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New Pacific Media journal launched with a focus on region’s challenges and geostrategic rivalries

Asia Pacific Media Network Pacific Media, a new regional research journal, made its debut this week with a collection of papers on issues challenging the future, such as independent journalism...

The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide – why their role will haunt them

UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese’s talks to journalist Chris Hedges about her new report that examines...

Caitlin Johnstone: The US empire keeps getting creepier

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Secretary of War™ Pete Hegseth said during a speech on Friday that the US is...

‘Profound distrust’ in France, says Pacific people’s mission report calling for new Kanaky negotiations

Asia Pacific Report A Pacific people’s mission to Kanaky New Caledonia was repeatedly confronted with a “profound sense of...

Filipino radio storytelling and community empowerment – a Vinzons update

By David Robie in Vinzons, Philippines More than five years ago I wrote an article for the Pacific Media...

Caitlin Johnstone: Biden’s legacy is genocide, war, and nuclear brinkmanship

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Biden’s legacy is genocide, war, and nuclear brinkmanship. That’s all anyone should talk about when this psychopath finally dies. Anything positive he...

Rising Tide climate crisis ‘Protestival’ to go ahead despite court ruling

The NSW Supreme Court has issued orders prohibiting a major climate protest that would blockade ships entering the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle...

Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’

COMMENTARY: By Robert Reid The Enemy Within, by Maire Leadbeater is many things. It is: • A family history • A social history • A history of the...

Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza ‘betrayal of true feminism’

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: As we continue to look...

Chris Hedges: The politics of cultural despair – and the American nightmare

ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges In the end, the US election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialisation. Despair over the loss of...

New survey finds an alarming tolerance for attacks on the press in the US – particularly among white, Republican men

ANALYSIS: By Julie Posetti and Waqas Ejaz Press freedom is a pillar of American democracy. But political attacks on US-based journalists and news organisations pose...