Opinion

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 citizen; and the sovereign should avenge his wrongs, punish the aggressor,...

‘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...

Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal attack

POLITICAL CARTOONS: By Campion Ohasio My name is Campion Ohasio, and I am currently the only political cartoonist in...

Chris Hedges: The politics of cultural despair – and the American nightmare

ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges In the end, the US election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialisation. Despair over the loss of...

New survey finds an alarming tolerance for attacks on the press in the US – particularly among white, Republican men

ANALYSIS: By Julie Posetti and Waqas Ejaz Press freedom is a pillar of American democracy. But political attacks on US-based journalists and news organisations pose...

Caitlin Johnstone: The mainstream Western worldview pretends the Global South doesn’t exist

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Mainstream Western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist. The mainstream Western worldview shrinks the earth...

Jonathan Cook: Israel kills the journalists. Western media kills the truth of genocide in Gaza

Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’. Jonathan Cook...

Martyn Bradbury: My 30 best NZ news sources plus 5 to avoid

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog Folks, the New Zealand media landscape is imploding and that risks terrible damage to our collective...

Filep Karma – a political prisoner who fought racism in West Papua

SPECIAL REPORT: By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta In December 2008, I visited Abepura prison in Jayapura, West Papua, to verify a report sent to the...