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The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap

COMMENTARY:  By Eugene Doyle On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had...

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...

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...

Tjibaou’s party unveils plan for New Caledonia’s future ‘independence’

By Patrick Decloitre New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party, the Union Calédonienne (UC), has unveiled the main outcome of its congress last month, including its plans...

Israel and the ICC: A legal scholar’s response to The Washington Post

ANALYSIS: By Abdelghany Sayed On November 24, The Washington Post’s editorial board published an editorial in which it laid out its views on the arrest...

Wenda calls for West Papuan unity in the face of Jakarta’s renewed ‘colonial grip’

Asia Pacific Report An exiled West Papuan leader has called for unity among his people in the face of a renewed “colonial grip” of Indonesia’s...

West Papua: Once was Papuan Independence Day, now facing ‘ecocide’, transmigration

On Papuan Independence Day, the focus is on discussing protests against Indonesia’s transmigration programme, environmental destruction, militarisation, and the struggle for self-determination. Te Ao...

COP29: Pacific takes stock of ‘baby steps’ global climate summit

By Sera Sefeti in Baku, Azerbaijan As the curtain fell at the UN climate summit in Baku last Sunday, frustration and disappointment engulfed Pacific delegations...

Climate protests to continue despite 170 charged in Newcastle ‘protestival’

Despite Australia’s draconian anti-protest laws, the world’s biggest coal port was closed for four hours at the weekend with 170 protesters being charged —...