Analysis

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 on the Facebook media page Kiwi Journalists Association last week. “Kiwi journalists...

The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for Israel

ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean It is a peculiar kind of defeat — one dressed in the language of victory....

David Robie: Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific

PROFILE: By Mong Palatino Global Voices has interviewed veteran Aotearoa New Zealand writer and educator David Robie who discussed...

Saige England: We need to write about wrongs, read about wrongs – and be active about those wrongs

COMMENTARY: By Saige England Being passive must come after being passionate and active. Some know this. Some don't. So many people...

‘You’re a liar!’ NZ foreign minister Peters insults Gaza flotilla torture survivor in Parliament

SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle Something significant and revelatory just happened in the New Zealand Parliament. I was present...

‘Rogue’ states US and Israel have nothing to gain from their war on the UN

ANALYSIS: By Mohamad Elmasry It’s ironic that the United States and its closest ally, Israel, a state born out of the horrors of the Second...

US elections: Editorial writers at LA Times, Washington Post resign after billionaire owners block Kamala Harris endorsements

Democracy Now! This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I am Amy Goodman, with Juan González: The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post...

Two of the US’s biggest newspapers have refused to endorse a presidential candidate. This is how democracy dies

ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller In February 2017, as Donald Trump took office, The Washington Post adopted the first slogan in its 140-year history: “Democracy Dies...

RSF tackles Taiwan’s media freedom ‘Achilles heel’, boosts Asia Pacific monitoring action

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie in Taipei It was a heady week for the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) — celebration...

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel continues its war on journalism

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone An Israeli airstrike destroyed the press office of the Lebanese news broadcaster Al Mayadeen on Wednesday night, continuing Israel’s historically unprecedented...

How the US became blind to Israeli terror

ANALYSIS: By Derek Leebaert The International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) finding in January of a “plausible genocide” in Gaza, and subsequent ruling that Israel is...