Monthly Archives: March 2026
Israel caught in a permanent state of war mindset – peace is taboo
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...
Western media failing to tell truth about war on Iran, says academic
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 and UN hold media freedom talks in wake of attacks on women journalists
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...
Saige England: Journalists must stand up and report with the moral courage of abolitionists
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...
War on Iran: Propaganda in overdrive as Trump’s war spirals out of control
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...
As Israel keeps bombing Iran, Palestinians face growing violence in West Bank
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...
Pacific governments warn against panic buying as war on Iran threatens fuel supply
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...
Chris Hedges: The world according to Gaza – it’s only the start
The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an...
US, Fiji intervene for Israel in South Africa’s Gaza genocide case at 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...
Vanuatu newspaper faces football coverage ban after ‘lesbianism’ headline
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...
War on Iran: Australia should put trust in its neighbours not a modern Titanic...
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...
Eugene Doyle: Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States along with Iran?
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...
Pacific broadcasters rethink news delivery in digital age
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...
From the gauntlet to stopping the Iran war, Carolan makes action plea
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 Israel is censoring damage reporting about 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...
US War Secretary taunts Iranian leadership for ‘hiding’ while they are defiant on street...
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...
War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media is telling...
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...
‘There’s volatile times ahead’ for the Pacific, warns 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...
Charges dropped against 5 soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee in Israel’s ‘Guantanamo’
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...
‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers
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...
Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only one viable
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...
Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is in the Western...
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...


































