Featuring the podcast of our weekly Hoon live webinar, plus five things that mattered this week, including the latest big climate, transport, housing and political news in Aotearoa, and in geopolitics
Insightful analysis from Peter Bale, the Hoons answer to Robert Fisk, on the Ansar Allah solidarity with the people of Gaza. Journalist opinion par excellence. I sympathise with Bernard that they travel about in Hilux’s, and am frustrated that they aren’t more environmentally aware in their resistance, but at least they aren’t Ford Rangers.
Robert Putman so good ..' failure of international institutions'. Without a strong voice from NZ we are complicit with the harm that is visited on Palestinians. See
On the comments in the Hoon about an investigation into reports of an Israeli tank shelling a house with Israeli civilians in it on October 7 - the second part of this article from Electronic Intifada is a translation of an article in the second largest circulating newspaper in Israel giving a timeline of events on the morning of October 7. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-hq-ordered-troops-shoot-israeli-captives-7-october
Insightful analysis from Peter Bale, the Hoons answer to Robert Fisk, on the Ansar Allah solidarity with the people of Gaza. Journalist opinion par excellence. I sympathise with Bernard that they travel about in Hilux’s, and am frustrated that they aren’t more environmentally aware in their resistance, but at least they aren’t Ford Rangers.
My grandfather was a stationary engine driver at Chelsea Sugar Works when he was young. (I'm 75)
Robert Putman so good ..' failure of international institutions'. Without a strong voice from NZ we are complicit with the harm that is visited on Palestinians. See
Ilan Pappe https://www.palestinechronicle.com/icj-ruling-is-not-good-enough-and-this-is-the-way-forward-ilan-pappe/
On the comments in the Hoon about an investigation into reports of an Israeli tank shelling a house with Israeli civilians in it on October 7 - the second part of this article from Electronic Intifada is a translation of an article in the second largest circulating newspaper in Israel giving a timeline of events on the morning of October 7. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-hq-ordered-troops-shoot-israeli-captives-7-october