic auto company, VW, the darling of every Chancellor from Adolf Hitler to Olaf...

19.09.2024 2

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The US made the Dutch an offer they couldn’t refuse

Hold on to your mobile phones, civilians, this is gonna get rough. If you thought the Sopranos and Corleones were intimidating, check this out....

07.09.2024 2

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Gaza happened because we forgot Korea

History didn’t start on 7 October. True that. To get a deeper sense of why the shocking destruction in Gaza is happening, we have to revive the...

05.09.2024 2

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Exiting Pax Americana could save our bacon 

Ordinary New Zealanders and Australians have little idea about the momentous changes coming our way. For a couple of centuries we have been...

24.08.2024 3

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Iran is about to attack Israel

Iran may be about to launch a proper missile strike on Israel for the first time ever – in retaliation for the attack on Tehran last month which...

12.08.2024 3

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Team genocide walks out on Nagasaki commemorations

In an astonishing “Fuck you” to the survivors of the 1945 US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, several Western countries including the US, Australia,...

08.08.2024 2

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Rape and genocide: the Israeli war machine we support

The headline above is outrageous and incendiary – it is also unquestionably true. We have a duty to bear witness to what the Palestinians must...

06.08.2024 2

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As Eurasia awakes our world will shake

“Tectonic shifts are underway in global politics, economy, and other spheres of international relations. A fairer multipolar world order is being...

01.08.2024 1

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It’s bigger than NATO and it’s heading our way

Australia and New Zealand’s populations must now wake up to the fact that our countries have been drawn into what ForeignPolicy.com called the...

21.07.2024 20

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