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...

Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a terrible price in Israel’s genocidal war

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch Along with the devastating death toll -- now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...

OPM’s Bomanak accuses UN of failing to uphold decolonisation role over West Papua

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan resistance leader has condemned the United Nations role in allowing Indonesia to “integrate” the Melanesian Pacific region in what...

Caitlin Johnstone: CNN compares campus protesters to Nazis in stunning propaganda segment

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone In one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life, CNN’s Dana Bash launched into a...

Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Activists blocked from sailing to Gaza but vow to keep trying to break siege

DEMOCRACY NOW! With Amy Goodman AMY GOODMAN: As the official death toll in Gaza nears 35,000, ceasefire talks are continuing this week with Hamas officials...

New Koi Tū future report calls for overhaul of outdated NZ mediascape to restore trust

Koi Tū New Zealand cannot sit back and see the collapse of its Fourth Estate, the director of Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures,...

27 years in captivity – free Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle He is the most popular Palestinian leader alive today — and yet few people in the West even know his...