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Holding power accountable – a Pacific journalist’s journey through assaults and censorship

Exposing autocracy from military-ruled Fiji to democratic Samoa, journalist Shalveen Chand has faced cell blocks, state censorship and physical assaults for holding Pacific powers accountable. Now joining the Cook...

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

An edited version of a speech Mary Kostakidis delivered at the Media Diversity Australia Symposium where she spoke...

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

REVIEW: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report I have watched the most disturbing film in my lifetime...

A reminder of what is possible in community empowerment – ‘survival pending revolution’

This book launch speech was delivered today for Ponsonby People’s Union: At the Frontline of Community Activism in...

Palestinian researcher exposes Israel’s list of so-called ‘terrorist’ journalists slain in Gaza as smear

COMMENTARY: By Stephen Prager Seeking to discredit reports of its unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza, the Israel Defense...

Eugene Doyle: The dismemberment of Syria is a crime

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle What we are witnessing is not just the end of a regime but quite possibly the destruction of the Syrian state. We...

‘Politics is finally possible’: After surprise fall of Syria’s Assad in protracted civil war, what’s next?

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show with Syria and the aftermath of the historic collapse of the Assad regime. Israeli forces are continuing...

The ceasefire in Lebanon paused the war but not the struggle against genocide

As the world focuses on post-Assad Syria, this article reflects on Lebanon after the "ceasefire". A country with a history of resistance and struggle,...

Francesca Albanese, public intellectuals and the industry of pro-Palestine defamation

COMMENTARY: By Layth Malhis You, the reader, are the public intellectual. Unfortunately, this message carries immense weight: those who engage with Palestine bear a collective...

US officials talked about merits of removing $10m bounty on Syrian rebel leader

By Sean Mathews American officials have discussed the merits of removing a $10m bounty on Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, whose rebel...

Caitlin Johnstone: Assad is out, woke Al-Qaeda is in

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Well, the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is out, likely to be replaced by one or more US puppet regimes...