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New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse and political pressure

By Monika Singh of Wansolwara News Pacific media are facing one of their most challenging reporting environments in their history, marked by governance issues, political instability, geopolitical pressures and escalating...

Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?

COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans What have we become if to survive in our so-called “free world” we must turn...

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...

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...

John Minto: Cruel irony in claims RNZ reports are biased in favour of Palestine

COMMENTARY: By John Minto There is cruel irony in reports that Radio New Zealand has edited foreign news reports in favour of Palestinians. It is ironic...

Fiji PM Rabuka downplays ‘loyalist’ nepotism allegations

By Kelvin Anthony Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has played down criticism he is leading an administration that practices nepotism and favouritism. The Rabuka-led three-party coalition...

UN told France has ‘robbed’ Kanaks of New Caledonian independence

By David Robie New Caledonia’s Kanak national liberation movement has told the UN Decolonisation Committee that France has “robbed” the indigenous people of their independence...

NGOs work in ‘public interest – not foreign lackeys’, says activist in Jakarta libel case

Asia Pacific Report A defendant in an Indonesian case of alleged defamation, Fatia Maulidiyanti, has hit back at a statement by Coordinating Minister for Maritime...

Gavin Ellis: Proof our newsrooms need a ‘second pair of eyes’

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis Own goals by two of our top news organisations last week raised a fundamental question: What has happened to their checking...

‘Mental torture’ – protesters seek freedom for detained Iran refugee

By Lydia Lewis and Christina Persico As Australian protesters gathered outside the Brisbane detention centre calling for the freedom of a Nauru refugee, the man...