Politics

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 headed to the polls. Michael West Media reports. REVIEW: By Aleta Moriarty Israeli...

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...

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

REVIEW: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report I have watched the most disturbing film in my lifetime...

Caitlin Johnstone: Today in imperial recklessness and insanity

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The International Criminal Court has formally issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav...

Kia kaha Lebanon: NZ media only tell half your story of struggle

The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution — for the fourth time — in Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, while...

NZ’s divisive Waitangi bill would ‘render the treaty worthless’ – world reacts to national Hīkoi

RNZ News International media coverage of Aotearoa New Zealand’s national Hīkoi to Parliament has largely focused on the historic size of the turnout in Wellington...

‘It’s a complete and total nightmare’ – aid worker speaks about Israel’s relentless Gaza genocide

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We turn to Israel’s war on Gaza. A special UN...

Caitlin Johnstone: ‘America First’ means stomping out free speech in the US in order to help Israel

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone There is a video of Donald Trump going around where he says  --  while standing in front of an Israeli flag ...

Survey warning on Papua ‘box ticking’ mega estates project goes unheeded

By Stephen Wright for Radio Free Asia Indonesia’s plan to convert over 2 million ha of conservation and indigenous lands into agriculture will cause long-term...