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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 at “a 1939 moment” of “mounting urgency” in which “enemies gather,...

‘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...

Cole Martin: The Gaza ceasefire isn’t the end – what six months in Palestine showed me

Returning to Aotearoa after half a year in the occupied West Bank, Cole Martin says a peace deal...

Chris Hedges: Remove curse of Gaza genocide before it becomes the norm

This lecture “Requiem for Gaza” was delivered to a sold out audience at the University of South Australia...

Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling frog’

The usually festive Christmas season in West Papua was marred by the death of beloved Papua Governor and Chief Lukas Enembe in an Indonesian...

Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after latest killings

By David Robie, editor of Café Pacific Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and media of our times....

Why NZ should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

The International Court of Justice will today begin hearing oral arguments in the case filed by South Africa, invoking the Genocide Convention in the...

Vale John Pilger, at times a near-lone voice for truth against power

OBITUARY: By Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman of Green Left Sydney-born investigative journalist, author and filmmaker John Pilger died on December 31, 2023. He should be...

Israel and its allies are repurposing the goals and lies of 1948 – in Gaza in 2023

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Yet, just as happened with the first Nakba in 1948, Israel’s lies...

Why West Papuans are raising a banned independence flag across Australia, NZ and the Pacific

BACKGROUNDER: By Stefan Armbruster On 1 December each year, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, a small group of West Papuan immigrants and refugees...