Monthly Archives: March 2026
Trump-aligned think tank proposes ‘Pacific Charter’, greater US involvement in the region
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...
Journalist Barbara Dreaver’s memoir on three decades reporting from the Pacific
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.
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Ramzy Baroud: Israel’s greatest weapon was fear – and it’s now failing
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 urges Pacific to unite amid rising global tensions
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...
US-Israeli war on Iran confusion clouds ‘off-ramp’ hope, says analyst
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 reporting on Iran and Gaza the US-Israel war machine can’t control
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,...
West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid
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...
Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua
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...
Academic’s warning over PNG settlement evictions – doomed to failure?
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...
’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of Iranian, Lebanese kids
Zahra Sultana has mocked US and Israeli pretensions, saying in a BBC interview on Sunday -- International Women’s Day -- that the girls in...
US military opens environmental review for expanded Marianas training footprint
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
The United States military has begun the formal environmental review process for the continuation...
West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses...
REVIEW: Asia Pacific Report
West Papuan diaspora, academics, students and community activists warmly applauded the screening of the new investigative documentary, Pesta Babi (Pig Feast):...
The smallest coffins are always the heaviest. The US-Israeli killing of children must be...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Three more schools and a major hospital have been bombed in Iran and more in Lebanon by the US-Israeli military, all...
Thousands of protesters in London demand end to US, Israeli war on Iran
Thousands of anti-war demonstrators yesterday marched through central London, calling for an immediate halt to US and Israeli military operations against Iran and an...
165 massacred schoolgirls in Iran – and the silence that exposes the West’s moral...
ANALYSIS: By Hana Saada
In an era when images can circle the globe in seconds and newsrooms claim to uphold universal humanitarian principles; one might...
War in Iran – journalism in crisis as reporters work amid bombs, says RSF
Pacific Media Watch
Journalists in Iran have been working amid hostile air strikes for almost a week since the start of the US-Israeli offensive while...
US-Israel’s war on Iran – mostly negative scenarios for the Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Stephen Howes and Rubayat Chowdhury
There is no doubt that the war Israel and the United States have launched against Iran will have...
Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum weekend
Asia Pacific Report
A new documentary film on the devastating "ecocide" happening in West Papua will be screened as a world premiere at a weekend...
‘I know she’d be really proud’ – NZ’s first Pasifika heritage All Blacks coach
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
The All Blacks have their first coach of Pasifika heritage.
Dave Rennie has been given the job, replacing the ousted...
Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster
It’s only Day Five of the war, but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US-Israeli invasion of Iran is evident...
This illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran is also an assault on the United Nations
The US objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the UN and...
New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa
Peace Movement Aotearoa
"One can oppose a hateful regime and, at the same time, oppose an unjustified and dangerous military intervention," says Spanish Prime Minister...
