Articles

Chris Hedges: The last days of Gaza

The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilisation, writes Chris Hedges. ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges This is the end. The...

Caitlin Johnstone: Staring down the barrel of war with Iran once again

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Well it looks like the US is on the precipice of war with Iran again. US...

Why Israel’s ‘humane’ propaganda is such a sinister facade

COMMENTARY: By Cole Martin in Occupied Bethlehem Many people have been closely following the journey this week of the...

New Zealand’s foreign policy stance on Palestine lacks transparency

COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs It is difficult to understand what sits behind the New Zealand government’s unwillingness to sanction,...

Bougainville wants independence. China’s support for a controversial mine could pave the way

ANALYSIS: By Anna-Karina Hermkens Bougainville, an autonomous archipelago currently part of Papua New Guinea, is determined to become the...

Asia Pacific Report: A New Zealand nonprofit journalism model for campus-based social justice media

By David Robie For 13 years (2007-2020), the Pacific Media Centre research and publication unit at Auckland University of Technology published journalism with an "activist"...

Pacific media freedom under greater attack than ever

By Samisoni Pareti in Suva With the trial of three newspaper executives underway in Fiji in May on charges of sedition, the assault of a...

Media freedom under attack in the Pacific

By Samisoni Pareti in Suva With the trial of three newspaper executives underway in Fiji in May on charges of sedition, the assault of a...

Facebook still censors West Papua photo – ‘nudity’ or politics?

Pacific Media Watch Facebook has censored a West Papuan image by a Vanuatu-based photojournalist for the second time in less than four days -- this...

Flashback to the 1968 My Lai massacre: ‘Something dark and bloody’

By David Robie, originally published at Café Pacific blog The Melbourne Sunday Observer -- the original newspaper of that name which campaigned against Australian involvement...

Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’

REVIEWS: David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review When Commodore (now rear admiral retired and an elected prime minister) Voreqe Bainimarama staged Fiji’s fourth “coup...