Opinion

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation

ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges Israel’s weaponisation of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of General...

Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’

Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free...

Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not US bomb-based statecraft

ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle Setting aside any thoughts I may have about theocratic rulers (whether they be in Tel...

Caitlin Johnstone: The fictional mental illness that only affects enemies of the Western empire

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Within the storytelling of Western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental...

Jonathan Cook: Israel’s attack on Iran – the violent new world being born is going to horrify you

Twenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the "birth pangs" of a new Middle East. Now they...

Vanuatu mourns loss of iconic Pacific media pioneer Marc Neil-Jones

OBITUARY: By Terence Malapa in Port Vila Vanuatu’s media community was in mourning today following the death on Monday of Marc Neil-Jones, founder of the...

Caitlin Johnstone: Zionism is strangling free speech in Australia

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone A Palestinian-Australian man has been criminally charged for voicing criticisms of Zionism during a protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He...

The world cannot ignore Trump’s death threat to my people of Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Ahmed Najar ‘To the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD!...

Jonathan Cook: Yes, Trump is vulgar. But the US global shakedown is the same one as ever

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for, it is this: he has decisively stripped away...

‘Our film won an Oscar. But here in West Bank’s Masafer Yatta we’re still being erased.’

DOCUMENTARY: Democracy Now! The Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land won an Oscar for best documentary feature at Sunday’s Academy Awards. The film — recently screened in...

Caitlin Johnstone: Trump sends Netanyahu weapons while talking tough to Zelensky

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israeli media are now reporting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering “a brief resumption” of the onslaught in Gaza in...