Politics

The fall of Saigon 1975 – The Quiet Mutiny and US army falls apart

Part Two of the three-part Solidarity’s Vietnam War series: The folly of imperial war COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Vietnam is a lesson we should have learnt — but never did...

The fall of Saigon 1975: Fifty years of repeating what was forgotten

Part one of a three-part Solidarity series: On the courage to remember COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The first demonstration I...

Open letter to Fijians – ‘why is our country supporting Israel’s heinous crimes in Gaza?’

Pacific Media Watch The Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network today condemned the Fiji government’s failure to stand up for...

Caitlin Johnstone: The Pope has died, and the Palestinian people have lost an important advocate

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Pope Francis has died after using his Easter Sunday address to call for peace in...

Caitlin Johnstone: ‘I want a death that the world will hear’  –  journalist assassinated by Israel for telling the truth

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israel assassinated a photojournalist in Gaza in an airstrike targeting her family’s home on Wednesday,...

Why Israel’s attacks on journalists are backfiring and it is losing its war on truth

ANALYSIS: By Rami G Khouri For the past six months, Israel has put a lot of effort into covering up its genocidal crimes in Gaza....

Caitlin Johnstone: Six months of hell on Earth

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Six months of this now. Half a year. Half a year of genocide apologia. Half a year of the most outrageous lies you...

APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over Israel’s war on Gaza

Pacific Media Watch Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, describing...

Three NZ Arab doctors joining Kia Ora Gaza humanitarian aid mission

Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealand doctors — two Palestinian and one Iraq-born — are planning to join the charity Kia Ora Gaza in its...

Israel’s Al Jazeera ban ‘alarms’ media watchdog on free press stranglehold

Pacific Media Watch The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to...

From Gaza to West Papua, the long struggle for justice and freedom

ANALYSIS: By David Robie On my office wall hangs a framed portrait of Shireen Abu Akleh, the inspiring and celebrated American-Palestinian journalist known across the...