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Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda - like a bank robbery in broad daylight

1 week ago | asiapacificreport.nz | Giff Johnson

EDITORIAL: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands JournalUS President Donald Trump and his team is pursuing a white man’s racist agenda that is corrupt at its core. Trump’s advisor Elon Musk, who often seems to be the actual president, is handing his companies multiple contracts as his team takes over or takes down multiple government departments and agencies.
Ian Powell: When apartheid met Zionism - the case for NZ recognising Palestine as a state

2 weeks ago | asiapacificreport.nz | Ian Powell

COMMENTARY: By Ian PowellThe 1981 Springbok Tour was one of the most controversial events in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history. For 56 days, between July and September, more than 150,000 people took part in more than 200 demonstrations in 28 centres. It was the largest protest in the country’s history. It caused social ruptures within communities and families across the country.
Red Crescent Palestinians massacre: Global rule of law masquerade is over

3 weeks ago | asiapacificreport.nz | Joe Gill

SPECIAL REPORT: By Joe GillIt is difficult to be shocked after 18 months of Israel‘s genocidal onslaught on Gaza. Brazen crimes against humanity have become the norm. World powers do nothing in response. At best, they put out weak statements of concern. Now, the US does not even bother with that. It is fully on board with genocide.
It will take more than an Oscar to stop Israel’s West Bank plans

3 weeks ago | asiapacificreport.nz | Leilani Farha

By Leilani Farha of The New Arab“I started filming when we started to end.” With these haunting words, Basel Adra begins No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary that depicts life in Masafer Yatta, a collection of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank that are under complete occupation – military and civil – by Israel. For Basel and his community, this land isn’t merely territory — it’s identity, livelihood, their past and future.
From Rongelap to Mejatto - how Rainbow Warrior helped move nuclear refugees

3 weeks ago | asiapacificreport.nz | David Robie

The second of a two-part series on the historic Rongelap evacuation of 300 Marshall islanders from their irradiated atoll with the help of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior crew and the return of Rainbow Warrior III 40 years later on a nuclear justice research mission. Journalist and author David Robie, who was on board, recalls the 1985 voyage.
Hegseth commits US to defence of Pacific territories against China

3 weeks ago | asiapacificreport.nz | Mar-Vic Cagurangan

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan for BenarNewsUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has reaffirmed the Trump administration’s defence commitments to America’s Pacific territories of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands and that any attack on them would be an attack on the mainland. Hegseth touched down in Guam from Hawai’i on Thursday as part of an Indo-Pacific tour, his first as Defence Secretary, in which he is seeking to shore up traditional alliances to counter China.
Activist group praises Pacific support for West Papua but slams NZ

1 month ago | asiapacificreport.nz | Christine Rovoi

By Christine Rovoi of PMN NewsA human rights group in Aotearoa New Zealand has welcomed support from several Pacific island nations for West Papua, which has been under Indonesian military occupation since the 1960s. West Papua is a region (with five provinces) in the far east of Indonesia, centred on the island of New Guinea. Half of the eastern side of New Guinea is Papua New Guinea.
Top Pacific diplomats ready for direct talks on Bougainville independence

1 month ago | asiapacificreport.nz | Leah Lowonbu |Stefan Armbruster |Harlyne Joku

By Leah Lowonbu, Stefan Armbruster and Harlyne Joku of BenarNewsThe Pacific’s peak diplomatic bodies have signalled they are ready to engage with Papua New Guinea’s Autonomous Government of Bougainville as mediation begins on the delayed ratification of its successful 2019 independence referendum. PNG and Bougainville’s leaders met in the capital Port Moresby this week with a moderator to start negotiations on the implementation of the UN-supervised Bougainville Peace Agreement and referendum.
US might not cut pledged Pacific aid, says NZ foreign minister

1 month ago | asiapacificreport.nz | Alex Willemyns

By Alex Willemyns for Radio Free AsiaThe Trump administration might let hundreds of millions of dollars in aid pledged to Pacific island nations during former President Joe Biden’s time in office stand, says New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters. The Biden administration pledged about $1 billion in aid to the Pacific to help counter China’s influence in the strategic region.
Massacre at 2 am - Israel resumes indiscriminate attacks against Gaza, killing 400+ people

1 month ago | asiapacificreport.nz | Abubaker Abed |Jeremy Scahill

Israel says President Donald Trump green lit a scorched-earth bombing of Gaza that wiped out entire families and killed dozens of infants and other children.