Politics

Caitlin Johnstone: On human rights, ‘friendly’ war crimes and Western hypocrisy

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The death toll has risen to 12 from Israel’s terror attack in Lebanon on Tuesday which detonated explosive materials hidden in thousands of pagers. Another 20 people...

Great journalism overview of troubling politics and violence in the Pacific region

BOOK REVIEW: By Anna-Karina Hermkens Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific is...

Up close and friendly with Vietnam’s war resistance Củ Chi tunnels

COMMENTARY: By David Robie in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam’s famous Củ Chi tunnel network was on our bucket...

Ramzy Baroud: Itamar Ben-Gvir and the acceleration of the collapse of Israel

ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed on August 26 to build a synagogue inside...

West Papuan independence advocate seeks NZ support against ‘genocide, ecocide’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News West Papuan independence advocate Octovianus Mote is in...

No colonel of truth in Fiji

For a year, journalists in Fiji have had to live with censors posted in the newsroom. Now a new media decree threatens huge fines...

David Robie: Fiji media fights on for free press

By David Robie Editors, broadcasters and publishers are struggling to defend the last vestige of a free press in Fiji in the face of a...

Reporting from the Pacific front line

By Andrea Malcolm Journalists covering the South Pacific face new challenges, as tensions heighten, environmental issues take precedence and economic activity increases. "A decade-long civil war...

John Pilger: The ghosts of Indonesia won’t lie

East Timor's history is repeating itself as Jakarta colludes with the West to crush another resource-rich land -- West Papua. The world is watching...

Remembering Rainbow Warrior: How French President Mitterrand personally approved the attack on Greenpeace 20 years ago

Democracy Now! Twenty years ago on 10 July 1985, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed by French government agents and sunk in Auckland harbour,...

Rainbow Warrior: The Boat and the Bomb

By Greenpeace The Boat and the Bomb is a 2005 documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior...