Analysis

‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed over ignoring plea

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch “This is the last time you’ll see me… they brought me here to kill me.” These chilling words by detained and tortured Palestinian...

It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of ‘balance’

ANALYSIS: By Peter Greste One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists...

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

Mānawatia a Matariki! Flashback 41 years on: One year ago marking the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the...

‘If we don’t save Dr Abu Safiya, he’ll die in prison’ – released detainees on Gaza doctor

By Qassam Muaddi On June 10, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya appeared on a screen before Israel’s Supreme Court via...

The Gaza doctrine – Israeli ‘journacide’ and the muted NZ media response

COMMENTARY: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch A friend and colleague, Solidarity columnist Eugene Doyle, posed a brief question...

50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to Trump

Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series. COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle 30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...

The fall of Saigon 1975 – The Quiet Mutiny and US army falls apart

Part Two of the three-part Solidarity’s Vietnam War series: The folly of imperial war COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Vietnam is a lesson we should have...

The fall of Saigon 1975: Fifty years of repeating what was forgotten

Part one of a three-part Solidarity series: On the courage to remember COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The first demonstration I ever went on was at the...

Ben Bohane: Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door

ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates...

John Hobbs: Why NZ govt should back Greens’ sanctions bill on Israel over Gaza genocide

COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs In the absence of any measures taken by the New Zealand government to respond to the genocide being committed by Israel...

Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad daylight

EDITORIAL: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal US President Donald Trump and his team is pursuing a white man’s racist agenda that...