Opinion

Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that must be deradicalised

This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism. Jonathan Cook reflects on Israel’s...

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?

ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett  Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike...

250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli killing of journalists in Gaza

Reporters Without Borders In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement...

Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today

Pacific Media Watch Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes...

NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists

Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister...

Caitlin Johnstone: When the imperial media report on an Israeli massacre

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone In what many are now calling the Flour Massacre, at least 112 Gazans were killed and hundreds more injured after Israeli...

John Minto: Why New Zealand should not designate Hamas a terrorist group

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The New Zealand government is shortly to announce whether it will designate Hamas a “terrorist” group in response to the October...

Caitlin Johnstone: The most American thing that has ever happened

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone A man set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington today. He said he did it in protest of...

Post-Courier: Stop PNG’s booming death and destruction industry

EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier Some people are literally making a killing in Enga. Yes, they really are. Hired gunmen are getting rich by the day and picking...

Caitlin Johnstone: Nobody who gets Gaza wrong is worth listening to

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone I saw a comment from an Israel defender saying “You just lack the intellect to comprehend the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian...

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...