Politics

Israel a ‘lawless, rogue state’ over bombing Syria 800 times and expanding occupation of Golan Heights

Democracy Now! JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Israel is continuing to bomb Syria a week after Syria’s longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power. On Sunday night, Israel dropped what has been...

‘With words they try to jail us’: US universities are not citadels of freedom

COMMENTARY: By Donald Earl Collins Universities in the United States have been especially repressive over the past year. Several...

Why is Israel bombing Syria? – ‘because it can get away with it’, says Bishara

Asia Pacific Report Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, has condemned Israel’s extensive airstrikes on Syrian installations —...

Damascus and Gaza prisoners: Syrians and Palestinians search for ‘disappeared’ loved ones

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Syria, where tens of thousands of people gathered at the...

Eugene Doyle: The dismemberment of Syria is a crime

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle What we are witnessing is not just the end of a regime but quite possibly...

Archive: Pacifications: The erosion of press freedom in Oceania

By David Robie in Arena Magazine Abstract: Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion...

Archive: Crusading journalism in the blood from Edinburgh to Aotearoa [Profile]

"It's ironic that my work is published more outside New Zealand than it is here." (Article first published in 1992). PROFILE: By Murray Horton "My conception...

Tu Galala: Social Change in the Pacific (1992)

Edited by David Robie "The Pacific is in upheaval -- growing poverty, nuclear testing, independence struggles, militarisation and massive social dislocation are pressing, often intractable...

Archive: Rabuka stirs bitter media freedom row

Former Fiji military strongman Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka is now deputy Prime Minister in the civilian interim government. As leader of the 1987 coups d'état,...

Archive: Journalists face grisly threats in Philippines

On average seven journalists have been killed every year in the Philippines since Cory Aquino came to power. David Robie reports on a record...

Archive: How PNG’s Mista Grasruts became Mr Clean

Mista Grasruts (Grassroots), the funniest cartoon character in the South Pacific, is cutting down on his beer, drinking fruit juice and setting a moral...