Against The Current

 Joe Biden's disastrous support for Israel's genocidal war in Gaza has already lost him electoral support. He can't afford to be dogged with persistent questions about his age and cognitive abilities. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stei...

 2023 was the hottest year on record, but we're still not doing enough to fight climate change. Michael Roberts writes that our present economic system is dragging the planet over the cliff. In 2023, it was the first time in recorded history tha...

Despite the best efforts of the right-wing media, Christopher Luxon and his National-led coalition government remain unpopular.DESPITE THE best efforts of the right-wing media to talk up the National-led coalition government, it remains stubbornly un...

Fault Lines is Al Jazeera English’s Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary program.Fault Lines worked with journalists in Gaza over the course of several months to follow three Palestinian families as they recount horrific experiences they en...

Although she failed to bring about the fundamental economic and political change that she promised for New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern has been named the leader of a new project designed to 'challenge and change' the status quo.LABOUR'S VICTORY in 2017 w...

This week, Labour leader Chris Hipkins has suggested that a future Labour Government would not necessarily restore the climate change policies that the present coalition government is busy overturning.GIVEN THE widespread concern there is about clima...

The job of Climate Change Minister Simon Watts is to peddle the fiction that his government is taking climate change seriously. But he's been called out by young activists from School Strike 4 Climate.IN THE six months since it took office, the Natio...