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Caitlin Johnstone: We think this dystopia is normal like people in abusive relationships think it’s normal

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Westerners who don’t appreciate the extreme dysfunctionality of Western civilisation are like someone in an abusive marriage who hasn’t yet recognised...

John Minto: A prime minister with Gaza ‘blood on his hands’

COMMENTARY: By John Minto Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is correct to condemn Hamas killing Israeli civilians in its attacks on Israel this...

Gaza blockade: Hamas’s tragic attack a response to longterm and escalating, immediate violence

COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, Fred Albert, Sue Berman and Justine Sachs of the Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ) Hamas has responded to Israel’s escalating violence with...

West Papuan, Indonesian youth protest over ‘illegal’ 1962 Rome Agreement

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya The Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) and the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have denounced the Rome Agreement of...

Martyn Bradbury: A sorrowful day for my beautiful city – Matu Tangi Matua Reid’s unspeakable violence

By Martyn Bradbury My daughter came into the kitchen early today to tell me her friends were downtown in Auckland at Britomart, the transit hub...

Duncan Graham: Compromise worked in Aceh – why not West Papua?

There are parallels between Indonesia’s Aceh where an Australian surfer faced a flogging, and West Papua where a New Zealand pilot may be facing...