Politics

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation

ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges Israel’s weaponisation of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of General...

Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’

Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free...

Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not US bomb-based statecraft

ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle Setting aside any thoughts I may have about theocratic rulers (whether they be in Tel...

Caitlin Johnstone: The fictional mental illness that only affects enemies of the Western empire

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Within the storytelling of Western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental...

Jonathan Cook: Israel’s attack on Iran – the violent new world being born is going to horrify you

Twenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the "birth pangs" of a new Middle East. Now they...

Why Israel’s ‘humane’ propaganda is such a sinister facade

COMMENTARY: By Cole Martin in Occupied Bethlehem Many people have been closely following the journey this week of the Madleen, a small humanitarian yacht seeking...

New Zealand’s foreign policy stance on Palestine lacks transparency

COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs It is difficult to understand what sits behind the New Zealand government’s unwillingness to sanction, or threaten to sanction, the Israeli...

Bougainville wants independence. China’s support for a controversial mine could pave the way

ANALYSIS: By Anna-Karina Hermkens Bougainville, an autonomous archipelago currently part of Papua New Guinea, is determined to become the world’s newest country. To support this process,...

Jeremy Rose: Mister Netanyahu have you no sense of decency?

COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose The word antisemitism has become so debased that depending on who is using it I might well take it as a...

Marshall Islands nuclear legacy: report highlights lack of health research

By Giff Johnson in Majuro A new report on the United States nuclear weapons testing legacy in the Marshall Islands highlights the lack of studies...

Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education given airing

Pacific Media Watch Taieri MP Ingrid Leary reflected on her years in Fiji as a television journalist and media educator at a Fiji Centre function...