Tag: War on Iran
The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean
Former US Vice-President Mike Pence wants Donald Trump to "finish the job" in the Strait of Hormuz.
After 130 days of war...
Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Despite advice from wiser heads, US President Donald Trump and his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth swallowed the bait from Israeli...
Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Last night, America bombed Iran. Again.
Dozens of strikes -- four to five times heavier than the last round -- against radar...
NZ anti-war protesters call for independent foreign policy and peaceful planet
COMMENTARY: By Liz Remmerswaal
Up to 1000 people joined a March for Peace in Auckland last weekend to demand that Aotearoa New Zealand become a...
This is the story that Trump and the West don’t want...
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean
Across my social media platforms, I encounter daily a particular brand of ignorance that I find increasingly impossible to ignore. Iran...
Palestine Action ‘terror’ sentencing, Starmer resignation but Labour change unlikely over...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: In Britain, Keir Starmer has announced his resignation as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party following growing pressure from...
Paul Hopkinson: Why NZ’s ‘Free Palestine’ party seeks to put Gaza...
INTERVIEW: By Ibrahim Othman
In an unprecedented move on New Zealand's political scene, the Free Palestine Party Aotearoa has been launched with the Palestinian cause...
Trump went to war against Iran and got a deal far...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Two days ago, I wrote an article and posted on FaceBook describing the US-Iran ceasefire as a surrender document. That article...
Tucker Carlson: Facing up to the Iran war irony – who...
COMMENTARY: By Tucker Carlson
So, the whole Iran war, like so much of life, has turned out to be exactly the opposite of what you...
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...
The train that changes everything – the Silk Road railway beats...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
In 1904, a British geographer named Halford Mackinder stood before the Royal Geographical Society in London and delivered what would become...
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...
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...
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...
Strait of Hormuz ‘open’ except for enemies, as new Iran insurance...
Asia Pacific Report
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is "open to all except its adversaries", and any passage through the trajectory of this...
Palestine on patrol – how a flag-dress caused a writers’ stir...
COMMENTARY: By Kathrine Ross
What a blast at the Auckland Writers Festival today, I had tickets for Marika and I to attend Palestinian writer Tareq...
Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...
ANALYSIS: By Alison Broinowski of Declassified Australia
Most of the Western media refuse to join the dots and explain Israel’s decades-long obsession with defanging Tehran.
The...
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...
Majuro reels from huge power rate increase, as govt steps up...
By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent
One of the biggest electricity increases in the history of the Marshalls Energy Company was implemented...
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...
‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla...
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealander who took part in the global flotilla trying to break the illegal Gaza siege and who was abducted by...








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