Monthly Archives: April 2026

To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank cheque to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest...

RNZ News Severe weather warnings are set to come into place this weekend as Cyclone Vaianu bears down on New Zealand. Coromandel and parts of the...

COMMENTARY: By Robert Reich An hour before Trump said he’d cause the death of a “whole civilisation” if Iran didn’t open the strait of Hormuz,...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Papua New Guinea's Defence Minister Dr Billy Joseph has stepped aside to allow investigations into allegations he interfered...

Pacific Media Watch Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah has been killed in an Israeli drone strike in the Gaza Strip, the Qatari television news channel...

COMMENTARY: By Trita Parsi Yesterday began with Donald Trump issuing genocidal threats against Iran on social media and ended -- just ten hours later --...

COMMENTARY: By Yanis Varoufakis Having launched an illegal, destructive war that brutally struck the entire planet’s economy (and confirmed once again Europe’s combination of irrelevance...

There is a bitter truth that must be spoken before we can talk honestly about what is happening to us now. Michael West Media...

COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, of Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices Vietnam survived Nixon’s madman theory and the world survived the era of mutually assured...

The Murdoch press runs cover for an illegal war by blaming the wrong man entirely, instead of informing the public of facts. Michael West...

OPEN LETTER: By Nureddin Abdurahman to NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters Minister, You are about to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a time...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle If the US-Israelis escalate, the Saudis should fear for the future of the Yanbu pipeline. So should we -- even if you...

By Brett Wilkins Greenpeace International has announced that the MY Arctic Sunrise -- one of its largest vessels -- will be taking part in the...

RNZ News New Zealand's Finance Minister says she has "never felt so dependent on the actions and feelings of one administration and its leaders", as...

The war in Iran is in its second month. A war started by a criminal defendant, a convicted felon, and a blackmail network that...

Asia Pacific Report Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has appealed to Foreign Minister Winston Peters to stress to the Palestine genocide "open wound" in his meeting...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within French Polynesia's ruling party Tavini Huiraatira deepened during Easter weekend with a mass...

RNZ Pacific Reports from West Papua say as many as five people have been shot dead in Dogiyai regency in an alleged retaliatory attack after...

COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames An Easter message. There's no mystery about why wars start. They happen because someone, somewhere, decides that negotiation is more...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle In the coming years, if Iran survives as a sovereign state and retains control over the Strait of Hormuz, countries like...

Asia Pacific Report As tensions rose ahead of Easter, US President Donald Trump publicly criticised Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of “interfering in political...

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand’s government was taken to task today for its lack of a principled stand against Israel’s Gaza genocide and the illegal...