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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...

Jonathan Cook: Yes, Trump is vulgar. But the US global shakedown is the same one as ever

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for, it is this: he has decisively stripped away...

Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacy

By Lydia Lewis The Marshall Islands marked 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed last weekend. The Micronesian nation experienced...

NZ arms company building linked to Gaza genocide, claim peace activists

SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England Peace activists who scaled the roof an an international weapons company operating from Christchurch yesterday say the company links Aotearoa...

‘Our film won an Oscar. But here in West Bank’s Masafer Yatta we’re still being erased.’

DOCUMENTARY: Democracy Now! The Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land won an Oscar for best documentary feature at Sunday’s Academy Awards. The film — recently screened in...

Caitlin Johnstone: Trump sends Netanyahu weapons while talking tough to Zelensky

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israeli media are now reporting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering “a brief resumption” of the onslaught in Gaza in...

Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US

Asia Pacific Report In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the...