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February 23, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Lynley Tulloch There is a dangerous anger on rapid boil at the protest in Wellington. It is a stew of dispossession and unrest alongside various delusional beliefs and violent threats. Two weeks into the protest and the police have had to endure human waste and acid thrown at them; a car driven into ... <a title="Lynley Tulloch: The irony of the Parliament protest: Peace and love – and ‘executions’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/lynley-tulloch-the-irony-of-the-parliament-protest-peace-and-love-and-executions/" aria-label="Read more about Lynley Tulloch: The irony of the Parliament protest: Peace and love – and ‘executions’">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2022
RNZ News “Go home and take your children” — that was New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s plea to protesters remaining at Parliament today. Despite being trespassed from Parliament grounds a week ago, protesters remain on the Parliament lawn and show no sign of leaving in spite of a new record 981 community covid-19 cases ... <a title="NZ parliament covid protesters ‘not interested in engaging’, says Ardern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/16/nz-parliament-covid-protesters-not-interested-in-engaging-says-ardern/" aria-label="Read more about NZ parliament covid protesters ‘not interested in engaging’, says Ardern">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala PART 1: Divide and rule with Māori and Pacific communities White Supremacy (WS) has proliferated during covid-19 lockdowns in Aotearoa from 17 August 2021. Supremacist activism, aspirations, attitudes, behaviours, beliefs, concepts, ideas, languages, media output, organising praxes, political slogans, political thought, and political party policies have all flourished as people protested ... <a title="How to make sense of white supremacy and settler colonialism for flax roots people in Aotearoa – Part 1" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/24/how-to-make-sense-of-white-supremacy-and-settler-colonialism-for-flax-roots-people-in-aotearoa-part-1/" aria-label="Read more about How to make sense of white supremacy and settler colonialism for flax roots people in Aotearoa – Part 1">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2021
Political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss: how it is now over one year since United States voters went to the polls and elected Joe Biden as president - or perhaps it’s fair to say, voted Donald Trump out of the White House. What are the big issues that have challenged the Joe Biden Administration? What are his wins and losses? Why the Biden-Xi US-China summit was a win; and how Trumpism (both domestically and as a cultural export) is an enduring challenge.
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November 17, 2021
A View from Afar - In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will discuss: how it is now over one year since United States voters went to the polls and elected Joe Biden as president - or perhaps it’s fair to say, voted Donald Trump out of the White House.
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October 30, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Selwyn Manning in Auckland The dilemma facing whistleblowers, journalists and publishers who risk it all to help the world’s people to become more informed. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finds himself crushed between these two counterbalances — the asserted right of powerful nations to operate in secret, and the right of the press ... <a title="Assumptions vs facts – how the Julian Assange case confronts our biases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/30/assumptions-vs-facts-how-the-julian-assange-case-confronts-our-biases/" aria-label="Read more about Assumptions vs facts – how the Julian Assange case confronts our biases">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT by Selwyn Manning. This week, on October 27 to 28 Julian Assange appeared before a United Kingdom court defending himself against an appeal that, if successful, would see him extradited to the United States of America to face a raft of indictments that ultimately could see him spend the rest of his life ... <a title="SPECIAL REPORT: Assumptions Vs Facts – How the Assange Case Confronts Our Biases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/29/special-report-assumptions-vs-facts-how-the-assange-case-confronts-us-all/" aria-label="Read more about SPECIAL REPORT: Assumptions Vs Facts – How the Assange Case Confronts Our Biases">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Patricio Zamorano From Washington, DC “That is not who we are,” insists the U.S. political class after the grave events of January 6 when a mob of Trump supporters brutally invaded the Capitol here in Washington, DC, leading to the loss of five lives. An entire nation, ... <a title="Made in the USA: Tutelage Democracy Feeds Its Own Insurrection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/made-in-the-usa-tutelage-democracy-feeds-its-own-insurrection/" aria-label="Read more about Made in the USA: Tutelage Democracy Feeds Its Own Insurrection">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, University of Melbourne Terrorism, political extremism, Donald Trump, social media and the phenomenon of “cancel culture” are confronting journalists with a range of agonising free-speech dilemmas to which there are no easy answers. Do they allow a president of the United States to use their platforms to falsely and provocatively claim ... <a title="To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in a world of division, violence and extremism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/22/to-publish-or-not-to-publish-the-medias-free-speech-dilemmas-in-a-world-of-division-violence-and-extremism/" aria-label="Read more about To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in a world of division, violence and extremism">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Jennifer S. Hunt, Australian National University Every four years on January 20, the US exercises a key tenant of democratic government: the peaceful transfer of power. This year, the scene looks a bit different. If the last US presidential inauguration in 2017 debuted the phrase “alternative facts”, the 2021 inauguration represents their deadly ... <a title="As Joe Biden becomes president, US still reels from deadly consequences of ‘alternative facts’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/20/as-joe-biden-becomes-president-us-still-reels-from-deadly-consequences-of-alternative-facts/" aria-label="Read more about As Joe Biden becomes president, US still reels from deadly consequences of ‘alternative facts’">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Markus Wagner, University of Wollongong President Donald Trump is extremely unlikely to capitulate to pressure to resign in the final days of his presidency. And his Cabinet is equally unlikely to force him out by invoking the 25th amendment of the Constitution, despite calls from the Democrats to do so. So, in the ... <a title="Impeaching Trump a second time is a complex and politically risky act" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/12/impeaching-trump-a-second-time-is-a-complex-and-politically-risky-act/" aria-label="Read more about Impeaching Trump a second time is a complex and politically risky act">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2021
By RNZ Pacific The governors of Pacific US territories the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and Guam have denounced the violent protests in US Congress. In a statement, CNMI’s Governor Ralph Torres said he was disappointed and saddened to see the nation’s senators and representatives threatened and law enforcement officials overwhelmed by this unprecedented act ... <a title="Pacific US territory leaders denounce the storming of Capitol Hill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/10/pacific-us-territory-leaders-denounce-the-storming-of-capitol-hill/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific US territory leaders denounce the storming of Capitol Hill">Read more</a>
