Three years after the failure of Lehmann Brothers, the international financial crisis that "continues to dominate our lives" is looking no closer to resolution, according to Spanish daily El País.

The Madrid paper’s analysis of the financial crisis summarises what’s happened over the course of a story that’s "cinematographic" in its scale.

"Background: the massive Asian industrialisatio

No Right Turn smacks down Vote for Change's PR agency.

Pure Advantage is committed to a greener and more prosperous future for all New Zealanders and to developing practical opportunities to make that vision a reality.

Today we’re launching an exciting competition, with a very unique prize, aimed at inspiring young New Zealanders to think about what green growth means to them and how to spread the message to others.

In February of 2012 Robert S

Islamophobic parties in Europe have established a tight network, stretching from Italy to Finland. But recently, they have extended their feelers to Israeli conservatives, enjoying a warm reception from members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.

It has taken me more than 30 years as a journalist to ask myself this question, but this week I find that I must: is the Left right after all? You see, one of the great arguments of the Left is that what the Right calls “the free market” is actually a set-up.

The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom th

At last, one of New Zealand’s major parties has embraced the kind of tax on capital gains common in every other developed country on the planet marks a turning point in the country’s economic history.

The lack of a capital gains tax has been a vastly inefficient hole in our policy framework in that it allows ( or even encourages) investment money to be sucked into housing speculation and other

New Zealand has joined in the throng of condemnation that has erupted around the contentious "3 strikes" laws that have been examined in a UN report on the issue. Sweden released a statement that condemned the "3 strike" rules that deprive alleged copyright infringer's of access to the internet as a violation of human rights that was in turn signed by 40 other countries including New Zealand. Whi

Palestinian activists are looking to the Arab Spring to bring new energy and methods to their own struggle against Zionism.

Generations of Palestinian refugees living in squalid camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan have been paying close attention as their fellow Arabs have risen up against corrupt and oppressive leaders, as have those living in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.

The top 0.1% made out like bandits, more than doubling their average real incomes. Everyone else, not so much (and in fact, if you look at ordinary people, we got screwed). These are policies of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. And National wants to re-impose them if it gets a second term.

New Zealand’s government debt is actually third or fourth lowest in the OECD. Where we do have a serious problem is in private debt with mortages and business loans.

By permitting Britain and the Netherlands to blackball Iceland to pay for the mistakes of Gordon Brown and his Dutch counterparts, Europe has made Icelandic membership conditional upon imposing financial austerity and poverty on the population – all to pay money that legally it does not owe...

Financial power is to achieve what military conquest had done in times past. Pretending to make subje

Britain's poorest areas will be left behind by David Cameron's Big Society, a major report will warn tomorrow, as two polls show that the public are increasingly confused by the concept.

The Prime Minister will try to revive his faltering mission to boost social action and community volunteering next week – on the eve of President Obama's visit to Britain – by highlighting success stories that

An attempt to untangle the connections between foreign or external debt, household debt and government debt.

Kelvyn Alp is no stranger to Maori issues having used a Maori passport issued by “The Maori Government of Aotearoa” twice in 2001 to enter the Solomon Islands. The then Labour Government, quick to bring an end to the facilitation of the passport, is said to have threatened to pull much needed aid from the Solomon Islands.

Kelvyn is also set to target what he called the fiasco surrounding the i

On 1 November 2008 the New Zealand government radically changed course on its long-standing fiscal strategy and its avoidance of overseas borrowing, setting aside in the process any constitutional checks and balances on giving public subsidies to foreign capital, all in the middle of the weekend before the General Election, and with minimal public disclosure and no effective public debate.