Articles

Caitlin Johnstone: On human rights, ‘friendly’ war crimes and Western hypocrisy

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The death toll has risen to 12 from Israel’s terror attack in Lebanon on Tuesday which detonated explosive materials hidden in thousands of pagers. Another 20 people...

Great journalism overview of troubling politics and violence in the Pacific region

BOOK REVIEW: By Anna-Karina Hermkens Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific is...

Up close and friendly with Vietnam’s war resistance Củ Chi tunnels

COMMENTARY: By David Robie in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam’s famous Củ Chi tunnel network was on our bucket...

Ramzy Baroud: Itamar Ben-Gvir and the acceleration of the collapse of Israel

ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed on August 26 to build a synagogue inside...

West Papuan independence advocate seeks NZ support against ‘genocide, ecocide’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News West Papuan independence advocate Octovianus Mote is in...

Three NZ Arab doctors joining Kia Ora Gaza humanitarian aid mission

Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealand doctors — two Palestinian and one Iraq-born — are planning to join the charity Kia Ora Gaza in its...

Israel’s Al Jazeera ban ‘alarms’ media watchdog on free press stranglehold

Pacific Media Watch The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to...

From Gaza to West Papua, the long struggle for justice and freedom

ANALYSIS: By David Robie On my office wall hangs a framed portrait of Shireen Abu Akleh, the inspiring and celebrated American-Palestinian journalist known across the...

Caitlin Johnstone: The plan is to turn Palestine into a historical footnote so it’s too late to save it

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Zionist plan for the Palestinians is to kill them and drive them off their land by whatever cruelty is necessary,...

USP faces a ‘gathering storm’ over leadership and a looming strike

Asia Pacific Report The University of the South Pacific — one of only two regional universities in the world — is facing a “gathering storm”...

Indonesian military apologies fail to mask the harassment, gagging of Papuan leaders

COMMENTARY: By Ronny Kareni Since the atrocious footage of the suffering of an indigenous Papuan man reverberates in the heart of Puncak by the brute...