Politics

Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel

Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealanders are being illegally held hostage by the Israeli military after security forces boarded more than 50 boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian...

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international waters

Asia Pacific Report Türkiye has condemned Israel’s intervention against the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, describing it...

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World...

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack on his own citizens

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Whoever uses a citizen ill, indirectly offends the state, which is bound to protect this...

‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A New Zealander who took part in the global flotilla trying...

From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of PNG tribal wars have changed

Warning: This report discusses graphic details of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea. SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide The nauseating stench of dried blood hung in...

More dead children. More BBC ‘news’ channelling Israeli propaganda as its own

Forget a 10-month genocide in Gaza. Only when Israel can exploit the deaths of Syrians living under its military occupation are we supposed to...

A Wall of Shame – but do Pacific Islanders even notice gender deaths?

One report of a five-part series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women that took place in the Marshall Islands last week....

Labour’s Parker critical of weak NZ response to ICJ ruling against Israel over Gaza

By David Robie Former New Zealand attorney-general David Parker spoke on day 295 of Israel’ genocidal war on Gaza in Auckland today, condemning the National-led...

Caitlin Johnstone: US presidential races hide the criminality of the Empire

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The thing I hate about Western electoral politics in general and US presidential races in particular is that they take the...

Legends of NFIP: Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism

Pacific Media Watch An interview with former University of the South Pacific (USP) development studies professor Dr Vijay Naidu, a founding president of the Fiji...