Politics

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel pushes new atrocity narrative just as ceasefire deadline approaches

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone A new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as an important deadline for ceasefire...

Open letter: No, Mr Trump, we will not be ‘happy’ and ‘safe’ elsewhere

OPEN LETTER: By Hassan Abo Qamar Dear Mr Trump, I am writing to you as a Palestinian and a survivor...

Eugene Doyle: Will New Zealand ‘invade’ the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The country’s leading daily newspaper, The New Zealand Herald, screamed out this online headline by...

Chris Hedges: The US empire self-destructs

The United States shares the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military...

Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism

COMMENTARY: By Sawsan Madina I watched US President Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Tikoduadua asks Fiji’s police chief to resign over ‘matters of confidence’

Asia Pacific Report Fiji’s Minister for Home Affairs and Immigration has invited the Commissioner of Police to resign, citing concerns on matters of confidence in...

Why a royal princess from the Pacific is living in Arkansas

Pacific Media Watch The US tested 67 nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands, tricking the people who lived on Bikini Atoll to leave their homeland...

Fiji lawyer Imrana Jalal’s warning: ‘No victimisation or targeted prosecutions’

By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji lawyer and former human rights activist Imrana Jalal has offered a “warning” to her motherland that should people be...

Professor thrilled over USP return – Fiji to pay $90m university debt

By Felix Chaudhary in Suva Exiled University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia says he is thrilled at the prospect of returning to...

Exiled USP chief, Dr Lal now free to enter Fiji, says Rabuka

By Josefa Babitu in Suva The greenlight has been given to University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, and Dr Padma Lal, to...

Benny Wenda: A West Papuan Christmas message

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: By Benny Wenda As 2022 draws to a close, I would like to thank everyone who has supported the West Papuan struggle this...