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If, just yesterday, you suggested the riots in Iran were not organic protests, you would have been accused of supporting tyranny. I should know because I was, and yet Israeli media is now dmitting to Israel’s role in the violence. Israel’s Channel 14 is reporting that Israel has been arming the rioters who have been carrying shotguns and pistols and throwing firebombs. Channel 14’s coverage is pro-Netanyahu so this story is likely to have…

What should have been a straightforward yes-or-no question instead turned into a revealing display of ideological evasion on Wednesday, when Josh Hawley pressed an OB-GYN testifying before Congress to answer whether men can get pregnant. MXM Exclusive · The witness, Nisha Verma, repeatedly declined to answer directly, despite presenting herself as a voice of science during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing …

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado presented President Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal during a private White House meeting Thursday, a dramatic and deeply symbolic gesture she framed as coming from the Venezuelan people themselves. MXM Exclusive · Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill after the meeting, Machado said she handed Trump the medal during a visit that included a private lunch, describing the moment as an…

The proliferation of genetic technologies is not containable. Genetic sequences are globally mobile, they can integrate with host organisms and spread without any practical possibility of limiting their extent. The approval of self replicating mRNA vaccines, the replacement of common food ingredients and processing aids with genetically modified types and the thousands of insecure biolabs doing exotic gene research, including on deadly…

RT: Dutch Starmer critic barred from UK Eva Vlaardingerbroek delivers a speech during the first “Remigration Summit” at Teatro Condominio in Gallarate, Italy, May 17, 2025. © Getty Images / Emanuele Cremaschi · Dutch political commentator and activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek (Vlaar) has been banned from entering the UK after criticizing Prime Minister Keir Starmer for neglecting migrant crime. · Vlaar, with over 2 million followers on X and…

It was hailed as ‘a game changer for the clean tech sector’ and a model for the world; less than three years later, BlackRock is walking away from its NZ climate fund by Sam Sachdeva - Caption: BlackRock says "client feedback" and a new acquisition has led to it shutting down a dedicated climate investment fund in New Zealand. File photo: Getty Images · American multinational asset manager BlackRock is closing down a $2 billion climate…

Early announcement of the date has been customary since 2011, initially to provide certainty around the Rugby World Cup and later adopted as standard practice. Summarised by Centrist · Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has indicated he intends to follow the practice by announcing the election date early in the year. · Under electoral law, the current 54th Parliament expires on November 9, 2026, unless dissolved earlier. The last possible day an…

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has criticised Reserve Bank Governor Anna Breman for publicly backing US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell while he is subject to a criminal investigation in the United States. Summarised by Centrist · Peters said the Reserve Bank of New Zealand is “statutorily independent” of government on monetary policy, but that independence does not extend to commenting on US domestic politics. · “We remind the…

After six columns dissecting the MisManageMyHealth debacle, the diagnosis is clear. Decades of privatisation built a fragile system, leaving our health IT infrastructure splintered and under-resourced. A near-monopoly concentrated the risk, handing 1.8 million New Zealanders’ records to a one-man private empire. The watchdogs were ignored and muzzled: successive Privacy Commissioners’ warnings went unheeded, and regulators were kept toothless…

The US president believes his Russian counterpart is ready to make a deal, unlike the Ukrainian leader · RT: FILE PHOTO ©  Joe Raedle / Getty Images · US President Donald Trump has singled out Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky as the main obstacle to a peace agreement to end the conflict with Russia, in an Oval Office interview with Reuters. · Trump has repeatedly expressed frustration that his attempts to…