Opinion

Caitlin Johnstone: The Empire has accidentally caused the rebirth of real counterculture in the West

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of Westerners happily being led through a chant of “Death, death to the IDF” at...

The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end of innocence

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Immediately after killing Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland...

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...

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...

Watching the Watchdogs: Israel’s legacy of media deception stumbles

ANALYSIS: By Rami G Khouri In the past three weeks, the Israeli government put on a masterclass on how to use the Western media to...

Israel’s war on Gaza and why the West threatens to unravel the liberal world order

ANALYSIS: By Hina Rabbani Khar Over the past decade and a half, I have attended many meetings and conferences, and met many people in Western...

Jeremy Scahill: Israel has waged a ‘deliberate propaganda campaign’ to justify brutal Gaza assault

DEMOCRACY NOW! Guest Jeremy Scahill The United States and more than a dozen other countries quickly moved to suspend funding to UNRWA, the UN agency...

Caitlin Johnstone: However bad you think Israel is, it’s actually worse

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone So it turns out the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) has been running a Telegram channel featuring homemade snuff films in which...

Waitangi Day 2024: 5 myths and misconceptions that confuse NZ’s 1840 Treaty debate

ANALYSIS: By Paul Moon When it comes to grappling with the Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi, one of the commonest responses is that it...

Pressure must go on Israel to comply with World Court genocide rulings

Aotearoa New Zealand must ramp up pressure on Israel to abide by last month’s International Court of Justice ruling, writes John Minto. COMMENTARY: By John...