Politics

Protesters condemn Luxon govt for failing to condemn illegal war on Iran

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report New Zealand’s government was taken to task today for its lack of a principled stand against Israel’s Gaza genocide and the illegal and unprovoked...

President Trump, don’t listen to your sycophants on Iran, this isn’t reality TV

COMMENTARY: By Robert Reich Mr Trump, may I have a word? Bad enough for you to insist — in the...

How the US, Israel and Iran are controlling their media narratives

COMMENTARY: By Majdoline Al-Shammouri in Beirut In the ongoing United States and Israel war on Iran, it appears that...

Cuban envoy makes strong plea for his country defying US blockade

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report Cuba’s Ambassador to New Zealand, Luis Morejón Rodríguez, last night made a passionate...

Corruption reporting project mourns the loss of Dan McGarry, pioneering Pacific editor and investigative journalist

OBITUARY: By Aubrey Belford, Australia and South Pacific regional editor of OCCRP The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project...

Chris Hedges: The purge of the Deep State and the road to dictatorship

ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges The Trump administration’s war with the Deep State is not a purgative. It is not about freeing us from the tyranny...

Caitlin Johnstone: The US Empire at its most honest

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza that has been turned into an...

Eugene Doyle: Yellow Peril!  Red Peril! ‘We cannot hide anymore’. Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea. 

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The Western media went into overdrive this week to work the laconic Kiwis into a mild frenzy over three Chinese naval...

Eugene Doyle: Human sacrifice – remembering Aaron Bushnell

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Lest we forget. On 25 February 2024 Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active duty US serviceman, self-immolated in front of the Israeli...

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...

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 of genocide, who was born and...