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Former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama jailed over block of USP police probe

RNZ Pacific Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been sentenced to one year in prison, Fiji media are reporting. Bainimarama, alongside suspended Fiji Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho appeared in the...

David Robie: A future in Pacific journalism in the age of ‘media phobia’

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2018: By David Robie Kia Ora Tatou and Ni Sa Bula, For many of you millennials, you’re graduating...

‘We are witnessing an unfolding genocide’ – Israeli historian

Team Zeteo After months of threats and speculation, the Israeli military has officially begun to move into the southern...

How an ‘antisemitism hoax’ drowned out the discovery of mass graves in Gaza

Fake Israeli claims keep Western publics focused on "evil" humanitarian aid workers and "evil" anti-war protesters rather than...

Auckland Palestine rally honours Gaza journalists for freedom award

Asia Pacific Report About 500 people honoured Palestinian journalists in the heart of the New Zealand city of Auckland...

27 years in captivity – free Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle He is the most popular Palestinian leader alive today — and yet few people in the West even know his...

Biden hails ‘press freedom, democracy’ but ignores Gaza media death toll of 142

Pacific Media Watch US President Joe Biden has spoken at the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner in Washington in spite of protests over alleged “complicity”...

Palestine protesters stage Gaza ‘die-in’ as leaders call for step up in boycotts

By David Robie A score of Palestine solidarity protesters draped themselves in white shrouds with mock blood in a sombre “die-in” demonstration at Te Komitanga...

Craig Murray: Western and Arab political class utterly divorced from their people over Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Craig Murray Governments cannot take big decisions extremely quickly except in the most extreme of circumstances. There are mechanisms in all states that...

Naomi Klein: Jews must raise their voices for Palestine – oppose the ‘false idol of Zionism’

DEMOCRACY NOW! Address by Naomi Klein Hundreds of protesters were arrested in Brooklyn on Tuesday when Jewish New Yorkers and allies gathered for what they...

Palestine protesters challenge TVNZ over Israeli ambassador’s ‘propaganda’

Pacific Media Watch Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda”...