Opinion

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international waters

Asia Pacific Report Türkiye has condemned Israel’s intervention against the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, describing it as “a new act of piracy”, reports TRT World News. In a...

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World...

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...

‘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...

Caitlin Johnstone: They’re really going to try to lay all the blame for Gaza on Netanyahu

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone They’re really going to try to pin all the blame for the incineration of Gaza on Benjamin Netanyahu so that nothing...

Mehdi Hasan on genocide in Gaza and the silencing of Palestinian voices in media

Democracy Now! Acclaimed journalist Mehdi Hasan joins Democracy Now! to discuss US media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza and how the war is...

Māori advocate Tina Ngata hails ‘overwhelming’ indigenous support for Palestine

Asia Pacific Report Indigenous support for Palestine around the world has been overwhelming — and Aotearoa New Zealand is no exception, says a leading Māori...

‘Who is the superpower? The US or Israel?’ Al Jazeera on the absurdity of airdrops in Gaza

Pacific Media Watch The United States’ airdrops of aid into Gaza are a textbook case of cognitive dissonance on the part of the US administration...

Gaza’s agony – the hinge point in the loss of Western dominance

The scale of deliberate Israeli cruelty against the Gazan people over the past five months is still difficult for Australians to absorb. But internationally,...

Question for PNG foreign minister Tkatchenko – what does the defence pact mean for West Papua?

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have formally ratified a defence agreement a decade after its initial signing. PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko...