Opinion

Holding power accountable – a Pacific journalist’s journey through assaults and censorship

Exposing autocracy from military-ruled Fiji to democratic Samoa, journalist Shalveen Chand has faced cell blocks, state censorship and physical assaults for holding Pacific powers accountable. Now joining the Cook...

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

An edited version of a speech Mary Kostakidis delivered at the Media Diversity Australia Symposium where she spoke...

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

REVIEW: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report I have watched the most disturbing film in my lifetime...

A reminder of what is possible in community empowerment – ‘survival pending revolution’

This book launch speech was delivered today for Ponsonby People’s Union: At the Frontline of Community Activism in...

Palestinian researcher exposes Israel’s list of so-called ‘terrorist’ journalists slain in Gaza as smear

COMMENTARY: By Stephen Prager Seeking to discredit reports of its unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza, the Israel Defense...

Up close and friendly with Vietnam’s war resistance Củ Chi tunnels

COMMENTARY: By David Robie in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam’s famous Củ Chi tunnel network was on our bucket list for years. For me, it was...

Ramzy Baroud: Itamar Ben-Gvir and the acceleration of the collapse of Israel

ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed on August 26 to build a synagogue inside the Muslim holy site Al-Haram Al-Sharif. Ben-Gvir,...

West Papuan independence advocate seeks NZ support against ‘genocide, ecocide’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News West Papuan independence advocate Octovianus Mote is in Aotearoa New Zealand to win support...

Jonathan Cook: Israeli torture chambers aren’t new. They are what provoked the violence of October 7

Those who can’t connect barbaric abuses of Palestinians by Israelis — generation after generation — and the crimes of October 7, have little understanding...

Caitlin Johnstone: ‘Why should I care about Gaza?’

We can’t keep living like this. Our species cannot continue living on this planet as though what happens to other people and other organisms...

John Menadue: America is the most violent, aggressive country in the world

Of the international intelligence information that comes to Australian agencies from the Five Eyes, 90 percent comes from the CIA and related US intelligence...