Politics

Bougainville wants independence. China’s support for a controversial mine could pave the way

ANALYSIS: By Anna-Karina Hermkens Bougainville, an autonomous archipelago currently part of Papua New Guinea, is determined to become the world’s newest country. To support this process, it’s offering foreign investors access...

Jeremy Rose: Mister Netanyahu have you no sense of decency?

COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose The word antisemitism has become so debased that depending on who is using it I...

Marshall Islands nuclear legacy: report highlights lack of health research

By Giff Johnson in Majuro A new report on the United States nuclear weapons testing legacy in the Marshall...

Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education given airing

Pacific Media Watch Taieri MP Ingrid Leary reflected on her years in Fiji as a television journalist and media...

Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle I want to share a writer’s journey — of living and writing through the Genocide. ...

Caitlin Johnstone: ‘I want a death that the world will hear’  –  journalist assassinated by Israel for telling the truth

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israel assassinated a photojournalist in Gaza in an airstrike targeting her family’s home on Wednesday, the day after it was announced...

Ben Bohane: Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door

ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates...

John Hobbs: Why NZ govt should back Greens’ sanctions bill on Israel over Gaza genocide

COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs In the absence of any measures taken by the New Zealand government to respond to the genocide being committed by Israel...

Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad daylight

EDITORIAL: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal US President Donald Trump and his team is pursuing a white man’s racist agenda that...

Caitlin Johnstone: Every day the Gaza holocaust continues, the empire tells the truth about itself

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Every day the Gaza holocaust continues, the Western empire tells the truth about itself. The US government is telling you the truth...

New Zealand’s humanity – does it include all of us, or only for some?

COMMENTARY: By Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab “Wherever Palestinians have control is barbaric.” These were the words from New Zealand’s Chief Human Rights Commissioner Stephen Rainbow. During a meeting...