Yearly Archives: 2026

"You blow up a girls' school."

COMMENTARY: By Tucker Carlson So, the whole Iran war, like so much of life, has turned out to be exactly the opposite of what you...
The whistleblowing soldiers of 1967 admitted their job was not to “fight the enemy” – or “eradicate the terrorists”, as Israeli leaders now term it. It was to kill and terrorise Palestinian civilians

In October 2023, Israel found an excuse to breathe new life into an old story of slaughter and expulsion. The chief differences this time...
Political commentator appointed The Post chief editor Matthew Hooton

ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock of RNZ Mediawatch Change is a constant in the tough world of digital-age news media these days and many old ways...
An educational in-depth view of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monumen

By Mark Rabago of RNZ Pacific A conservation group has condemned Donald Trump's decision to allow commercial fishing in parts of the Mariana Trench Marine...
Wellington writer Eugene Doyle

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Anti-War Aotearoa and Greenpeace are calling on Kiwis to join the March for Peace on June 20 in Auckland. I will...
Norwegian physician Dr Mads Gilbert

INTERVIEW: Dr Myriam François talks to Dr Mads Gilbert on The Tea Eight months on from the so-called "ceasefire" in Gaza, the headlines may have...
Trillionaire Elon Musk (right) hobnobbing with billionaires

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone It’s so pathetic watching Elon Musk’s groveling bootlickers fall all over themselves on social media to defend their favorite oligarch from...
The lack of proportionality is the key

COMMENTARY: By Nuri Vitacchi The US on Wednesday night destroyed civilian water utilities serving 20,000 Iranian people. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian...
China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence

COMMENTARY: By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva The contest for influence in the Pacific is no longer confined to diplomacy, aid projects or infrastructure. Increasingly, it is...
Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's political parties are now in marching order to contest the upcoming local provincial elections scheduled to be...
Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built

Amnesty International What is happening right now is erasure of humans, trees and stones, and anything that is Palestinian, by settlers under the support...
World Cup BDS graphic

By Stephanie Westbrook of PACBI As FIFA Men’s World Cup begins, millions around the world gather to cheer for their favorite teams. Let’s use the occasion...
Tanna's Chief Peter Marcel

In the great expanse of oceans, a number of small, remote islands are having their moment in the spotlight. From the Chagos islands to...
Charges dropped for FLNKS president Christian Téin

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific A recent ruling by a French court to drop all charges against pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin and 13...
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

COMMENTARY: By Mark Naglazas Trying to get my head around Pete Hegseth’s bonkers, deeply offensive D-Day memorial speech in which the US Secretary of War...
Fiji police on duty

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Warning: This story contains detailed accounts of alleged police and military brutality, including torture and sexual assault. The Fiji Police...
Kanaky, Palestinian and West Papua flags flying at the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre last week during a protest against the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Suva

Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand policy research and advocacy group released a detailed blueprint today for a fresh "independent" Te Tiriti and Pacific-based approach...
An Iran-China freight train

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean In 1904, a British geographer named Halford Mackinder stood before the Royal Geographical Society in London and delivered what would become...
A "No more complicity with war crimes" banner at a "Stop Wars" march at Devonport

COMMENTARY: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa Today the US and/or Israel have been attacking Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Venezuela. The US is also strangling Cuba with...
Author May Pik

May Pik is a Jewish woman now living in Aotearoa. She gave this perspective on growing up in Israel and why she moved to...
Government field officers assess the condition of communities and collapsed structures in General Santos City

By RNZ Pacific reporters and Mark Rabago The US Tsunami Warning Centre has issued advisories for parts of the Pacific following a massive earthquake off...
Germany defeated in the UN Security Council vote

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Germany learnt to its huge cost and embarrassment last week that supporting Israel’s genocidal operations in Gaza and elsewhere in the...