Justice

Protesters condemn Luxon govt for failing to condemn illegal war on Iran

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report New Zealand’s government was taken to task today for its lack of a principled stand against Israel’s Gaza genocide and the illegal and unprovoked...

President Trump, don’t listen to your sycophants on Iran, this isn’t reality TV

COMMENTARY: By Robert Reich Mr Trump, may I have a word? Bad enough for you to insist — in the...

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...

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...

ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged war crimes

ANALYSIS: By Catherine Gegout The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his former Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant,...

NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill ‘inviting civil war’, says former PM Shipley

RNZ Saturday Morning A former New Zealand prime minister, Dame Jenny Shipley, has warned the ACT Party is “inviting civil war” with its attempt to...

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...

Caitlin Johnstone: The mainstream Western worldview pretends the Global South doesn’t exist

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Mainstream Western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist. The mainstream Western worldview shrinks the earth...

Jonathan Cook: Israeli torture chambers aren’t new. They are what provoked the violence of October 7

Those who can’t connect barbaric abuses of Palestinians by Israelis — generation after generation — and the crimes of October 7, have little understanding...

Caitlin Johnstone: ‘Why should I care about Gaza?’

We can’t keep living like this. Our species cannot continue living on this planet as though what happens to other people and other organisms...