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New Pacific Media journal launched with a focus on region’s challenges and geostrategic rivalries

Asia Pacific Media Network Pacific Media, a new regional research journal, made its debut this week with a collection of papers on issues challenging the future, such as independent journalism...

The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide – why their role will haunt them

UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese’s talks to journalist Chris Hedges about her new report that examines...

Caitlin Johnstone: The US empire keeps getting creepier

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Secretary of War™ Pete Hegseth said during a speech on Friday that the US is...

‘Profound distrust’ in France, says Pacific people’s mission report calling for new Kanaky negotiations

Asia Pacific Report A Pacific people’s mission to Kanaky New Caledonia was repeatedly confronted with a “profound sense of...

Filipino radio storytelling and community empowerment – a Vinzons update

By David Robie in Vinzons, Philippines More than five years ago I wrote an article for the Pacific Media...

Caitlin Johnstone: It shouldn’t have taken this much for mainstream voices to start speaking up about Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide, as has the Israel-based Physicians for Human...

Caitlin Johnstone: It’s a genocide, but it’s also so much more than that

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The mass atrocity in Gaza is a genocide, obviously, and is an undisguised ethnic cleansing operation. But it’s also a lot more...

Eugene Doyle: Nagasaki now a celebration of Israeli genocide

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Israel’s key enablers, the G7, plus Australia and New Zealand, have succeeded in muscling Israel back onto the invite list for...

Keep fighting for a nuclear-free Pacific, Helen Clark warns Greenpeace over global storm clouds

Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark warned activists and campaigners in a speech on the deck of the Greenpeace environmental flagship...

Caitlin Johnstone: The New York Times finally stops avoiding the g-word

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of...

David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers

By Susana Suisuiki and Lydia Lewis The New Zealand government needs to do more for its Pacific Island neighbours and stand up to nuclear powers,...