Tag: democracy
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...
Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal attack
POLITICAL CARTOONS: By Campion Ohasio
My name is Campion Ohasio, and I am currently the only political cartoonist in Solomon Islands.
In recent weeks, I have...
Kalafi Moala: My view of tyrannical Trump
COMMENTARY: By Kalafi Moala
As a journalist based in Tonga, I have chosen mostly to refrain from giving a view of US President Donald Trump,...
Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws independent journalism into chaos
Pacific Media Watch
President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including more than $268 million allocated by Congress...
An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia over political critics
REVIEW: By David Robie
Four months ago, a group of lawyers in Aotearoa New Zealand called for a little reported inquiry into New Zealand spy...
Chris Hedges: The politics of cultural despair – and the American nightmare
ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges
In the end, the US election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialisation. Despair over the loss of...