Politics

Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in Auckland’s downtown Te Komititanga Square today recalled the 1917 colonial “Balfour betrayal” and condemned it for...

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death toll spirals

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a blistering report on media complicity in war crimes as Israelis...

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report In what is probably one of its most shameful acts...

Holding power accountable – a Pacific journalist’s journey through assaults and censorship

Exposing autocracy from military-ruled Fiji to democratic Samoa, journalist Shalveen Chand has faced cell blocks, state censorship and...

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

An edited version of a speech Mary Kostakidis delivered at the Media Diversity Australia Symposium where she spoke...

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel’s innocent oopsie-poopsie medical massacre mistake

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Israeli military changed its story many times about why its forces killed 15 medical workers and then buried them and...

Caitlin Johnstone: Hamas succeeded in exposing the true face of the empire

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone One thing October 7 did accomplish was getting Israel and its allies to show the world their true face. Getting them...

100 children killed or wounded every day since Gaza ceasefire broken

Asia Pacific Report The chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has described Gaza as “no land” for children, as two rallies were held...

Caitlin Johnstone: It’s up to us how we respond to the Gaza holocaust

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone I publish my work in print form every month in a collection called JOHNSTONE magazine. The new edition is now available...

Red Crescent Palestinians massacre: Global rule of law masquerade is over

ANALYSIS: By Joe Gill It is difficult to be shocked after 18 months of Israel‘s genocidal onslaught on Gaza. Brazen crimes against humanity have become the...

From Rongelap to Mejatto – how Rainbow Warrior helped move nuclear refugees

The second of a two-part series on the historic Rongelap evacuation of 300 Marshall islanders from their irradiated atoll with the help of the...