Politics

Caitlin Johnstone: Dare to hope over Palestine and justice

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone At least 100,000 Australians, including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, marched for Gaza across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the pouring rain at a demonstration on Sunday. It...

As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this...

Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague

By Vahefonua Tupola in Suva The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global...

How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world’s highest court. And won

Last week, the UN’s highest court issued a stinging ruling that countries have a legal obligation to limit...

Caitlin Johnstone: It shouldn’t have taken this much for mainstream voices to start speaking up about Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide, as...

PSNA puts New Zealand govt ‘on notice’ over breaches of Genocide Convention claim

Asia Pacific Report A pro-Palestinian advocacy group has put the New Zealand government “on notice” over its alleged complicity with Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza...

Graham Davis: Fiji coup culture – here we go again. More instability?

COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis The Fiji Times totally crossed the line today by using a convicted felon who took part in the 2000 coup to...

Buttu debunks Israeli ‘myths’ about Gaza siege – ‘vital to break it’

Kia Ora Gaza An international lawyer and former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Diana Buttu, says it is a myth that the siege...

Kanaky, Palestine and West Papua – ‘same struggle’, David Robie talks Pacific to Earthwise

Pacific Media Watch Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths of Plains FM96.9 radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent journalist and...

Latest Kiwi crew to join Gaza Freedom Flotilla leaves today to join the Handala

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand activists Youssef Sammour and Rana Hamida have been selected to join the volunteer crew on the international Freedom Flotilla ship...

Defend ‘Pacific voice’ over geopolitics, climate crisis – keep pressure on decolonisation, says David Robie

By Monika Singh in Suva New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) awardee Professor David Robie has called on young journalists to see journalism as a...