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...

Chris Hedges: The purge of the Deep State and the road to dictatorship

ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges The Trump administration’s war with the Deep State is not a purgative. It is not about freeing us from the tyranny...

Caitlin Johnstone: The US Empire at its most honest

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza that has been turned into an...

Eugene Doyle: Yellow Peril!  Red Peril! ‘We cannot hide anymore’. Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea. 

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The Western media went into overdrive this week to work the laconic Kiwis into a mild frenzy over three Chinese naval...

Eugene Doyle: Human sacrifice – remembering Aaron Bushnell

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Lest we forget. On 25 February 2024 Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active duty US serviceman, self-immolated in front of the Israeli...

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel pushes new atrocity narrative just as ceasefire deadline approaches

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone A new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as...

Open letter: No, Mr Trump, we will not be ‘happy’ and ‘safe’ elsewhere

OPEN LETTER: By Hassan Abo Qamar Dear Mr Trump, I am writing to you as a Palestinian and a survivor of genocide, who was born and...