Articles

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 champion in the 1980s, and challenged the country to again become...

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...

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...

Pacific Media Centre focuses on reporting wars and dangers for journalists, aid workers

David Robie has played a key role in establishing the Pacific Media Centre as part of the Creative Industries Research Institute (CIRI) with a...

Indonesia’s Jawa Pos – a remarkable success story

By David Robie The publisher of all three major newspapers in West Papua is barely known in this part of the Pacific. Yet the Jawa...

No colonel of truth in Fiji

For a year, journalists in Fiji have had to live with censors posted in the newsroom. Now a new media decree threatens huge fines...

David Robie: Fiji media fights on for free press

By David Robie Editors, broadcasters and publishers are struggling to defend the last vestige of a free press in Fiji in the face of a...

Pacific Media Centre – a video profile

Pacific Media Centre Introducing some of the team and projects involved in the Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology in Aotearoa New Zealand. Meet...

Fiji’s ‘how to gag the media’ report

By David Robie in Café Pacific It is ironic that Jim Anthony's flawed report for the Fiji Human Rights Commission should be dubbed with an...