Politics

Haka, waiata welcome for NZ’s Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal at hands of Israeli military

Asia Pacific Report An emotional and inspiring welcome greeted two of Aotearoa New Zealand’s three Gaza Sumud Flotilla humanitarian activists who arrived home today after their ordeal at the hands...

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims brutal abuse ‘justified’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Nadda Osman Activists freed from Israeli detention following the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla have...

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...

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...

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...

From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific

In the West Bank, one in three Palestinians has experienced one or more incarcerations during their life since 1967, or 35 percent of the...

Tahiti’s ‘old lion’ Gaston Flosse, 93, steps down after 52 years in politics

By Patrick Decloitre French Polynesia’s veteran politician, 93-year-old Gaston Flosse, announced last week he is stepping down from his position as president of his Amuitahiraa...

A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook

ANALYSIS: By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the...

Amid decline in mainstream media trust, Pacific Journalism Review remains a beacon

Professor Vijay Naidu’s speech celebrating the launch of the 30th anniversary edition of Pacific Journalism Review at the Pacific International Media Conference in Suva,...