Analysis

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 Benjamin Netanyahu’s threats after the...

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...

Twyford condemns weak action by NZ over Israel’s ‘ruthless’ apartheid

Asia Pacific Report Labour MP for Te Atatu Phil Twyford criticised the New Zealand government today for failing to...

Eugene Doyle: Team Genocide and the West’s war on Iran

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle I have visited Iran twice. Once in June 1980 to witness an unprecedented event: the...

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...

A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook

ANALYSIS: By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the...

Amid decline in mainstream media trust, Pacific Journalism Review remains a beacon

Professor Vijay Naidu’s speech celebrating the launch of the 30th anniversary edition of Pacific Journalism Review at the Pacific International Media Conference in Suva,...

PANG talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues

PANG Media The PANG media team at this month’s Pacific International Media Conference in Fiji caught up with independent journalist, author and educator Dr David...

Elevation, colour – and the American flag. Here’s what makes Evan Vucci’s Trump photograph so powerful

ANALYSIS: By Sara Oscar The attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania was captured by several photographers who were standing at the...

When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and political hypocrisy share the same Pacific arena

By David Robie for Pacific Media Watch Many platitudes about media freedom and democracy laced last week’s Pacific International Media Conference in the Fijian capital...

A surprising litmus test for Kanaky New Caledonia’s independence parties

ANALYSIS: By Denise Fisher The voters in the second round of France’s national elections last weekend staved off an expected shift to the far-right. But...