Tag: Donald Trump

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle It generally ends badly.  An old tyrant embarks on an ill-considered project that involves redrawing maps. They are heedless to wise counsel...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ refusal to join 79 other countries trying to protect the International Criminal Court (ICC) after...

Pacific Media Watch President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including more than $268 million allocated by Congress...

The Gaza ceasefire deal proves that Israeli politics can only survive if it is engaged in perpetual war. COMMENTARY: By Abdelhalim Abdelrahman US President Donald Trump...

PNG Post-Courier In a fervent appeal to the global community, Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea has called on US President Donald Trump...

COMMENTARY: By Tess Newton Cain It didn’t come as a surprise to see President Donald Trump sign executive orders to again pull out of the...

What will happen to Australia -- and New Zealand -- once the superpower that has been followed into endless battles, the United States, finally...

Asia Pacific Report UN President Donald Trump's idea of mass expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza to Jordan and Egypt has been dismissed by analysts as...

Pacific Media Watch Among his first official acts on returning to the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “restoring freedom of speech...

By Harry Pearl of BenarNews Vanuatu’s top lawyer has called out the United States for “bad behavior” after newly inaugurated President Donald Trump withdrew the...

COMMENTARY: By Belén Fernández It was a cold day in Washington, DC, on Tuesday when Donald Trump was sworn in for his second stint as...

COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel People get ready There's a train a-coming You don't need no baggage You just get on board All you need is faith To hear the diesels...

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Two LGBTQIA+ advocates in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are up in arms over...

Asia Pacific Report Israeli forces have been ramping up operations in the occupied West Bank-- mainly the Jenin refugee camp – to “distract” from the...

ANALYSIS: By Nicholas Khoo, University of Otago Donald Trump is an unusual United States President in that he may be the first to strike greater...

Navigating the shared challenges of climate change, geostrategic tensions, political upheaval, disaster recovery and decolonisation plus a 50th birthday party, reports a BenarNews contributor's...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr is inviting US President-elect Donald Trump to "visit the Pacific" to see firsthand...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...