Politics

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 policy as a “fundamental tenet” of its independent foreign policy in...

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...

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel supporters will be despised for the rest of their lives

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Do Israel’s supporters know it’s over for them? Like, they know they’re going to be...

Former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama jailed over block of USP police probe

RNZ Pacific Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been sentenced to one year in prison, Fiji media are reporting. Bainimarama, alongside suspended Fiji Police Commissioner...

‘We are witnessing an unfolding genocide’ – Israeli historian

Team Zeteo After months of threats and speculation, the Israeli military has officially begun to move into the southern Gazan city of Rafah, sending in...

How an ‘antisemitism hoax’ drowned out the discovery of mass graves in Gaza

Fake Israeli claims keep Western publics focused on "evil" humanitarian aid workers and "evil" anti-war protesters rather than the kind of evil that dares...

Auckland Palestine rally honours Gaza journalists for freedom award

Asia Pacific Report About 500 people honoured Palestinian journalists in the heart of the New Zealand city of Auckland today for their brave coverage of...

Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a terrible price in Israel’s genocidal war

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch Along with the devastating death toll -- now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...

NZ slumps to 19th as RSF says press freedom threatened by global decline

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand has slumped to an unprecedented 19th place in the annual Reporters Without Borders 2024 World Press Freedom Index survey released...