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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...

Caitlin Johnstone: ‘America First’ means stomping out free speech in the US in order to help Israel

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone There is a video of Donald Trump going around where he says  --  while standing in front of an Israeli flag ...

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...

NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and rules of Parliament

BACKGROUNDER: By Lillian Hanly, Craig McCulloch and Te Manu Korihi Te Pāti Māori’s extraordinary display of protest — interrupting the first vote on the Treaty...

Caitlin Johnstone: To be pro-Israel is to be pro-war

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The way raw video evidence debunked the “Amsterdam pogrom” narrative in real time in full view of the entire world is...

The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior – Rongelap podcast series

ABC Radio Australia and RNZ You probably know about the last moments of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985. But what do you know about...

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...