Opinion

Cole Martin: The Gaza ceasefire isn’t the end – what six months in Palestine showed me

Returning to Aotearoa after half a year in the occupied West Bank, Cole Martin says a peace deal that fails to address the root causes — and ignores the...

Chris Hedges: Remove curse of Gaza genocide before it becomes the norm

This lecture “Requiem for Gaza” was delivered to a sold out audience at the University of South Australia...

Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and looked away

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Israel and the West pretend they want a real peace in Israel-Palestine yet the Israelis...

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel flipped out and killed 45 Palestinians after running over their own bomb

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone In today’s news, Israel’s stupid genocidal rapists ran over an unexploded ordnance from their own...

‘Not an attempt to militarise our nation’ – Solomon Islands considers own military

By Koroi Hawkins The Solomon Islands government is looking into establishing a defence force which would make it the...

Peter Lusk: Reflections on my mahi with peace researcher Owen Wilkes

The Owen Wilkes book Peacemonger, edited by May Bass and Mark Derby, was due to be launched in Wellington today after earlier launches in...

Why a NZ pilot is a pawn in the West Papua conflict that the world ignores

ANALYSIS: By Camellia Webb-Gannon, University of Wollongong “Phil Mehrtens is the nicest guy, he genuinely is — no one ever had anything bad to say...

Lice Movono: Hopes for the return of press freedom in Fiji

ABC Pacific Veteran Fijian journalist Netani Rika and his wife were resting in their living room when suddenly a Molotov cocktail went crashing through their...

Kayt Davies: AI will take media jobs but will free up time for fun stuff

COMMENTARY: By Kayt Davies in Perth I wasn’t good at French in my final year of high school. My classmates had five years of language...

Nick Young: NZ’s climate floods expose stark truth – people paying price of corporate greed crisis

By Nick Young of Greenpeace My family and I are lucky to have come through it unscathed, but my neighbourhood in Titirangi has been ravaged. Many...

Gavin Ellis: Communication lessons from the Great Flood

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis It is unlikely that the Mayor of Auckland, Wayne Brown, took any lessons from the city’s devastating floods but the rest...