Opinion

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 order to pressure Hamas to...

Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US

Asia Pacific Report In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Eugene Doyle: Will New Zealand ‘invade’ the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The country’s leading daily newspaper, The New Zealand Herald, screamed out this online headline by a columnist on February 10: “Should...

Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism

COMMENTARY: By Sawsan Madina I watched US President Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week in utter disbelief. Not...

Eugene Doyle: Trump and foolish old men who redraw maps

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle It generally ends badly.  An old tyrant embarks on an ill-considered project that involves redrawing maps. They are heedless to wise counsel...

Caitlin Johnstone: Civil rights are being destroyed throughout the West in service of Israel

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone British journalist Richard Medhurst is once again being persecuted by federal law enforcement in yet another Western nation for his reporting...

Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws independent journalism into chaos

Pacific Media Watch President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including more than $268 million allocated by Congress...