Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival, America’s Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival, America’s Quest for Global Dominance, Allen and Unwin
Reviewed by Nicky Hager
Author: Nicky Hager
In the line of fire
The role New Zealand soldiers are playing in Iraq is not the one the government has sold to the country… (This feature was the first expose of New Zealand military activities in Iraq.)
Coming a cropper, why Helen Clark has only herself to blame
Helen Clark has tried again to present herself as the victim in the contaminated corn crop issue. But, this time, she is partly correct….
Power firm’s shock ally
Nicky Hager reveals a controversial American company behind the South Island’s proposed Project Aqua scheme….
Meridian Energy and public relations
It is not surprising if you haven’t heard of Project Aqua. It is the largest power scheme planned in New Zealand since the Clyde Dam 20 years ago and already it is controversial in the local area around Oamaru. But a lot of state resources are going into trying to silence the opponents and avoid the inconvenience of genuine public debate….
In defence it’s not size that matters
The latest ‘debate’ about defence consists of the usual moans about the military being dangerously underfunded and ill-equipped…. but this says more about the feeble standard of debate than any reality concerning our military forces….
“Surveillance: technological change, foreign pressures and over-reaction to terrorist threats”, An address to the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s 2003 Privacy Issues Forum
New Zealand is going through a period of serious degradation of civil liberties. Some expansion of surveillance may be justified but most is occurring without any objective necessity, driven by technological change, foreign pressures and over- reaction to terrorist threats.
Spies like us
A recent story in Britain’s Observer newspaper revealed that US intelligence agencies have been spying intensely on UN Security Council members as the US worked to secure backing for the war in Iraq. You might imagine that New Zealand would disapprove of these high level dirty tricks…
Preface to Japanese edition of Secret Power
I am writing this preface as the United States begins its invasion of Iraq in March 2003. It is a disturbing time to be thinking about the role of intelligence operations in world politics and what it means for those of us who live in countries within the US intelligence alliance. During a war, […]
Our secret war
THE war in Afghanistan was fought by intelligence analysts sitting at computers and special force commandos roving in mountains and lowlands…. (This feature was the first expose of New Zealand military activities in Afghanistan and surrounding countries in 2001-2003, activities which until then had mostly remained secret.)