Tag: Donald Trump
Gaza peacekeeping deployment – five clear questions Fiji cannot ignore
ANALYSIS: By Jim Sanday
The recent announcement by Fiji’s Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs that Fiji will consider contributing troops to a proposed international...
Jeremy Rose: Mexico – the revolution isn’t being televised
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s support for resettling Palestinian children orphaned by Israel’s genocide in Gaza barely rates a mention, reports Towards Democracy.
COMMENTARY: By Jeremy...
Eugene Doyle: Look where appeasing a bully has led the West...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Donald Trump is a classic example of why you don’t let bullies prosper. “Trump is cutting the last threads of the...
One year into Trump’s second term – repressive US president on...
Reporters Without Borders
After winning re-election in 2024, Donald Trump promised to be a dictator “on day one”.
When it comes to press freedom, he has...
Nobel Peace Prize ‘gift’ to Trump slammed as ‘meaningless, pathetic ...
Asia Pacific Report
The Nobel Peace Prize "handover" episode at the White House has sparked shock and criticism in Norway, where the honour is awarded.
Trygve...
Israel tries to drag US into ‘fighting wars on its behalf,’...
Middle East Monitor
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that Israel has always tried to draw the US into wars fought “on its...
Iran protests – why this upheaval is fundamentally different from 1979
ANALYSIS: By Saeid Golkar
Iran is living through one of the most dangerous moments in its post-revolutionary history. Nationwide protests have become sustained rather than...
Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be...
CNMI leaders warn economic slide could affect US strategic presence in...
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
Leaders in the Northern Marianas have warned that a deepening economic crisis in the...
Clark condemns US withdrawal as ‘assault on international system of cooperation’
By Pretoria Gordon, RNZ News journalist
A former head of the United Nations Development Programme is concerned that US President Donald Trump may set a...
Ian Powell: The Nicolás Maduro kidnapping, US imperialist expansion and implications...
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell
There is much to understand from the dramatic kidnapping -- abduction is perhaps a better word -- of Venezuelan President Nicolás...
Former NZ mayoral hopeful arrested at Venezuela solidarity protest
RNZ News
Three people, including former Wellington mayoral hopeful Graham Bloxham, have been arrested at a Venezuela solidarity protest in New Zealand's capital.
Around 100 people...
Jonathan Cook: From Gaza to Venezuela, the US has been unmasked...
The path to Caracas -- and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed-- was paved in Gaza,...
‘Straight-up piracy and extortion’: Trump says he will control money from...
By Jake Johnson
US President Donald Trump has claimed that Venezuela’s interim leadership will turn over to the United States as many as 50 million...
Bryce Edwards: NZ’s craven stance on the US invasion of Venezuela
ANALYSIS: By Bryce Edwards
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, New Zealand responded with unusual speed. Sanctions followed. Condemnations were issued. The language was unambiguous.
We...
Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?
COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans
What have we become if to survive in our so-called “free world” we must turn a blind eye to cold-blooded genocide,...
Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnap of Maduro...
Asia Pacific Report
Amid widespread condemnation of the United States over its brazen weekend attack on Venezuela around the world and in the UN Security...
Out-scooped by Trump – the US attack in Nigeria did...
ANALYSIS: By Walden Bello
US President Donald Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has taught me a lesson: that if you think you have...
Trump’s gift-wrapped Maduro package has done the world a favour –...
Kidnap, murder, torture, brutality, subversion, treachery, and barbarism, writes Adrian Blackburn reflecting on US President Donald Trump's New Year present to the world.
COMMENTARY: By...
Tucker Carlson ‘tuckered out’ with Donald Trump and Israel – insights...
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell
The origin of the expression "tuckered out" goes back to the east of the United States around the 1830s.
After New...
Indonesia’s Gaza peacekeeping mission risks enforcing a ‘broken’ status quo
ANALYSIS: By Dr Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
Indonesia is preparing one of the largest peacekeeping deployments in its history -- a 20,000-strong force of soldiers, engineers,...
Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It...
COMMENTARY: By Christopher Warren
There’s been skillful work in journalism’s dark arts on display in the UK this past week, as the nasty British right-wing...




































