Articles

How the US, Israel and Iran are controlling their media narratives

COMMENTARY: By Majdoline Al-Shammouri in Beirut In the ongoing United States and Israel war on Iran, it appears that all the countries agree on “controlling” the media. Despite differences in their...

Cuban envoy makes strong plea for his country defying US blockade

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report Cuba’s Ambassador to New Zealand, Luis Morejón Rodríguez, last night made a passionate...

Corruption reporting project mourns the loss of Dan McGarry, pioneering Pacific editor and investigative journalist

OBITUARY: By Aubrey Belford, Australia and South Pacific regional editor of OCCRP The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project...

Caitlin Johnstone: Iran is forcing the world to care about US-Israeli warmongering

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran...

Iran’s ‘Samson option’: Deterrence restored or nothing – the logic behind Tehran’s next move

ANALYSIS: By Kevork Almassian When the Strait of Hormuz closes, you don’t need to be a military analyst to...

NZ news media under fire for ‘bias, propaganda’ in Gaza coverage

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand news media came under fire at today’s Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war...

Caitlin Johnstone: When the imperial media report on an Israeli massacre

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone In what many are now calling the Flour Massacre, at least 112 Gazans were killed and hundreds more injured after Israeli...

John Minto: Why New Zealand should not designate Hamas a terrorist group

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The New Zealand government is shortly to announce whether it will designate Hamas a “terrorist” group in response to the October...

Caitlin Johnstone: The most American thing that has ever happened

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone A man set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington today. He said he did it in protest of...

Gaza media voices: Who are Bisan, Hind Khoudary, Motaz and Plestia?

Young women Bisan Owda, Hind Khudary, Plestia Alaqad -- and Motaz Azaiza, a young man also from Gaza -- are among a new generation...

Kia Ora Gaza organiser condemns ‘open genocide’ in Gaza Strip

While telling today’s Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland about the “good news” of creative humanitarian aid plans to help Palestinians amid the War on...