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A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries
The old lie: Dulce et decorum est /Pro patria mori (It is a sweet and fitting thing to die for one’s country”) – Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est“ Yes, it seems fitting that I am writing these words on November 11, Veterans Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day in Commonwealth countries, a day […]
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We Don’t Want Our Islands to Be Used to Kill People
Ōriwa Tahupōtiki Haddon (Ngāti Ruanui), Reconstruction of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, c. 1940. For the past few weeks I have been on the road in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia at the invitation of groups such as Te Kuaka, Red Ant, and the Communist Party of Australia. Both countries were shaped by […]