Tag: Peace and Conflict

The redeployment of the SAS to Afghanistan will again put New Zealand troops in the midst of the 'War on Terror'. Everyone from Amnesty to the UN has been having a go over the mistreatment of prisoners. How clean are New Zealand's hands on this issue?

 You are warmly invited to attend a: PUBLIC MEETING

KEITH LOCKE says the planned $445 million upgrade of the Air Force's Orions is at odds with the country's new defence thinking.

KEITH LOCKE* says good elements of the Government's defence assessment are undermined by the ignoring of air combat issues.

Tibet Freedom Torch Relay arrives in Wellington. 

In Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore shows how George W Bush's "War on Terror" is also a war on the civil liberties of Americans.But it's not just "over there" that long-cherished freedoms are being taken away.

Pressure is on the Government to give the green light to a $445 million electronic upgrade for the Air Force Orions.

Asia and Pacific members of the Greens are committed to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the peaceful resolution of the nuclear problem.

The Government has sent SAS troops back to Afghanistan, to a war commentators frequently describe as ‘unwinnable’.  Opinion polls in countries that are actively engaged in the war – such as Australia, Britain and Canada – show a majority in favour of withdrawing combat troops.  Going into Afghanistan now in a combat role is akin to deciding to send troops to Vietnam in late 1974.