Tag: USA
Caitlin Johnstone: The world’s first trillionaire is not your friend
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
It’s so pathetic watching Elon Musk’s groveling bootlickers fall all over themselves on social media to defend their favorite oligarch from...
They’re saying the attack on Iran was ‘proportional’ – here are...
COMMENTARY: By Nuri Vitacchi
The US on Wednesday night destroyed civilian water utilities serving 20,000 Iranian people.
“The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian...
Mark Naglazas: Blaming immigrants when we need to look inside for...
COMMENTARY: By Mark Naglazas
Trying to get my head around Pete Hegseth’s bonkers, deeply offensive D-Day memorial speech in which the US Secretary of War...
Paying the price for US-Israeli wars – and NZ’s shameful stance...
COMMENTARY: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Today the US and/or Israel have been attacking Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Venezuela.
The US is also strangling Cuba with...
Lim Tean: Why standing on the wrong side of history cost...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Germany learnt to its huge cost and embarrassment last week that supporting Israel’s genocidal operations in Gaza and elsewhere in the...
Chris Hedges: Gaza and Iran – the rise of the Global...
COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges
The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing...
The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a...
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...
Eleven Fiji police officers investigated for ties to Auckland drug trade...
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...
Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?
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...
Palestine Forum slams NZDF share in military exercises with ‘genocidal’ Israel
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...
Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what...
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 West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself...
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...
Iran war fallout – Trump is going to Beijing on bended...
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...
Iran war almost over . . . and the end...
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...
Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists
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...
Eugene Doyle: Iran demands hundreds of billions in reparations for being...
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...
No wonder Iran went cold on sham talks, considering the lying...
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...
Who is breaking international law in the Strait of Hormuz? It’s...
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...
Caitlin Johnstone: I hope the US loses and the empire collapses
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...
Trump’s naval blockade of Strait of Hormuz actually targets China
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Most of Iranian oil -- 96.7 percent -- is destined for China. If you note this figure, you will realise that...
What on earth just happened? Trump, Iran, and the unlikely ceasefire
COMMENTARY: By Trita Parsi
Yesterday began with Donald Trump issuing genocidal threats against Iran on social media and ended -- just ten hours later --...
How Trump’s White House demands as prerequisites for stopping bombings bit...
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...




















![No wonder Iran went cold on sham talks, considering the lying US-Israeli track record "Both of these warmongering nations [US and Israel] have displayed a total lack of integrity and credibility through their disingenuous words and actions over many decades."](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Iran-not-going-to-talks-AJ-680wide-324x160.jpg)












