Books

Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’

Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free policy as a “fundamental tenet” of its independent foreign policy in...

Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not US bomb-based statecraft

ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle Setting aside any thoughts I may have about theocratic rulers (whether they be in Tel...

Caitlin Johnstone: The fictional mental illness that only affects enemies of the Western empire

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Within the storytelling of Western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental...

Jonathan Cook: Israel’s attack on Iran – the violent new world being born is going to horrify you

Twenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the "birth pangs" of a new Middle East. Now they...

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel supporters will be despised for the rest of their lives

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Do Israel’s supporters know it’s over for them? Like, they know they’re going to be...

Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific (2014)

By David Robie A comprehensive "hidden stories of the Pacific" media and communication book about many of the region’s major issues of the past two...

Coups, conflicts and human rights: Pacific media challenges in the digital age

By David Robie At the heart of a global crisis over news media credibility and trust is Britain’s so-called Hackgate scandal involving the widespread allegations...

Remembering Rainbow Warrior: How French President Mitterrand personally approved the attack on Greenpeace 20 years ago

Democracy Now! Twenty years ago on 10 July 1985, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed by French government agents and sunk in Auckland harbour,...

20 years after the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

By Anastasia Siniori "K" Magazine, published by Kathimerini Publishing SA of Greece, ran a six-page article and interviews with Grace O'Sullivan and David Robie (including...

Mekim Nius: South Pacific Media, Politics and Education (2004)

By David Robie The news media is the watchdog of democracy. But in the South Pacific today the Fourth Estate role is under threat from...

Journalism Education in the South Pacific, 1975-2003 : Politics, policy and practice

By David Robie University education for South Pacific journalists is a relatively recent development. It has existed in Papua New Guinea for merely a generation;...