CLOSE
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Saturday, March 14, 2026
  • Login
  • About Asia Pacific Report
  • Contact
  • EveningReport.nz
  • Pacific Media Centre
Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
    • Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
      Politics

      War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream…

      Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)
      Politics

      ‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

      US President Trump holds a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House
      Politics

      Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only…

      PSNA co-chair John Minto
      Politics

      Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is…

      From Jabotinsky to Netanyahu, Israeli leaders built a doctrine of psychological dominance
      Politics

      Ramzy Baroud: Israel’s greatest weapon was fear – and it’s now…

  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Home Politics

Politics

Featured posts
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
Politics

War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media is telling the people’

APR editor -
March 13, 2026
TVNZ 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
Politics

‘There’s volatile times ahead’ for the Pacific, warns Barbara Dreaver

Far-right Israelis and relatives of the soldiers gather in front of a military court building and stage a protest
Politics

Charges dropped against 5 soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee in Israel’s ‘Guantanamo’

Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)
Politics

‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

US President Trump holds a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House
Politics

Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only one viable

PSNA co-chair John Minto
Politics

Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is...

Pacific Media Watch -
March 12, 2026
0
The Heritage Foundation
Politics

Trump-aligned think tank proposes ‘Pacific Charter’, greater US involvement in the...

APR editor -
March 12, 2026
0
1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
Politics

Journalist Barbara Dreaver’s memoir on three decades reporting from the Pacific

APR editor -
March 12, 2026
0
From Jabotinsky to Netanyahu, Israeli leaders built a doctrine of psychological dominance
Politics

Ramzy Baroud: Israel’s greatest weapon was fear – and it’s now...

APR editor -
March 12, 2026
0
French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson
Politics

French Polynesia urges Pacific to unite amid rising global tensions

APR editor -
March 11, 2026
0
Union organiser and socialist Joe Carolan speaking at an anti-war rally
Politics

US-Israeli war on Iran confusion clouds ‘off-ramp’ hope, says analyst

APR editor -
March 11, 2026
0
The mainstream media is doing what it always does in wartime: manufacturing consent, sanitizing atrocities and platforming war criminals
Politics

The reporting on Iran and Gaza the US-Israel war machine can’t...

Pacific Media Watch -
March 11, 2026
0
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (far left) at the inaugural meeting of Trump's so-called Board of Peace
Politics

West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid

APR editor -
March 10, 2026
0
Curse of Gold
Politics

Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

APR editor -
March 10, 2026
0
Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people
Politics

’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...

APR editor -
March 10, 2026
0
A draft US military training document for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands provides for joint military training exercises
Politics

US military opens environmental review for expanded Marianas training footprint

APR editor -
March 9, 2026
0
Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast
Politics

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and...

APR editor -
March 8, 2026
0
Densely populated parts of Tehran are being pounded by wave after wave of US and Israeli bombs.  Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran was struck on the day of the funerals of he schoolgirls from Minab
Politics

The smallest coffins are always the heaviest. The US-Israeli killing of...

APR editor -
March 8, 2026
0
Protesters wave flags and banners reading “Stop Bombing Iran” and “Stop Bombing the Middle East” as they gather at Victoria Tower Gardens in London
Politics

Thousands of protesters in London demand end to US, Israeli war...

APR editor -
March 8, 2026
0
A mourner attends the funeral of child killed in a strike on a primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran
Politics

165 massacred schoolgirls in Iran – and the silence that exposes...

APR editor -
March 8, 2026
0
“The safety of journalists is non-negotiable. War must under no circumstances hinder the work of the press," says RSF
Politics

War in Iran – journalism in crisis as reporters work amid...

APR editor -
March 6, 2026
0
An oil tanker docked at the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand
Politics

US-Israel’s war on Iran – mostly negative scenarios for the Pacific

APR editor -
March 6, 2026
0
Indigenous West Papuans struggle against the rapacious destruction of rainforest and militarisation of their lands
Politics

Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum...

APR editor -
March 5, 2026
0
Iranians mourning the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Politics

Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster

APR editor -
March 5, 2026
0
Mourners dig graves for the funeral of 170 children killed in a US-Israeli strike on a primary school
Politics

This illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran is also an assault on...

APR editor -
March 4, 2026
0
Community members in Iowa protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran
Politics

New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa

APR editor -
March 4, 2026
0
Pacific Island fuel prices are generally high and volatile
Politics

‘A global energy crisis’ – Fuel price hike looms for Pacific...

APR editor -
March 4, 2026
0
123...259Page 1 of 259

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29
Politics

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

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

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
Politics

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Load more

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Politics

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
Politics

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate
Politics

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
Politics

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
Politics

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

Load more

BEARING WITNESS

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

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
Politics

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

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
Politics

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robievideo
Politics

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration
Politics

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

APJS NEWSFILE

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

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
Politics

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

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
Politics

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)
Politics

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Densely populated parts of Tehran are being pounded by wave after wave of US and Israeli bombs.  Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran was struck on the day of the funerals of he schoolgirls from Minab
Politics

The smallest coffins are always the heaviest. The US-Israeli killing of...

US President Trump holds a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House
Politics

Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only...

Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)
Politics

‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
Politics

Journalist Barbara Dreaver’s memoir on three decades reporting from the Pacific

EDITOR'S PICKS

Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
Politics

War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream...

Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)
Politics

‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

US President Trump holds a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House
Politics

Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only...

PSNA co-chair John Minto
Politics

Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is...

Load more

MOST COMMENTS

Politics

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

Jacinda Ardern
Politics

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

Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
Politics

War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream...

TVNZ 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
Politics

‘There’s volatile times ahead’ for the Pacific, warns Barbara Dreaver

Far-right Israelis and relatives of the soldiers gather in front of a military court building and stage a protest
Politics

Charges dropped against 5 soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee...

Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)
Politics

‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

Editor's Picks

Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream...

March 13, 2026
Producer Victor Mambor (left) and director Dandhy Dwi Laksono of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast)

‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

March 13, 2026
US President Trump holds a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House

Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only...

March 12, 2026
PSNA co-chair John Minto

Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is...

March 12, 2026
From Jabotinsky to Netanyahu, Israeli leaders built a doctrine of psychological dominance

Ramzy Baroud: Israel’s greatest weapon was fear – and it’s now...

March 12, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

A mourner attends the funeral of child killed in a strike on a primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran

165 massacred schoolgirls in Iran – and the silence that exposes...

March 8, 2026
PSNA co-chair John Minto

Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is...

March 12, 2026
Far-right Israelis and relatives of the soldiers gather in front of a military court building and stage a protest

Charges dropped against 5 soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee...

March 13, 2026
A draft US military training document for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands provides for joint military training exercises

US military opens environmental review for expanded Marianas training footprint

March 9, 2026
Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people

’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...

March 10, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8116
  • Politics5849
  • Human Rights4562
  • Syndicate4376
  • Global3794
  • New Zealand3479
  • Indigenous2816
  • RNZ Pacific2518
  • Media2205
  • Pacific Media Watch1893
  • Asia Report1857
  • Democracy1808
  • Security1805
  • Fiji1636
  • Papua New Guinea1625
CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright: Content on Asia Pacific Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact us: newseditor@AsiaPacificReport.nz
FOLLOW US
© Site Copyright 2021 - AsiaPacificReport.nz