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Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice for Gaza

By David Robie Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman today recalled New Zealand’s heyday as a Pacific nuclear free champion in the 1980s, and challenged the country to again become...

Caitlin Johnstone: The Empire has accidentally caused the rebirth of real counterculture in the West

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of Westerners happily being...

The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end of innocence

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Immediately after killing Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland...

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation

ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges Israel’s weaponisation of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated...

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...

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 illness which only affects people the...

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 have arrived in full force --...

Eugene Doyle: How centrifugal forces have been unleashed in Iran

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The surprise US-Israeli attack on Iran is literally and figuratively designed to unleash centrifugal forces in the Islamic Republic. Two nuclear powers...

Egyptian crackdown on Gaza blockade busters but Kiwi activists vow to ‘defeat genocide’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England in Ōtautahi and Ava Mulla in Cairo Hope for freedom for Palestinians remains high among a group of trauma-struck New...

Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you cannot assassinate your way to peace

ANALYSIS: By Matt Fitzpatrick In the late 1960s, the prevailing opinion among Israeli Shin Bet intelligence officers was that the key to defeating the Palestinian...

The story of the journalist on the Rainbow Warrior’s last voyage, David Robie

In April 2025, several of the Greenpeace crew visited Matauri Bay, Northland, the final resting place of the original flagship, the Rainbow Warrior. This...