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Pro-Palestine and anti-war protesters picket the US Consulate in Auckland during today's "US Invasion Day" rally

Iraq

July 4th anniversary – speakers at NZ rally slam American ‘freedom built on bones of colonised’

July 4, 2026

Protesters in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau

Iraq

The West called it terrorism – Iran called it the architecture of survival

A "dove of peace" in Iran

Iraq

Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their own future

"It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarised police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability"

Iraq

Chris Hedges: We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind

"Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships"

Iraq

Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror

Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son

Iraq

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza....

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2025

A pro-Iranian protest in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, yesterday

Iraq

Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time

June 29, 2025

Iranian and Palestinian flags at a solidarity rally in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today

Iraq

Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not...

June 28, 2025

Iranians hold posters of late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps head Hossein Salami (left), and late Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Mohammad Bagheri (right), who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in recent days

Iraq

Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you...

June 18, 2025

Australian journalist John Pilger addressing a Green Left-hosted public forum in 2014

Iraq

Vale John Pilger, at times a near-lone voice for truth against...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 1, 2024

Husband and wife duo Lauren and Matt Barus perform under the stage name Terrible Sons

Iraq

First-ever recipients of ‘outstanding’ Asian music funding unveiled

July 3, 2023

Journalists who have paid with their lives

Iraq

1668 journalists killed in past 20 years (2003-2022), says RSF

Pacific Media Watch -

January 2, 2023

Iraq

Women-led protests in Iran gather momentum – but will they be...

October 14, 2022

Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Iraq

Step up efforts to free Assange after 3 years in jail,...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 11, 2022

Flashback to Fallujah 2003

Iraq

John Minto: Bucha – the Russian army’s Fallujah. Justice needed for...

April 7, 2022

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

BEARING WITNESS

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

The Realm of New Zealand's four leaders

Cook Islands

New Zealand says its ties with its Realm countries remain strong...

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (right) and MPs "pray for wisdom"

Decolonisation

‘This is a difficult task’: PNG parliament to finally address Bougainville...

You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels

Australia

Caitlin Johnstone: All it takes is one crack in the lie...

New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli

Business

New Caledonia’s President Tukumuli outlines six-month recovery roadmap

EDITOR'S PICKS

All smiles for Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Development

Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge...

The Green Party’s Ricardo Menéndez March (left) and Labour's Phil Twyford

Asia Report

PSNA slams NZ’s ‘uncaring’ lack of signature on global Israeli settlements...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Asia Report

Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau

"Gaza is not for sale" . . . the spray painted slogan at President Trump’s Turnberry golf resort

Asia Report

Palestine Action activists face ‘terror’ charges over Trump golf resort spray-painting

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

All smiles for Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Development

Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge...

The Green Party’s Ricardo Menéndez March (left) and Labour's Phil Twyford

Asia Report

PSNA slams NZ’s ‘uncaring’ lack of signature on global Israeli settlements...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Asia Report

Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau

PSNA's Leeann Wahanui-Peters reading out Te Pāti Māori's statement for co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

Asia Report

NZ left parties condemn Luxon govt on lack of humanity, ‘complicity’...