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May 17, 2026
ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World Press Freedom Index dossier online three days before World Press Freedom Day, journalists in the Asia-Pacific region were quick to check out their ranking. Overall the prognosis wasn’t very flattering. No country in the region was ... <a title="Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/17/improvements-in-pacific-media-freedom-but-a-shameful-silence-on-gaza-death-trap/" aria-label="Read more about Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2026
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 war in Iran is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has planned for four decades. He has always wanted Israel to extend from Egypt to the Euphrates and in the ... <a title="Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/16/media-miss-the-questions-never-asked-behind-the-us-israel-war-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on Iran">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2026
Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Forum of New Zealand has criticised plans for the country taking part in next month’s military exercises with Israel and the United States, saying Wellington must not be seen aligning militarily with a state “facing serious allegations of war crimes and genocide before international legal institutions”. In a statement today, ... <a title="Palestine Forum slams NZDF share in military exercises with ‘genocidal’ Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/16/palestine-forum-slams-nzdf-share-in-military-exercises-with-genocidal-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine Forum slams NZDF share in military exercises with ‘genocidal’ Israel">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2026
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 to international law, enshrined “rules” and “order”, we must take a hard look at the solutions he offers to enhance security. Security now clearly is shaped in a global context. ... <a title="Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what kind of a world?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/16/defending-nz-values-in-a-volatile-world-but-in-what-kind-of-a-world/" aria-label="Read more about Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what kind of a world?">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2026
In a fawning softball 60 Minutes interview released on Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu stressed the importance of winning “the propaganda war” on social media. This comes as Israel moves to quadruple its propaganda budget to $730 million a year. Major Garrett (which apparently is a real name belonging to a real guy who works for 60 ... <a title="Netanyahu stresses the need for more propaganda as Israel’s Hasbara budget soars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/12/netanyahu-stresses-the-need-for-more-propaganda-as-israels-hasbara-budget-soars/" aria-label="Read more about Netanyahu stresses the need for more propaganda as Israel’s Hasbara budget soars">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2026
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 Israel returned home this week and gave a searing speech in Auckland today condemning the abuses he and others suffered. “They abducted us at gunpoint and threatened to kill us ... <a title="‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/11/they-threatened-to-kill-us-at-gunpoint-says-nz-gaza-flotilla-activist/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2026
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 if I were him. It also shows that he is surrounded by incompetent officials. Any competent advisor would advise him against undertaking this trip. He goes as the leader of ... <a title="Iran war fallout – Trump is going to Beijing on bended knees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/10/iran-war-fallout-trump-is-going-to-beijing-on-bended-knees/" aria-label="Read more about Iran war fallout – Trump is going to Beijing on bended knees">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Prince Taofeek Ajibade The signals are now coming from both sides of the negotiating table. American sources confirm it. Pakistani mediators confirm it. The end of the US-Iran war is near, and the terms of that ending will echo across the international order for decades. Let us be precise about what has happened ... <a title="Iran war almost over . . . and the end of an era – a Global South perspective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/07/iran-war-almost-over-and-the-end-of-an-era-a-global-south-perspective/" aria-label="Read more about Iran war almost over . . . and the end of an era – a Global South perspective">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges Nothing illustrates the inversion of the international and moral order more than the genocide in Gaza and the shipment of tens of billions of dollars of weapons to Israel by Western nations — especially the United States — to sustain it. Part of this inversion is the unrelenting persecution of those ... <a title="Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/06/israels-kidnapping-of-two-important-pro-palestine-global-activists-reaffirms-persecution/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution">Read more</a>
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Asia Pacific Report - John Minto
Forough Amin in her opinion piece “The consequences of selective morality” (The Press, 28 April 2026) argues that the Palestine solidarity movement’s call for sanctions against Israel is “selective morality”. She says we should be calling out all human rights abuses everywhere — which in her case means Iran.
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April 29, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Jason Brooke 1news tonight featured a report on the War in Ukraine. The reporter, a foreign war correspondent, explained to viewers how Ukrainian soldiers were increasingly using long-range high-tech drones to target Russian infrastructure. Now while not explicitly stated, the narrative being delivered through our particularly “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are ... <a title="‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/self-defence-and-the-contradictions-of-western-exceptionalism-in-our-media/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Jeremy Scahill Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been on a strategic tour to prepare for two dramatically different paths that could unfold in the coming days — a return to diplomacy or a resumption of the war with the US and Israel. While President Donald Trump has claimed that the Iranian government ... <a title="As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own terms for ending the war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/28/as-trumps-narrative-on-negotiations-flails-iran-is-setting-its-own-terms-for-ending-the-war/" aria-label="Read more about As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own terms for ending the war">Read more</a>
