Politics

As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they...

Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague

By Vahefonua Tupola in Suva The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global...

How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world’s highest court. And won

Last week, the UN’s highest court issued a stinging ruling that countries have a legal obligation to limit...

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...

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...

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...

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, before these locations were designated as...

‘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 Warrior bombing almost 40 years ago...

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 top priority, suggesting instead that defeating...

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 not let the world look away. Keep...

Palestine protesters march on TVNZ, accuse broadcaster of bias on Gaza

Asia Pacific Report About 1000 pro-Palestinian protesters marked World Press Freedom Day — May 3 — today by marching on the public broadcaster Television New...