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Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Film names Israeli soldier but Biden, Israel ‘did best to cover up’

Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin today’s show looking at Israel’s ongoing targeting of Palestinian journalists. A recent report by the Costs of War Project at Brown University described the...

Tracing radiation through the Marshall Islands: Reflections from a veteran Greenpeace nuclear campaigner

SPECIAL REPORT: By Shaun Burnie of Greenpeace We’ve visited Ground Zero. Not once, but three times. But for generations,...

‘Under no illusions’ about France, says author of new Rainbow Warrior book

Pacific Media Watch The author of the book Eyes of Fire, one of the many publications on the Rainbow...

Caitlin Johnstone: It was never about hostages. It was never about Hamas

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Benjamin Netanyahu said last Thursday that freeing the Israeli hostages in Gaza was not his...

Too many journalists remain silent over the Gaza genocide, a threat to our media credibility

By David Robie on World Press Freedom Day 2025 I ask you now: Do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do...

Disinformation and climate crisis, governance, training feature in PJR

Pacific Journalism Review Research on climate crisis as the new target for disinformation peddlers, governance and the media, China’s growing communication influence, and journalism training...

Solomon Star promised to ‘promote China’ in return for funding

By Bernadette Carreon and Aubrey Belford A major daily newspaper in Solomon Islands received nearly US$140,000 in funding from the Chinese government in return for...

Wenda accuses Jakarta of crackdown in response to Papuan MSG rallies

Asia Pacific Report Indonesia has stepped up its campaign of repression against West Papuans peacefully rallying for full membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG),...

Oppenheimer’s warning lives on: global laws, treaties fail to stop new arms race

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie J. Robert Oppenheimer — the great nuclear physicist, “father of the atomic bomb”, and now subject of a blockbuster biopic —...

France, Vanuatu agree to sort out ‘southern land’ border dispute

By Doddy Morris in Port Vila French President Emmanuel Macron and Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau have reached an agreement to settle the “land problem”...

CIVICUS protests to Marcos over ‘judicial harassment’, ‘terrorist’ label on human rights activists

Asia Pacific Report A global alliance of civil society organisations has protested to Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr in an open letter over the...