Politics

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  --  that in his first...

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...

NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill ‘inviting civil war’, says former PM Shipley

RNZ Saturday Morning A former New Zealand prime minister, Dame Jenny Shipley, has warned the ACT Party is “inviting...

NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and rules of Parliament

BACKGROUNDER: By Lillian Hanly, Craig McCulloch and Te Manu Korihi Te Pāti Māori’s extraordinary display of protest — interrupting...

Caitlin Johnstone: To be pro-Israel is to be pro-war

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The way raw video evidence debunked the “Amsterdam pogrom” narrative in real time in full...

Mediawatch: Kiingi Tuheitia’s tangihanga – epic broadcast marks new epoch for te ao Māori

RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock “Anticipation is growing. The warriors are ready. They’re preparing themselves. The paddlers are already on their waka,” Scotty Morrison, alongside...

John Menadue: America is the most violent, aggressive country in the world

Of the international intelligence information that comes to Australian agencies from the Five Eyes, 90 percent comes from the CIA and related US intelligence...

Jonathan Cook: Israel is in a death spiral – who will it take down with it?

Israel’s zealots are ignoring the pleas of the top brass. They want to widen the circle of war, whatever the consequences. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook There...

NZ rallies protest over Israeli killings of children as world condemns latest school ‘bloody massacre’

Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a large rally in the heart of New Zealand’s largest city today strongly condemned Israel’s indiscriminate killing of Palestinian children...

Jonathan Cook: Nothing’s changed since 1948 – except now Israel’s excuses don’t work

"We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin." COMMENTARY:...

Call for collective global action over ‘horrific’ Israeli crimes against Palestinian prisoners

COMMENTARY: By Qadura Fares On August 3, last Saturday, prisoner rights institutions and Palestinians all around the world were standing in solidarity with Gaza and...