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April 7, 2026
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 the US “No Kings” Day protests at the weekend. Recently, The Conversation hosted a webinar in which executive editor and general manager Beth Daley interviewed John Shattuck, professor of practice ... <a title="‘No kings’: What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/no-kings-what-americans-can-learn-from-other-nonviolent-civil-activism-movements/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No kings’: What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2026
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 the US “No Kings” Day protests at the weekend. Recently, The Conversation hosted a webinar in which executive editor and general manager Beth Daley interviewed John Shattuck, professor of practice ... <a title="Regime change: What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/30/regime-change-what-americans-can-learn-from-other-nonviolent-civil-activism-movements/" aria-label="Read more about Regime change: What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2026
In the ongoing United States and Israel war on Iran, it appears that all the countries agree on “controlling” the media. Despite differences in their political systems, all three governments follow an approach that prioritises “national morale” and “operational security” over press freedom and the flow of information. This approach redefines the concept of fake ... <a title="How the US, Israel and Iran are controlling their media narratives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/30/how-the-us-israel-and-iran-are-controlling-their-media-narratives/" aria-label="Read more about How the US, Israel and Iran are controlling their media narratives">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Nury Vittachi The West is in turmoil over countries’ top legal minds declaring the US-Israel attack on Iran to be illegal, as China did. But Israel-friendly Western politicians, including Starmer, von der Leyen, Albanese, and others are desperately blocking their ears as they try to justify actual war crimes. Here’s what the specialists ... <a title="12 reasons why a huge split is opening up in the West over US-Israel’s ‘manifestly illegal’ war on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/03/12-reasons-why-a-huge-split-is-opening-up-in-the-west-over-us-israels-manifestly-illegal-war-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about 12 reasons why a huge split is opening up in the West over US-Israel’s ‘manifestly illegal’ war on Iran">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2026
After winning re-election in 2024, Donald Trump promised to be a dictator “on day one”. When it comes to press freedom, he has kept his word, extending the war on the press he launched while running for his first term with grave attacks on access to reliable information worldwide. Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which monitors ... <a title="One year into Trump’s second term – repressive US president on track to join world’s worst press freedom predators" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/19/one-year-into-trumps-second-term-repressive-us-president-on-track-to-join-worlds-worst-press-freedom-predators/" aria-label="Read more about One year into Trump’s second term – repressive US president on track to join world’s worst press freedom predators">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
OPEN QUESTION: By Bryan Bruce Dear Rt Hon Winston Peters, There was a time when New Zealanders stood up for what was morally right. There are memorials around our country for those who died fighting fascism, we wrote parts of the UN Charter of Human Rights, we took an anti-nuclear stance in 1984, and three ... <a title="Gaza – an open question for NZ’s foreign minister Winston Peters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/gaza-an-open-question-for-nzs-foreign-minister-winston-peters/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza – an open question for NZ’s foreign minister Winston Peters">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – A Palestinian-Australian man has been criminally charged for voicing criticisms of Zionism during a protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He could spend months in prison. The Age reports that restaurant owner Hash Tayeh has been charged with four counts of “using insulting words in public” ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Zionism is strangling free speech in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/09/caitlin-johnstone-zionism-is-strangling-free-speech-in-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Zionism is strangling free speech in Australia">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Paul G Buchanan Here is a scenario, but first a broad brush-painted historical parallel. Hitler and the Nazis could well have accomplished everything that they wanted to do within German borders, including exterminating Jews, so long as they confined their ambitious to Germany itself. After all, the world pretty much sat and watched ... <a title="Paul Buchanan: Trump 2.0 and the limits of over-reach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/17/paul-buchanan-trump-2-0-and-the-limits-of-over-reach/" aria-label="Read more about Paul Buchanan: Trump 2.0 and the limits of over-reach">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2023
Though the Oslo Accords and its signatories made many promises to the Palestinians, in reality, it carved Palestine up into bantustans and ghettos with limited self-autonomy for Palestinians on a minuscule portion of their homeland. By Yumna Patel On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) ... <a title="‘It was set up to fail us’ – Palestinians reflect on 30 years of the Oslo Accords" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/17/it-was-set-up-to-fail-us-palestinians-reflect-on-30-years-of-the-oslo-accords/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It was set up to fail us’ – Palestinians reflect on 30 years of the Oslo Accords">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2023
Paul G Buchanan and Selwyn Manning examine why events in North Africa are connected to authoritarian multipolarity, a realignment of global power that favours the Russian Federation’s Putin regime.
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July 19, 2023
The LIVE Recording of A View from Afar podcast will begin at midday Thurs July 20, 2023 (NZST) and Wednesday July 19, 8pm (USEDST). In this the seventh episode of A View from Afar podcast for 2023 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will examine the strengths and weaknesses of democracy around the ... <a title="LIVE PODCAST@MIDDAY: How and Why Democracy is Backsliding Around the World – Buchanan and Manning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/19/live-podcastmidday-how-and-why-democracy-is-backsliding-around-the-world-buchanan-and-manning/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE PODCAST@MIDDAY: How and Why Democracy is Backsliding Around the World – Buchanan and Manning">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2023
The LIVE Recording of A View from Afar podcast will begin at midday Thurs July 6, 2023 (NZST) and Wednesday July 5, 8pm (USEDST). In this the sixth episode of A View from Afar for 2023 political scientist Dr Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will present a two-part episode to analyse what to make ... <a title="LIVE@MIDDAY: New Zealand’s PRC Trade Balancing Act + Russia in the wake of Prigozhin’s ‘Pronouncement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/05/livemidday-new-zealands-prc-trade-balancing-act-russia-in-the-wake-of-prigozhians-pronouncement/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE@MIDDAY: New Zealand’s PRC Trade Balancing Act + Russia in the wake of Prigozhin’s ‘Pronouncement’">Read more</a>
