Analysis

Top 30 NZ news media you should follow this election and the Top 5 you should ignore – The Daily Blog

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor and publisher of The Daily Blog This New Zealand general election on November 7 has an enormous amount at stake. If this hard-right coalition government gets...

NZ left parties condemn Luxon govt on lack of humanity, ‘complicity’ over Gaza genocide

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Four opposition party spokespeople today condemned the New Zealand coalition government’s...

Never again for anyone: Why the NZ Holocaust Centre shouldn’t be involved in developing a new curriculum

Rick Sahar, a former board member of the New Zealand Holocaust Centre, soldier in the IDF, and son...

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Some years ago when I headed the Pacific Media Centre...

Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza? It’s the media

ANALYSIS: By Robin Andersen In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific...

Eugene Doyle: How centrifugal forces have been unleashed in Iran

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The surprise US-Israeli attack on Iran is literally and figuratively designed to unleash centrifugal forces in the Islamic Republic. Two nuclear powers...

Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you cannot assassinate your way to peace

ANALYSIS: By Matt Fitzpatrick In the late 1960s, the prevailing opinion among Israeli Shin Bet intelligence officers was that the key to defeating the Palestinian...

Is genocide the new normal? Could Israel and the US destroy Iran?

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Just do it, before it is too late,” US President Donald Trump said. The Western media described Trump’s and Israeli Prime Minister...

Caitlin Johnstone: We are, of course, being lied to about Iran

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Iran and Israel are at war, with the US already intimately involved and likely to become more so. Which of course...

Jonathan Cook: Greta Thunberg tried to shame Western leaders – and found they have no shame

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook in Middle East Eye If you imagined Western politicians and media were finally showing signs of waking up to Israel’s genocide...

Chris Hedges: The last days of Gaza

The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilisation, writes Chris Hedges. ANALYSIS: By Chris...