Tag: Donald Trump
Trump has ‘declared war against the American people’, says Ralph Nader
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: President Trump addressed a joint session of Congress in a highly partisan 100-minute speech, the longest presidential address to Congress in...
‘Back off AUKUS’, Greens MP Tuiono warns NZ in wake of...
Asia Pacific Report
The Green Party has called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to rule out Aotearoa New Zealand joining the AUKUS military technical pact...
In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Sussex, Australian National University
Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself...
Manipulated media: The weapon of the Right
The re-election of Donald Trump is proof that the Right's most powerful weapon is media manipulation, ensuring the public sphere is not engaged in...
Paul Buchanan: Trump 2.0 and the limits of over-reach
COMMENTARY: By Paul G Buchanan
Here is a scenario, but first a broad brush-painted historical parallel.
Hitler and the Nazis could well have accomplished everything that...
RSF demands White House restores AP’s access — and let press...
Pacific Media Watch
Trump administration officials barred two Associated Press (AP) reporters from covering White House events this week because the US-based independent news agency...
How would Israel respond if Trump called for death camps in...
The issue is no longer a hypothetical one. US President Donald Trump will not explicitly suggest death camps, but he has already consented to Israel's...
Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID
COMMENTARY: By Robin Davies
Much has been and much more will be written about the looming abolition of USAID.
It’s “the removal of a huge and...
Ōtautahi man says family in Gaza will never leave despite US...
By Rachel Helyer Donaldson, RNZ News journalist
A Palestinian man living in Aotearoa New Zealand who has lost 55 relatives in three Israeli airstrikes on...
Trump’s USAID freeze ‘undermines relationships in Pacific’, says editor
RNZ Pacific
Marshall Islands Journal editor Giff Johnson says US President Donald Trump's decision on aid "is an opening for anybody else who wants to...
Eugene Doyle: Trump and foolish old men who redraw maps
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...
Peters’ refusal to join ICC backers puts NZ in Trump’s ‘lawless...
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...
Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws independent journalism into chaos
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...
As Donald Trump plays God in Gaza, Israel acts like spoiled...
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...
Marape calls US climate backtracking ‘irresponsible’ in rethink plea to 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...
Deep freeze: Pacific ‘alarm’ as Trump leaves US diplomats with little...
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...
Trump 2.0 chaos and destruction — what it means Down Under
What will happen to Australia -- and New Zealand -- once the superpower that has been followed into endless battles, the United States, finally...
Trump’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ Gaza idea dismissed by analysts – rejected by...
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...
Trump’s ‘free speech’ vision comes at expense of press freedom
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...
Vanuatu AG condemns Trump’s Paris climate treaty exit as ‘troubling precedent’
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...
Mars, watch out — President Trump’s coming for you too
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...
Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear
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...