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Israel’s diabolical killing machine and how it targets journalists

As World Press Freedom Day rapidly approaches and Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Israeli government for its massacre of journalists in Lebanon and Palestine, New Zealand journalist David...

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific

Updated research has shown up lingering headaches over the impacts of decades-long nuclear testing in the Pacific islands...

Banners for Humanity stage powerful community MSF medical fundraiser event

SPECIAL REPORT: By Tony Fala Saturday, 18 April 2026, was a beautiful autumn day in Henderson, Tāmaki, Aotearoa, but...

Amnesty slams Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as ‘voracious predators’

By Anealla Safdar in London The heads of Israel, Russia and the United States are leading the destruction of...

South African activist praises World Court genocide case against Israel

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report A South African-born New Zealand critic of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing today...

Gaza’s agony – the hinge point in the loss of Western dominance

The scale of deliberate Israeli cruelty against the Gazan people over the past five months is still difficult for Australians to absorb. But internationally,...

‘The Forever War’ – ABC Four Corners reports on the assault on Gaza

Pacific Media Watch The War on Gaza will be etched in the memories of generations to come — the brutality of Hamas’s 7 October 2023...

Pacific journalist Barbara Dreaver challenges TVNZ chief over job cuts

Pacific Media Watch Television New Zealand’s chief executive has been challenged by the public broadcaster’s Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver at a fiery staff meeting over...

Question for PNG foreign minister Tkatchenko – what does the defence pact mean for West Papua?

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have formally ratified a defence agreement a decade after its initial signing. PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko...

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel accused of torturing UN workers to obtain false testimony about UNRWA

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone A recent UNRWA document says its staff report having been tortured while detained by Israeli forces, who pressed them to provide...

Mediawatch: Apocalypse now for NZ news – take 2?

RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock Television New Zealand’s proposals to balance its worsening books by killing news and current affairs programmes mean New Zealanders could...