Tag: USA
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...
‘Someone, everyone, stop them’ – and now Trump has pulled back...
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...
Monsters of war – the men who have put the world...
The war in Iran is in its second month. A war started by a criminal defendant, a convicted felon, and a blackmail network that...
Richard David Hames: When will we make war untenable for...
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...
President Trump, don’t listen to your sycophants on Iran, this isn’t...
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...
‘No kings’: What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism...
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...
Jonathan Cook: Does the tail wag the dog? How both sides...
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...
‘Israel First’ – ex-Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy on why Netanyahu led...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman in New York, joined by, for the first time...
Eugene Doyle: Trump celebrates Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
You can’t make this stuff up. The President of the United States, while sitting next to the Japanese Prime Minister in...
Israel – the parasite state sabotaging peace in the Middle East
COMMENTARY: By Marcus Alexander
In a stunning resignation that has sent shockwaves through Washington, former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent has exposed what many...
Israel caught in a permanent state of war mindset – peace...
INTERVIEW: C.J. Polychroniou and Idan Landau
Israel’s war on Iran is a direct result of a political culture that depends for survival upon a permanent...
Saige England: Journalists must stand up and report with the moral...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
Every week, health prevailing, I march with our Palestinian friends and their supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand. And my country is...
Eugene Doyle: Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The United States and Israel have, for decades, pursued the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state.
We are now in the...
War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: The US-Israeli war on Iran has entered its 11th day. Its impact is being increasingly felt across the globe. Al Jazeera...
Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
I came across this statement from an independent media source this week:
“The mainstream media is doing what it always does in...







![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)



























