Politics

Caitlin Johnstone: They said the massacres would stop when the hostages were released. They haven’t stopped.

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Last year I banged out an angry rant about the way Israel supporters would yell “release the hostages!” at anyone who talked about the latest massacre...

Trump keeps admitting that he is bought and owned by the world’s richest Israeli

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone It’s bizarre how little mainstream attention is given to the fact that the President of...

After Gaza ceasefire, ‘massive political pressure’ needed to prevent Israel from restarting war

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Israel’s government has approved the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, that includes a...

Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that must be deradicalised

This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as...

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?

ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett  Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike...

Biden apologises to PNG, Blinken being sent for Pacific dialogue

By Lawrence Fong and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby United States President Joe Biden yesterday apologised to Prime Minister James Marape and the people of...

US envoy persuades two of three north Pacific nations to sign defence deals

By Giff Johnson in Majuro Two Pacific nations considered by Washington as crucial in its competition with China for influence in the region have agreed...

After historic apology, Fiji moves to build a reconciled nation

By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva In an emotionally charged “Reconciliation and thanksgiving” service organised by Fiji’s Methodist Church -- the country’s largest Christian denomination --...

OPM leader calls on Biden to take proactive role in ending West Papuan ‘holocaust’

By David Robie Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed to US President Joe Biden for a “proactive role” in ending Indonesia’s “unlawful...

‘Free Jimmy Lai now’ plea by RSF and 100 global media leaders

Pacific Media Watch More than 100 media leaders from around the world have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in signing an unprecedented joint statement expressing...

PNG beefs up security for visit of Biden, Modi, Pacific leaders

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Two American C-17 Globemaster transport planes will bring 20 vehicles to Papua New Guinea in the next few days...