New Zealand’s new military industry strategy aligns with Washington’s ambition to bolster the US ‘industrial resilience’ with allies and partners in the Asia-Pacific region as part of its provocative China-containment policy.
New Zealand’s research for the NRO suggests that the country is moving beyond shared signals intelligence infrastructure towards collecting, sharing and analysing satellite imagery for the US military.
In support of its most powerful like-minded partner, New Zealand has long hidden behind propaganda exercises feigning grave concern for Palestinians while Israel’s assault continues.
Emerging out of postwar state- and church-run institutions, early gangs were a social and cultural response to shocking abuse perpetrated predominantly upon Māori and Pacific Islander children.
Clearly, the government ... needed a new paradigm, one that placed Māori research under its control and oriented it towards its own policy goals, disguised albeit as in the ‘interests of the nation as a whole’.
...we might consider how, with unerring though likely unwitting proficiency, the report essentially acts as an endorsement of Countering Violent Extremism…
From frontier wars and Indigenous genocides to the global war on terror to mass shootings of synagogues and mosques, extra-legal and exceptionalist violence abounds where whiteness is structured in narratives of its own decline and even reversal.
