Climate

An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia over political critics

REVIEW: By David Robie Three months ago, a group of lawyers in Aotearoa New Zealand called for a first-of-its-kind inquiry into New Zealand spy agencies over whether they have been...

Caitlin Johnstone: Biden administration finally declares that a genocide is happening – in Sudan

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Biden administration, which has been intimately complicit in the genocidal atrocities being perpetrated in...

Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024

COMMENTARY: By David Robie With the door now shut on 2024, many will heave a sigh of relief and...

‘Ghost of Suharto’ marks Prabowo’s new phase in West Papua occupation

SPECIAL REPORT: By Paul Gregoire United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) provisional government interim president Benny Wenda has...

Caitlin Johnstone: We live in a propaganda nightmare

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Awakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you’re frequently disgusted with society...

Cyclone Gabrielle triggers more destructive forestry ‘slash’ – NZ must change how it grows trees

ANALYSIS: By Mark Bloomberg, University of Canterbury The severe impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on the North Island, and the five severe weather events experienced by...

Cyclone Gabrielle: Severity of damage ‘not seen in a generation’, says PM Hipkins

RNZ News At least 2500 people have been displaced by Cyclone Gabrielle this week, says Emergency Management Minister Kieran McAnulty. About 1000 of those are in...

NZ declares national emergency as Cyclone Gabrielle unleashes fury across North Island

RNZ News A national state of emergency has been declared today after Cyclone Gabrielle unleashed fury across the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. There has...

Why Pacific Islanders are staying put even as rising seas flood their homes and crops

ANALYSIS: By Merewalesi Yee, The University of Queensland; Annah Piggott-McKellar, Queensland University of Technology; Celia McMichael, The University of Melbourne, and Karen E McNamara,...

The Doctrine of ‘Discovery’, Te Moana and the people’s fight for climate crisis action

Reviewed by Dr David Robie As the editor, American-Kiwi anarchist, dissident and activist Valerie Morse notes in the preface to Peace Action, this practical treatise...

Toxic smoke chokes region as Indonesian rainforests burn – David Robie on TRT

Asia Pacific Report Thousands of forest fires have been burning across Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra, disrupting air travel, closing schools and sickening thousands of people,...