Analysis

The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap

COMMENTARY:  By Eugene Doyle On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had...

Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice for Gaza

By David Robie Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman today recalled New Zealand’s heyday as a Pacific nuclear free...

Caitlin Johnstone: The Empire has accidentally caused the rebirth of real counterculture in the West

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of Westerners happily being...

The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end of innocence

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Immediately after killing Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland...

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation

ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges Israel’s weaponisation of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated...

Slow solutions to fast-moving ecological crises won’t work – changing basic human behaviours must come first

ANALYSIS: By Mike Joy and Phoebe Barnard As the world grapples with multiple ecological crises, it’s clear the various responses over the past half century...

Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims

Major media organisations all over the world are copping criticism for the way they are reporting what is happening in Gaza and Israel. Mediawatch...

When all the world’s failings end in Gaza – Selwyn Manning, Paul Buchanan assess the crisis

By Selwyn Manning, editor of Evening Report As we prepared for this podcast, representatives of Arab states have presented a united front at the United...

The West’s double standards are once again on display in Israel and Palestine

ANALYSIS: By M. Muhannad Ayyash American President Joe Biden is among the latest Western politicians to land in Tel Aviv in a show of support...

Fall of a Fijian trafficker exposes previous government’s blind eye to meth

By Aubrey Belford, Stevan Dojcinovic, Jared Savage and Kelvin Anthony in an OCCRP investigation The operator of a Pacific-wide network of pharmacy companies, Aiyaz...

Jonathan Cook: Israel’s ‘another Iraqi WMD moment’ – we’re being gaslit

COMMENTARY: By Jonathan Cook Let's say it again: The BIGGEST fake news comes from the establishment media. When the stakes are high, it barely bothers...