Monthly Archives: December 2025

Wenceslao Vinzons . . . the local war resistance hero

COMMENTARY: By David Robie Vinzons is a quiet coastal town in the eastern Philippines province of Camarines Norte in Bicol. With a spread out population...
West Papuan supporters raise the Morning Star flag in Leichhardt, Sydney, today as protesters around the world mark the 1 December 1961 "independence" flag-flying day. Image: AWPA

As activist groups around the world observe December 1 -- flag-raising "independence" day for West Papua today marking when the Morning Star flag was...
A West Papuan Morning Star flag being held in defiance of the Indonesian ban in a remote village

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific reporter Four Papuan political prisoners have been sentenced to seven months' imprisonment on treason charges. But a West Papua independence advocate...
New Zealand author David Robie

A transition in global emphasis from "nuclear to climate crisis survivors", plus new geopolitical exposés. REVIEW: By Amit Sarwal of The Australia Today Forty years after...