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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 starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of General...

Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’

Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free...

Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not US bomb-based statecraft

ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle Setting aside any thoughts I may have about theocratic rulers (whether they be in Tel...

Caitlin Johnstone: The fictional mental illness that only affects enemies of the Western empire

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Within the storytelling of Western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental...

Jonathan Cook: Israel’s attack on Iran – the violent new world being born is going to horrify you

Twenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the "birth pangs" of a new Middle East. Now they...

Tikoduadua asks Fiji’s police chief to resign over ‘matters of confidence’

Asia Pacific Report Fiji’s Minister for Home Affairs and Immigration has invited the Commissioner of Police to resign, citing concerns on matters of confidence in...

Why a royal princess from the Pacific is living in Arkansas

Pacific Media Watch The US tested 67 nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands, tricking the people who lived on Bikini Atoll to leave their homeland...

Fiji lawyer Imrana Jalal’s warning: ‘No victimisation or targeted prosecutions’

By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji lawyer and former human rights activist Imrana Jalal has offered a “warning” to her motherland that should people be...

Professor thrilled over USP return – Fiji to pay $90m university debt

By Felix Chaudhary in Suva Exiled University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia says he is thrilled at the prospect of returning to...

Exiled USP chief, Dr Lal now free to enter Fiji, says Rabuka

By Josefa Babitu in Suva The greenlight has been given to University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, and Dr Padma Lal, to...

Benny Wenda: A West Papuan Christmas message

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: By Benny Wenda As 2022 draws to a close, I would like to thank everyone who has supported the West Papuan struggle this...