Articles

12 reasons why a huge split is opening up in the West over US-Israel’s ‘manifestly illegal’ war on Iran

ANALYSIS: By Nury Vittachi The West is in turmoil over countries’ top legal minds declaring the US-Israel attack on Iran to be illegal, as China did. But Israel-friendly Western politicians, including...

Eugene Doyle: Minab school massacre – hands off the children of Iran, Donald Trump

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle When I heard the terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than...

NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in central Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau today were highly...

Roger Fowler, a legend of the Aotearoa solidarity movement, dies at 77

OBITUARY: By David Robie Roger Norman Fowler: 12 September 1948 – 21 February 2026 Roger Fowler, an activist legend of...

Activists tell of ‘apocalyptic’ ecocide on top of Israel’s Gaza genocide at rally

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report Two Extinction Rebellion activists joined the speakers today at an Auckland protest over...

Media and academia: the intriguing case of the Pacific Media Center

By David Robie Te Amokura: Pacific Media Centre (PMC) was founded at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in October 2007 at a time of great...

Murray Horton: The day the police came looking for a swifty Mr Gangster

By Murray Horton As I was having breakfast in my Christchurch suburban dining room on Monday morning, I heard a loud but indeterminate noise. I actually...

New Zealand’s 23-day Parliament siege: QAnon and how social media disinformation manufactured an ‘alternate reality’

By David Robie in Pacific Journalism Review Fires burned across Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament grounds, and violent clashes broke out between protesters and police on...

‘Doorstops’ at the Pacific Forum – why no tough questions on West Papua?

By Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie A lively 43sec video clip surfaced during last week’s Pacific Islands Forum in the Fiji capital of Suva...

‘Survival and truth’ – journalists in the Asia-Pacific

Asia Media Centre Journalists and journalism are waging a global struggle for survival and for “truth” against fake news and alternative facts, say two Asia-Pacific...

Journalism education ‘truth’ challenges: An age of growing hate, intolerance and disinformation

By David Robie This keynote commentary at the Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC) conference with the theme Change, Adaptation and Culture: Media and...