Monthly Archives: March 2026

Democracy Now host Amy Goodman interviewing economist Dr Laleh Khalili

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Global oil and natural gas prices are soaring after Israel...
Arbitrary detention, ill-treatment and internal displacement of West Papuans

Asia Pacific Report An exiled leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has condemned Indonesia's "cruel and humiliating" arbitrary arrest of 12...
Resigned US National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent

COMMENTARY: By Marcus Alexander In a stunning resignation that has sent shockwaves through Washington, former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent has exposed what many...
Saipan

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands' (CNMI) economic struggles are not just a local...
Repression is a characteristic of Iranian government policy, but not the only characteristic

COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell When Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, was assassinated in the opening stages of the US-Israeli war against Iran, I...
Fiji and Israel established diplomatic relations in 1970

RNZ Pacific High-ranking Fiji government ministers have formally approved plans for the establishment of resident embassies for Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in...
An appeal advertisement for Jewish National Fund Australia

The Labor government has told the Senate that Australian charities don’t have to comply with international law, nor will they be compelled. Michael West...
China and the Solomon Islands media

SPECIAL REPORT: Reporters Without Borders Since the Solomon Islands established diplomatic relations with China in 2019, the Pacific country has become a strategic arena for...
In October 2025, Israeli forces kidnapped the crew members of 41 aid ships near Gaza

By Joshua Carroll A global coalition of activists is preparing to launch the largest ever flotilla of aid ships aimed at breaking Israel’s illegal blockade...
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The Solomon Islands Prime Minister is refusing to convene Parliament next week amid a takeover bid by government...
The Strait of Hormuz

ANALYSIS: By Kevork Almassian When the Strait of Hormuz closes, you don’t need to be a military analyst to understand what just happened. You only...
Opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins (left) receives the Iran war petition from Greenpeace executive director Dr Russel Norman

Greenpeace Aotearoa Thousands of people have signed a petition demanding New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon stand up and condemn the illegal attacks on Iran...
"Don't mine the moana"

COMMENTARY: By Niamh O'Flynn To most of us in Aotearoa, the current illegal war in Iran feels distant. We see it in our news feeds,...
Iranian missile damage in central Israel at an undisclosed location

INTERVIEW: C.J. Polychroniou and Idan Landau Israel’s war on Iran is a direct result of a political culture that depends for survival upon a permanent...

Pacific Media Watch Western legacy media is failing to tell the truth on the US-Israeli war on Iran, says a leading US academic and analyst. "Mass...
MCPNG president Neville Choi

Pacific Media Watch The United Nations in Papua New Guinea has met the leadership of the Media Council of PNG to advance collaboration in support...
"Journalists must use their imagination to exercise empathy in reporting.

COMMENTARY: By Saige England Every week, health prevailing, I march with our Palestinian friends and their supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand. And my country is...
With censorship and propaganda shaping coverage of the war on Iran on all sides, news audiences are having to navigate a confused and often misleading maze of information

Pacific Media Watch As the US and Israel battle to control the narrative of their war against Iran, their messaging gets harder to defend, reports...
Iranian Israeli political activist and editor Orly Noy

Democracy Now! Democracy Now! speaks with Iranian Israeli political activist Orly Noy, editor of the Hebrew-language news site Local Call, about her recent article, “Longing...
Iran attacked two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz

RNZ Pacific Pacific Island governments are urging their citizens not to panic about the supply of fuels amid the conflict in the Middle East between...
"A bright future." Graphic: Mr Fish

The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an...
South Africa's genocide in Gaza case against Israel at the ICJ

Asia Pacific Report The United States and Fiji have filed separate declarations of intervention in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court...