Monthly Archives: March 2026

Vanuatu national women's football team playing Fiji last week in the FIFA 2027 World Cup Oceania Qualifiers

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Vanuatu's only daily newspaper, the Vanuatu Daily Post, is facing a ban on covering future football league matches after...
The Wedgetail E-7 spy plane being sent by Australia to the Persian Gulf to help the US-Israeli aggression against Iran

COMMENTARY: By Kellie Tranter The US-Israeli attack on Iran has unequivocally demonstrated to the world -- apart, it seems, from Australia's government -- that being...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The United States and Israel have, for decades, pursued the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state. We are now in the...
Exploring the future of Pacific media

By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific reporter Pacific broadcasters say the future of storytelling will depend on how well traditional media adapts to the fast moving...
A "Hands Off Iran" placard at the Auckland rally

Asia Pacific Report A peace advocate urged people in New Zealand today to get behind a "Stop Wars Aotearoa" campaign to oppose the illegal and...
How +972 Magazine reports the censorship in Israeli media coverage of the war on Iran

SPECIAL REPORT: By Oren Ziv of +972 Magazine Since the start of the war with Iran, the Israeli military has imposed strict censorship regulations on...
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the streets of Tehran

Asia Pacific Report The war on Iran has coincided with the release of large troves of US government files that documented the late sex offender...
Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: The US-Israeli war on Iran has entered its 11th day. Its impact is being increasingly felt across the globe. Al Jazeera...
TVNZ 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves host TVNZ's 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has released a new memoir looking back at over 30 years of...
Far-right Israelis and relatives of the soldiers gather in front of a military court building and stage a protest

Asia Pacific Report The Israeli military prosecution has controversially cancelled the indictment of five soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee at the notorious...
Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist For a country with a record of large deforestation projects, Indonesia's current activities in the far southeastern corner of...
US President Trump holds a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House

Only one of these four paths protects humanity — the other three are likely destroy it. ANALYSIS: By Qasim Rashid This week Donald Trump threatened more...
PSNA co-chair John Minto

COMMENTARY: By John Minto I came across this statement from an independent media source this week: “The mainstream media is doing what it always does in...
The Heritage Foundation

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist An American right-wing think tank is proposing a "Pacific Charter" that advocates for a greater United States presence in...
1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver

RNZ Pacific The seventh narco sub in Pacific waters was discovered last week as the wave of methamphetamine becomes the latest crisis challenging the region. 1News...
From Jabotinsky to Netanyahu, Israeli leaders built a doctrine of psychological dominance

Israel’s war on Iran reveals a deeper crisis: the collapse of a psychological doctrine built on fear and invincibility. The Palestine Chronicle reports. ANALYSIS: By...
French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson

By 'Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson says growing global instability is a reminder that Pacific nations must strengthen cooperation within...
Union organiser and socialist Joe Carolan speaking at an anti-war rally

Asia Pacific Report  A professor of US and international politics at University College Dublin, says Washington's objectives in the war against Iran are “slightly different”...
The mainstream media is doing what it always does in wartime: manufacturing consent, sanitizing atrocities and platforming war criminals

Drop Site News Right now, the United States and Israel are continuing their bombardment of Iran. As the confirmed death toll climbs past 1330 and hospitals,...
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (far left) at the inaugural meeting of Trump's so-called Board of Peace

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has increasingly presented himself on the international stage as a mediator and promoter of peace. Yet this global...
Curse of Gold

REVIEW: By Lee Duffield Declining population in West Papua, and critical loss of life through clashes with the Indonesia military raise the question of genocide...
Shattered homes . . . community leaders at Port Moresby's Paga Hill settlement

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist A Papua New Guinean anthropologist has warned that a campaign by authorities to remove communities from informal settlements in...