Politics

Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in Auckland’s downtown Te Komititanga Square today recalled the 1917 colonial “Balfour betrayal” and condemned it for...

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death toll spirals

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a blistering report on media complicity in war crimes as Israelis...

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report In what is probably one of its most shameful acts...

Holding power accountable – a Pacific journalist’s journey through assaults and censorship

Exposing autocracy from military-ruled Fiji to democratic Samoa, journalist Shalveen Chand has faced cell blocks, state censorship and...

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

An edited version of a speech Mary Kostakidis delivered at the Media Diversity Australia Symposium where she spoke...

The West’s double standards are once again on display in Israel and Palestine

ANALYSIS: By M. Muhannad Ayyash American President Joe Biden is among the latest Western politicians to land in Tel Aviv in a show of support...

Te Pāti Māori calls for NZ to insist on Israel-Gaza ceasefire, ‘absolute peace’

RNZ Morning Report Te Pāti Māori wants the incoming and outgoing governments of Aotearoa New Zealand to use the country’s strong international voice to insist...

Fall of a Fijian trafficker exposes previous government’s blind eye to meth

By Aubrey Belford, Stevan Dojcinovic, Jared Savage and Kelvin Anthony in an OCCRP investigation The operator of a Pacific-wide network of pharmacy companies, Aiyaz...

Jonathan Cook: Israel’s ‘another Iraqi WMD moment’ – we’re being gaslit

COMMENTARY: By Jonathan Cook Let's say it again: The BIGGEST fake news comes from the establishment media. When the stakes are high, it barely bothers...

War on Gaza: Bombed hospital a turning point? Hegemonic security v true justice

ANALYSIS: By Marwan Bishara The Israeli bombing of the Baptist hospital in Gaza killing hundreds of innocent Palestinians may have been a turning point in...

Donna Miles: We can condemn the Hamas attacks and Israel’s occupation

An Israeli air strike has hit Al Ahli hospital in Gaza City where thousands of civilians are seeking medical treatment and shelter from relentless...