Last Straw

Free-market ideo­logy is dead, and none too soon: The pat­tern is clear: gov­ern­ments that respond to a crisis cre­ated by free-market ideo­logy with an accel­er­a­tion of that same dis­cred­ited agenda will not sur­vive to tell the tale. I just hope the same can be said for New Zealand.

An inter­na­tional boy­cott against Israel, not unlike that against Apartheid South Africa, finally looks to be gain­ing trac­tion. Naomi Klein has made a good case as to why is long past time and reports in Israeli media indic­ate that, since Israel’s recent mas­sacre of 1300 Palestini­ans, the boy­cott is start­ing to have an effect. If […]