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...

Fiji’s position over Israeli war on Gaza – international blunder or a domestic strategy?

SPECIAL REPORT: By Richard Naidu, editor of Islands Business South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been described...

As support for Gaza goes mainstream, don’t let the Empire co-opt the movement

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Opposition to the slaughter in Gaza appears to be getting more mainstream, which is obviously great, but when political impulses go...

Reb Halabi: Witness to horror upon horror in Gaza, I scream underwater

COMMENTARY: By Reb Halabi I recently heard the British-Palestinian Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah tell of the horrors of Israel’s total destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and healthcare...

PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media 2024 conference

Pacific Media Watch Pacific Journalism Review, the Pacific and New Zealand’s only specialist media research journal, is celebrating 30 years of publishing this year —...

Why Israel’s attacks on journalists are backfiring and it is losing its war on truth

ANALYSIS: By Rami G Khouri For the past six months, Israel has put a lot of effort into covering up its genocidal crimes in Gaza....

Caitlin Johnstone: Six months of hell on Earth

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Six months of this now. Half a year. Half a year of genocide apologia. Half a year of the most outrageous lies you...