Yearly Archives: 2026
Critics say weak NZ response over US-Israel attacks on Iran a ‘disgrace’
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand's weak response to the unprovoked and illegal United States and Israel attacks on Iran at the weekend has stirred strong...
Trump starts major ‘regime-change’ war with Iran, serving neoconservatism and Israel
ANALYSIS: By Glenn Greenwald
For decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American neoconservatives have dreamed of only one foreign policy goal -- having the...
Marilyn Garson: Waking up to terror in this new world of impunity
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson
Look around this morning.
America and Israel, nuclear-armed states have attacked Iran.
Israel, which has never declared its nuclear stockpiles nor its borders,...
Pesta Babi – ‘Pig Feast’ . . . a vivid new film exposing Papua’s...
REVIEW: Jubi Media
Yasinta Moiwend was startled when, on a quiet morning, a massive ship docked at her village pier in West Papua.
The vessel carried...
NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran
Asia Pacific Report
Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in central Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau today were highly critical of the erosion of New Zealand’s once proud...
Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut: An extraordinary sense of truth in an ailing society
OBITUARY: By Joel Paredes
Having known the Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut, who died yesterday aged 69, for nearly half a century, I feel that looking...
‘We warned you,’ says Iran’s national security chief after Israel-US attacks
Asia Pacific Report
"We warned you," says Iran’s national security commission head after Israel-US missiles attacks on the capital Tehran and other cities.
Al Jazeera reports...
Cuban ambassador denounces US aggression and violations of international law
INTERVIEW: By Eugene Doyle
This is a moment of great peril for the small Caribbean nation of Cuba. Nothing less than its sovereignty is on...
Local plumber Hannah Spencer beats both Reform and Labour to win UK byelection
Novara Media
In a spectacular triumph, Britain's Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton byelection in Greater Manchester.
Local plumber Hannah Spencer has now become...
Amnesty slams global impunity fueling Israel’s illegal West Bank annexation measures
Amnesty International
Amnesty International has condemned Israeli authorities over unleashing a series of unlawful measures deliberately designed to dispossess Palestinians in the occupied West Bank...
Duterte’s ICC pre-trial in The Hague: What prosecution, victims, defence say about the drug...
Did ex-president Rodrigo Duterte’s actions merit an ICC trial? Here is how the prosecution, the victims’ representatives, and the defence are presenting their cases...
Inmates in critical condition after alleged attack by PNG corrections officers
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
A number of remand prisoners at Papua New Guinea's Bomana Prison have been injured in a confrontation with...
Fiji critic’s whistleblower case escalates anti-corruption crisis
By Christine Rovoi of PMN News
The arrest and charging of British-Fijian publisher Charlie Charters has pushed Fiji’s anti-corruption watchdog into fresh controversy.
Charters' arrest by...
French Senate vote endorses New Caledonia’s future status
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Senators have endorsed a Constitutional amendment text regarding New Caledonia's future political status.
Two-hundred and fifteen...
The Palestine Chronicle: Roger Fowler’s legacy – a Palestinian tribute
The Palestine Chronicle
New Zealand activist Roger Fowler, a longtime Gaza solidarity organiser and Palestine Chronicle contributor, who died last Saturday, leaves a legacy of...
West Papuan filmmakers expose Merauke rainforest destruction in ‘siege’ doco
Pacific Media Watch
A world premiere of a new documentary revealing the devastation of rainforest in the southeastern part of West Papua is one of...
Fiji PM Rabuka stands by anti-corruption body after arrest of critic
RNZ Pacific
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says his government will not interfere with the work of the country's anti-corruption body following the latest turn...
Roger Fowler’s legacy – and the Polynesian Panthers connection
Polynesian Panther Party Legacy Trust
The Polynesian Panthers met Roger Fowler in the early 1970s when Ponsonby was home to the largest urban Pacific population...
How a US-Israeli attack on Iran could crash UK, German, NZ and Australian economies
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
If Israel and the US attack Iran, the cosy worlds of Europe, Australia and New Zealand could be swept up in...
Arrest and charges against British-Fijian national spark free speech concerns
RNZ Pacific
The arrest and detention of a dual Fijian and British national by Fiji's anti-corruption agency over the weekend has sparked concerns about freedom...
Roger Fowler, a legend of the Aotearoa solidarity movement, dies at 77
OBITUARY: By David Robie
Roger Norman Fowler: 12 September 1948 – 21 February 2026
Roger Fowler, an activist legend of social justice solidarity movements from Bastion...
Climate-related migration: Is New Zealand living up to the ‘Pacific family’ rhetoric?
SPECIAL REPORT: By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist
Last week, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said Aotearoa's immigration settings were "no way to...































