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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...

Censorship over Gaza is a crucial complement of genocide

ANALYSIS: By Somdeep Sen Last month on the BBC’s flagship news programme, Newsnight, author and journalist Howard Eric Jacobson complained that Britain’s public broadcaster had...

ABC editorial staff call for content chief to resign over Gaza comments sacking

Pacific Media Watch Editorial staff at Australia’s public broadcaster ABC have again registered a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson and senior...

Te Kuaka calls for urgent law change on spy agency, warns over Pacific

Asia Pacific Report Te Kuaka, an independent foreign policy advocacy group with a strong focus on the Pacific, has called for urgent changes to the...

Under pressure, Australia reinstates some visas to Gazans fleeing genocide

By A Firenze in Gadigal/Sydney Palestinians fleeing war-ravaged Gaza for safety in Australia were left stranded when the Labor government abruptly cancelled their visas. The “subclass...

NZ government urged to help evacuate Palestinians from war on Gaza

By Katie Scotcher The New Zealand government is being urged to create a special humanitarian visa for Palestinians in Gaza with ties to this country. More...

Hundreds stage Sydney ‘die-in’ to protest massacres in Gaza

By Wendy Bacon in Sydney Twenty-four weeks of city marches and a five-week vigil outside the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s electoral office in Marrickville have...