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: The most American thing that has ever happened

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone A man set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington today. He said he did it in protest of...

Gaza media voices: Who are Bisan, Hind Khoudary, Motaz and Plestia?

Young women Bisan Owda, Hind Khudary, Plestia Alaqad -- and Motaz Azaiza, a young man also from Gaza -- are among a new generation...

Kia Ora Gaza organiser condemns ‘open genocide’ in Gaza Strip

While telling today’s Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland about the “good news” of creative humanitarian aid plans to help Palestinians amid the War on...

Leila Khaled: ‘Free Palestine’ has become a slogan of the peoples of the world

GREEN-LEFT EXCLUSIVE: Leila Khaled talks to Peter Boyle Leila Khaled is an iconic Palestinian revolutionary activist. A famous mural of her (pictured above) adorns an...

Tuvalu residents fight for their home in face of worsening tides and climate crisis

By Monika Singh of Wansolwara The fourth smallest country in the world with a population of just over 11,000 people —  Tuvalu — fears being...

Post-Courier: Stop PNG’s booming death and destruction industry

EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier Some people are literally making a killing in Enga. Yes, they really are. Hired gunmen are getting rich by the day and picking...