At dawn, on 7 October 2023, Hamas fighters blast over 100 holes in the walls and fences that separate the Gaza Strip from Israel. (more…)
Eugene Doyle
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Hamas is better than us
This headline could get me jail time if, as reported, the New Zealand Government is planning to take the same authoritarian turn that the UK has sunk to with its proscription of Palestine Action. It would represent another dangerous conflation of protest with terrorism. (more…)
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Trump: Russia, India are ‘lost to deepest, darkest China’. Guess who did this, Donald?
Biden, Trump and the leaders of Western Europe have succeeded by their incoherent behaviour in doing what would have been unimaginable 20 years ago: alienating the very nations that they most needed to keep on their side. They are now weeping into their beer (or Diet Coke, in The Donald’s case). (more…)
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NATO in Asia-Pacific: Dragging us into a fight we can’t win
Is the future of Australia and New Zealand really as NATO forts, armed to the teeth glaring menacingly at an ever-rising China? (more…)
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Saving Marwan Barghouti is our duty
Seeing video evidence this week of the physical and psychological mistreatment of the great Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti sickened me. (more…)
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Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti!
The world’s most important hostage must be released. Powerful Western countries have signalled that in the face of the genocide they may recognise the state of Palestine. States need leaders. That’s why Marwan Barghouti — often dubbed the Palestinian Mandela — must be freed. (more…)
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We have turned the Nagasaki 80th into a celebration of Israeli genocide
Israel’s key enablers, the G7, plus Australia and New Zealand, have succeeded in muscling Israel back onto the invite list for the commemorations in Nagasaki on 9 August. Last year Israel was excluded, triggering a refusal by these countries to attend in 2024. Does the ‘personal’ invitation that Nagasaki has just sent to Israel represent a triumph of Western diplomacy or a sick joke? (more…)
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Yousef Aljamal: The war on memory and writing through a genocide
Sitting opposite me in my black leather captain’s chair, looking more like a bouncer than a writer, was Yousef Aljamal, co-author of Displaced in Gaza – stories from the Gaza Genocide. (more…)
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Vive la resistance! The heroes who oppose genocide
Nobody has a bad word to say about the French Resistance in World War II, right? Who would criticise a group confronting fascism, right? (more…)
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The Rainbow Warrior 1985-2025 – Nuclear refugees in the Pacific: the evacuation of Rongelap – Part 2
On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had evacuated the entire population (320) of Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. (more…)
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The Rainbow Warrior 1985-2025: French state terrorism and the end of innocence Part 1
Immediately after murdering Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s ship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents went on a ski holiday in New Zealand’s South Island to celebrate. (more…)
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Why Asia-Pacific should be rooting for Iran
Setting aside any thoughts I may have about theocratic rulers (whether they be in Tel Aviv or Tehran), I am personally glad that Iran was able to hold out against the US-Israeli attacks this month. (more…)
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Centrifugal forces have been unleashed in Iran
The US-Israeli surprise attack on Iran is literally and figuratively designed to unleash centrifugal forces in the Islamic Republic. (more…)
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The West’s war on Iran
I have visited Iran twice. Once in June 1980 to witness an unprecedented event: the world’s first Islamic Revolution. It was the very start of my writing career. (more…)
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Chinese jet shoots down France’s best fighter. NZ and Australia should pay attention
For the first time in history, the US and the Western world face a genuine peer competitor in China.
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Radio New Zealand’s report on its Israel-Gaza coverage is not credible
Radio New Zealand’s decision to conduct a review of its Israel-Palestine coverage post-7 October 2023 is commendable. (more…)
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The fall of Saigon: From triumph to Trump (Part 3)
On 30 April 1975, Saigon fell, Vietnam rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled the country is not a fairy tale, it is not a one-dimensional parable of resurrection, of liberation from oppression, of joy for all, but there is a great deal to celebrate. (more…)
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The Fall of Saigon 1975: Quiet mutiny – the US Army falls apart – Part 2
Vietnam is a conflict from which we should have learnt – but never did – about the immorality, folly and counter-productivity of imperial war. (more…)
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The Fall of Saigon 1975: Fifty years of repeating what was forgotten (Part 1)
The first demonstration I ever went to was at 12, against the Vietnam War. The first formal history lesson I received was a few months later when I commenced high school. (more…)
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Ursula and the steel porcupine
EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has called for the EU to turn Ukraine into a “steel porcupine” and for Europe to undertake a massive rearmament. (more…)
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Declare your city genocide-free: Lessons from New Zealand’s nuclear-free movement
I recently attended a demonstration outside both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Israeli Embassy in Wellington. (more…)
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EU welcomes its first dictatorship
Democracy has just been overthrown in an EU nation for the first time ever – with the tacit backing of the European Union itself. Buckle up: if the pre-emptive coup in Romania is allowed to stand, this means that the EU has torn up its own rule book and welcomed a dictatorship into the community. (more…)
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Keir Starmer’s psychiatrist report leaked
Dr Edmund Freud of the European Centre for Political Pathologies recently completed a secret in-depth review of world leaders for the United Nations Security Council. His reports on President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Keir Starmer are now public, thanks to hackers, believed to be Russian, who have posted the findings on Tik-tok. (more…)
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Ukraine deal: Beware of Americans bearing gifts
Witnessing the extraordinary cage fight this week between Volodomyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump in the Oval Office provided an eye-popping glimpse into what is normally kept behind closed doors when world leaders meet to nut out matters of great consequence. (more…)
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Human sacrifice: remembering Aaron Bushnell
Lest we forget. On 25 February last year, Aaron Bushnell, a 25 year-old active duty US serviceman, self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. His last words on this Earth, as the fire consumed him, were: “Free Palestine!” (more…)
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Yellow Peril! Red Peril! ‘We cannot hide anymore’. Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea
The Western media went into overdrive this past week to work the laconic Kiwis into a mild frenzy over three Chinese naval vessels conducting exercises in the Tasman Sea a few thousand kilometres off our shores. What was really behind this orchestrated campaign? (more…)
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Back to Russia with love – détente is a win for everyone
One key fact was absent from virtually all of the reporting around the astonishing events of this past week. It was scarcely mentioned in stories about the Munich Security Conference, the call between Presidents Trump and Putin, the freezing out of the Europeans, the jaw-dropping statements by US Defence Secretary Hegseth, the ending of cherished plans to expand NATO into Ukraine, and the historic face-to-face meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Riyadh. The missed central point: Russia has, in effective terms, won the war where it counts – on the battlefield. That more than anything is driving the calculus in Washington. (more…)
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Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China?
New Zealand’s leading newspaper, the New Zealand Herald, screamed out this headline on 10 February: “Should New Zealand invade the Cook Islands?” (more…)
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Trump and foolish old men who redraw maps
It generally ends badly. An old tyrant embarks on an ill-considered project that involves redrawing maps. They are heedless to wise counsel and indifferent to indigenous interests or experience. Before they fail, are killed, deposed or otherwise disposed of, these vicious old men can cause immense harm. (more…)
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Is Romania’s stolen election what’s in store for ‘democracy’ in the West?
To save democracy, the US and the European elites appear to have found it necessary to destroy democracy. For the first time ever an election was overturned in an EU/NATO country. Ever. There were no allegations of voting irregularities – it was about whether Russia had spent money on a Tik Tok influence campaign to support the eventual winner of the first round. If that sounds an unconvincing reason for such an historic event, the truth (see below) is even weirder. (more…)