Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: The US empire needs men like Trump

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone If you were wondering why the US establishment was so much more chill about Trump becoming president this term than they were the first time around,...

Trump’s gift-wrapped Maduro package has done the world a favour – revealing what a lie US foreign policy really is

Kidnap, murder, torture, brutality, subversion, treachery, and barbarism, writes Adrian Blackburn reflecting on US President Donald Trump’s New...

A ‘forgotten hero’ against Imperial Japan, but the legacy of ‘Bintao’ Vinzons is being revived

COMMENTARY: By David Robie Vinzons is a quiet coastal town in the eastern Philippines province of Camarines Norte in...

Fiji, NZ protesters kick off UN day of solidarity for Palestine amid calls for sanctions, boycotts on Israel

By David Robie Protesters in Fiji and Aotearoa New Zealand kicked off the UN Day of Solidarity with the...

Fiji PM Rabuka blames ‘insulated’ upbringing for racially motivated 1987 coups

RNZ Pacific Sitiveni Rabuka, the instigator of Fiji’s coup culture, took to the witness stand for the first time...

Craig Murray: Western and Arab political class utterly divorced from their people over Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Craig Murray Governments cannot take big decisions extremely quickly except in the most extreme of circumstances. There are mechanisms in all states that...

Malcolm Evans: A new low in NZ media’s record of bias over Palestine

COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans Last week’s leaked New York Times staff directive, as to what words can and cannot be used to describe the carnage...

Have New Zealanders really been ‘misled’ about AUKUS, or is involvement now a foregone conclusion?

ANALYSIS: By Marco de Jong and Robert G. Patman When former prime minister Helen Clark spoke out against New Zealand potentially compromising its independent foreign...

Reaping what you sow, Iran isn’t the aggressor here

COMMENTARY: By Belén Fernández On Saturday, April 13, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for a deadly Israeli strike on...

Gordon Campbell: On Winston Peters’ pathetic speech at the UN

COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Good grief, Winston Peters. Tens of thousands of Gazans have been slaughtered, two million are on the brink of starvation and...

It is time to de-demonise Hamas – the intifada will go on until justice

ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle Who would not condemn the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 when hundreds of Israeli civilians, as well as hundreds...