US elections featuring ‘racism, sexism’ pose challenges for Global South
COMMENTARY: By Patrick Gathara
Anger and fear have greeted the return to power of former US strongman Donald Trump, a corrupt far-white extremist coup plotter...
Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’
COMMENTARY: By Robert Reid
The Enemy Within, by Maire Leadbeater is many things. It is:
• A family history
• A social history
• A history of the...
Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza ‘betrayal of true...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: As we continue to look...
Eugene Doyle: Axis of Genocide vs Axis of Resistance. Whose side...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Despite being appalled at my government, I winced as a New Zealander to hear my country described as part of the...
Convicted former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama released from prison
RNZ Pacific
Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been released from prison, only six months into his 12 months sentence, the Fiji Corrections Service...
Paul Buchanan: All in all, Trump’s election is a calamity in...
COMMENTARY: By Paul G Buchanan
Surveying the wreckage of the US elections, here are some observations that have emerged:
Campaigns based on hope do not always...
New survey finds an alarming tolerance for attacks on the press...
ANALYSIS: By Julie Posetti, City St George's, University of London and Waqas Ejaz, University of Oxford
Press freedom is a pillar of American democracy. But...
Pacific nation leaders look forward to strengthened US relations with Trump
RNZ Pacific
The Tongan and Fijian prime ministers are among the first Pacific Island leaders to congratulate US President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump, 78, returned to the...
Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and...
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Over 30 years the French government tested 193 nuclear weapons in Māohi Nui and today...
Gavin Ellis: A day to be gripped by fear – ‘freedom’...
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
This morning, I am afraid. I am very afraid.
I fear that by the time I go to bed democracy in the...
US votes as Gaza burns – Trump ‘declares victory’ in tight...
Asia Pacific Report
As Americans voted for their next president, Israel has continued its attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Republican presidential...
US elections: Cook Islands group warns of climate crisis pushback if...
By Losirene Lacanivalu of the Cook Islands News
The leading Cook Islands environmental lobby group says that if Donald Trump wins the United States elections...
US presidential election holds high stakes for Pacific relations
PMN Pacific Mornings
With Election Day for one of the most consequential United States presidential races in recent history underway, Pasifika communities on both sides...
Republican Kimberlyn King-Hinds wins delegate race in CNMI
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
Kimberlyn King-Hind, from the CNMI Republican Party, won the race for the CNMI's lone...
Donald Trump ‘unfit to lead’ – vote for Harris, warns New...
Pacific Media Watch
The editorial board of The New York Times has demolished Donald Trump in a single paragraph calling on readers to vote for...
Harris will not be a president for marginalised people – in...
COMMENTARY: By Donald Earl Collins
She made it clear in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August, again at her televised debate...
Fijian journalists embrace multimedia landscape for the digital age
By Catrin Gardiner, Queensland University of Technology
In the middle of the Pacific, Fiji journalists are transforming their practice, as newsrooms around Suva are requiring...
West Papuan outcry over Prabowo’s plan to revive transmigration
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura
Just one day after President Prabowo Subianto’s inauguration, a minister announced plans to resume the transmigration programme in eastern Indonesia,...
Palestine advocate condemns NZ silence over Israel’s UN attacks
Asia Pacific Report
The national chair of one of New Zealand's leading pro-Palestine advocacy groups has condemned New Zealand over remaining "totally silent" over Israeli...
USP hosts high-level People’s Daily media delegation from China
By Charlene Lanyon in Suva
A high-level, seven-member delegation from People’s Daily, China's most influential newspaper, has been hosted by the University of the South...
How the US election may affect Pacific Island nations
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
As the US election unfolds, American territories such as the Northern Marianas, American Samoa, and Guam, along with...
Israel kills the journalists. Western media kills the truth of genocide...
Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’. Jonathan Cook...