Tag: USA

COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose In 2015, the John Key government announced a cooperation agreement that would see NZ Aid pay for Cuban doctors to be...

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist A multinational police investigation implicating 11 Fiji police officers in collusion with drug traffickers has been handed over to...

Tehran believes Trump will attack in the next 48 hours -- and is ready to counter-escalate, writes US-Iran affairs analyst Trita Parsi. ANALYSIS: By Trita...

Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Forum of New Zealand has criticised plans for the country taking part in next month's military exercises with Israel and...

COMMENTARY: By Frances Palmer While appreciating certain points in Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s speech "Securing NZ’s Future in a more Volatile World" on current challenges...

The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy, writes...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Why is US President Donald Trump carrying on with his State visit to Beijing this week on May 14? I wouldn't...

COMMENTARY: By Prince Taofeek Ajibade The signals are now coming from both sides of the negotiating table. American sources confirm it. Pakistani mediators confirm it. The...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto Forough Amin in her opinion piece “The consequences of selective morality” (The Press, 28 April 2026) argues that the Palestine solidarity...

ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle If Iran succeeds in extracting reparations for the damage done to it in the US-Israeli war, it will be a world...

COMMENTARY: By Tim O'Shea I don't blame Iran for going cold on another sham negotiation session with the US. After all, why would they take the...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Amy Goodman. As we continue to look at the US and Israeli war on Iran, we’re joined...

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone I don’t mind admitting that I hope the US and Israel suffer a crushing, devastating defeat in Iran. I hope this war...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Most of Iranian oil -- 96.7 percent -- is destined for China. If you note this figure, you will realise that...

COMMENTARY: By Trita Parsi Yesterday began with Donald Trump issuing genocidal threats against Iran on social media and ended -- just ten hours later --...

COMMENTARY: By Yanis Varoufakis Having launched an illegal, destructive war that brutally struck the entire planet’s economy (and confirmed once again Europe’s combination of irrelevance...

COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, of Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices Vietnam survived Nixon’s madman theory and the world survived the era of mutually assured...

The war in Iran is in its second month. A war started by a criminal defendant, a convicted felon, and a blackmail network that...

COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames An Easter message. There's no mystery about why wars start. They happen because someone, somewhere, decides that negotiation is more...

COMMENTARY: By Robert Reich Mr Trump, may I have a word? Bad enough for you to insist -- in the face of all evidence to the...

ANALYSIS: Introduced by Robert Reich From time to time, I post transcripts I’ve come across of particularly insightful conversations. Here’s one that’s particularly relevant to...

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the...