Analysis

Jonathan Cook: Dr Abu Safiya symbolised humanity in Gaza. Israel and the West are destroying it

Israel isn’t eradicating "the terrorists". It’s turning Gaza into a wasteland, a hellscape, where doctors no longer exist, aid workers are a memory, and compassion a liability, writes Jonathan...

Majed al-Zeer: Amid genocide, the tide is turning for Palestine but the fight is far from over

ANALYSIS: By Majed al-Zeer The suffering of the Palestinian people, which began with the Nakba and the establishment of...

An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia over political critics

REVIEW: By David Robie Four months ago, a group of lawyers in Aotearoa New Zealand called for a little...

Caitlin Johnstone: Biden administration finally declares that a genocide is happening – in Sudan

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Biden administration, which has been intimately complicit in the genocidal atrocities being perpetrated in...

Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024

COMMENTARY: By David Robie With the door now shut on 2024, many will heave a sigh of relief and...

Media challenges in a digital world – a Pacific perspective (Part two)

This is part of a keynote address by Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie at the 2015 University of the South Pacific (USP)...

Media challenges in a digital world – a Pacific perspective (Part one)

In a keynote address at the 2015 University of the South Pacific (USP) journalism awards, Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie, formerly head...

Jackson’s Plan B for public media may prioritise Māori and Pacific coverage

Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the New Zealand government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems...

Africa’s highway takes shape – bureaucrats, mud and all

Flashback to a cover story in African Development magazine in April 1974. The Trans-African Highway (TAH) was expected to ease trade and other contacts...

Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and tireless campaigner against South African apartheid, once observed: “If you are neutral in...

Keeping the flow – the use of te reo Māori at NZ’s Parliament

By Johnny Blades An increased appetite to learn te reo Māori among members and staff from different parts of the Parliamentary system means the work...