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West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military

REVIEW: By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report West Papuan diaspora, academics, students and community activists warmly applauded the screening of the new investigative documentary, Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in...

Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum

Asia Pacific Report A new documentary film on the devastating “ecocide” happening in West Papua will be screened as...

Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster

It’s only Day Five of the war, but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the...

12 reasons why a huge split is opening up in the West over US-Israel’s ‘manifestly illegal’ war on Iran

ANALYSIS: By Nury Vittachi The West is in turmoil over countries’ top legal minds declaring the US-Israel attack on...

Eugene Doyle: Minab school massacre – hands off the children of Iran, Donald Trump

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle When I heard the terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than...

Israeli troops seize, blindfold naked journalists in bid to ‘silence’ Gaza

Pacific Media Watch Ismail al-Ghoul, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who was held for 12 hours at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, says Israeli forces rounded up...

Christchurch attacks 5 years on: terrorist’s online history gives clues to preventing future atrocities

ANALYSIS: By Chris Wilson, Ethan Renner, Jack Smylie, and Michal Dziwulski As our research has previously revealed, the man who attacked two mosques in Christchurch...

A tribute to a Pacific visionary – remembering Epeli Hau’ofa

By Aisha Azeemah in Suva With the lights on one of his sneakers blinking as he ran through the gallery, a little boy looked up...

NZ Palestine protesters praise Irish solidarity over Gaza on St Patrick’s Day

Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland’s Takutai Square today hailed the strong stance of Ireland over Israel’s genocidal war against...

Caitlin Johnstone: They’re really going to try to lay all the blame for Gaza on Netanyahu

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone They’re really going to try to pin all the blame for the incineration of Gaza on Benjamin Netanyahu so that nothing...

The Elders chair Mary Robinson calls for Biden to stop arming Israel

By Jessica Corbett The Elders chair Mary Robinson has highlighted the unique leverage that the United States has with Israel and called on the Biden...