Tag: Donald Trump
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...
A shameful mandate for force: What the UNSC’s Gaza resolution means...
The UN Security Council passed a regime change resolution against Gaza on Monday, effectively issuing a mandate for an invasion force to enter the...
IDF failed on battlefield to disarm Hamas, but UN vote gives...
Asia Pacific Report
Israel and the US are now dictating their terms over Palestine, and Hamas and various Arab partners are at the receiving end...
Gaza ‘ceasefire’ simply means that Israel can do whatever it wants....
A Gaza resident tells his story of the struggle to survive in Israel's Gaza genocide today, "ceasefire" or not.
SPECIAL REPORT: By Qasem Waleed El-Farra
On...
NZ government has ‘Trumpian accent’, says global human rights advocate
RNZ News
The current New Zealand government has a "Trumpian accent" that should be a red flag for the people, one of the world's leading...
Making a stand against the global assault on press freedom
COMMENTARY: By Kasun Ubayasiri
We are gathered here to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance...
‘Extraordinarily destabilising decision’ – Trump denounced over call to immediately resume...
Democracy Now!
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin today’s Democracy Now! show looking at US-China relations and President Trump’s threat to resume nuclear weapons testing.
President Trump...
Fiji’s stance on Israel and new embassy stirs revived condemnation
Asia Pacific Report
Fiji opening an embassy in Jerusalem last month in defiance of United Nations resolutions on Occupied Palestine and hosting a visit by...



































