Politics

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...

Mediawatch: Further fallout as RNZ takes out the ‘Kremlin garbage’

External experts are poring over the “inappropriate editing” of international news published online by RNZ. It has already tightened editorial checks and stood down...

Richard Naidu: Money, politics and fear – yet FFP’s millions still weren’t enough

ANALYSIS: By Richard Naidu in Suva It has been six months now, but I have to make a strange admission. I miss the laughs I...

West Papua’s customary region leaders back full MSG membership

Asia Pacific Report Seven executives representing all the customary regions of West Papua have declared their support for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua...

Mr Speaker, we’re not your enemies. We’re reporting without fear or favour

EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier Mister Speaker, our collective question without notice is to you mister Speaker. We want the Prime Minister and his deputy to take...

O’Neill says defence pact giving US forces ‘immunity’ threatens PNG sovereignty

By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Former Papua New Guinean prime minister Peter O’Neill says the controversial US-PNG Defence Cooperation Agreement threatens the country’s sovereignty. He...

I was involved in stalled talks to free kidnapped NZ pilot in West Papua. What happens now?

ANALYSIS: By Damien Kingsbury New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens has now been held hostage in West Papua for four months. Stalled attempts to negotiate his...