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 led through a chant of “Death,...
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 harbour, several of the French agents...
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 starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during...
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 policy as a “fundamental tenet” of...
Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not US bomb-based statecraft
ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle
Setting aside any thoughts I may have about theocratic rulers (whether they be in Tel Aviv or Tehran), I am personally...
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...