Opinion

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 Press Freedom Index dossier online three days before World Press Freedom...

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack on his own citizens

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Whoever uses a citizen ill, indirectly offends the state, which is bound to protect this...

‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A New Zealander who took part in the global flotilla trying...

‘We’re under attack!’ – the night the Israelis struck the Global Sumud Flotilla

SPECIAL REPORT:  By Eugene Doyle New Zealander Jay O’Connor had finished a long but satisfying day as a crew...

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats and court summons

By Khalia Strong of PMN News Fiji has shot up the world rankings for press freedom but the victory...

The story of the journalist on the Rainbow Warrior’s last voyage, David Robie

In April 2025, several of the Greenpeace crew visited Matauri Bay, Northland, the final resting place of the original flagship, the Rainbow Warrior. This...

Is genocide the new normal? Could Israel and the US destroy Iran?

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Just do it, before it is too late,” US President Donald Trump said. The Western media described Trump’s and Israeli Prime Minister...

Caitlin Johnstone: We are, of course, being lied to about Iran

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Iran and Israel are at war, with the US already intimately involved and likely to become more so. Which of course...

Eugene Doyle: Team Genocide and the West’s war on Iran

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle I have visited Iran twice. Once in June 1980 to witness an unprecedented event: the world’s first Islamic Revolution. It was...

Jonathan Cook: Greta Thunberg tried to shame Western leaders – and found they have no shame

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook in Middle East Eye If you imagined Western politicians and media were finally showing signs of waking up to Israel’s genocide...

Caitlin Johnstone: Staring down the barrel of war with Iran once again

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Well it looks like the US is on the precipice of war with Iran again. US officials are telling the press that...