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April 8, 2026
There is a bitter truth that must be spoken before we can talk honestly about what is happening to us now. Michael West Media reports on Australia’s quiet complicity in the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown When the bombs fell on Gaza, Australia was quiet. When the hospitals were destroyed, when ... <a title="Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/08/ignoring-genocide-the-bill-for-australias-silence-has-arrived/" aria-label="Read more about Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, of Sh’ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices Vietnam survived Nixon’s madman theory and the world survived the era of mutually assured destruction. Now we face the moment of two super-empowered shitheads. There is nothing nicer to call them. Who will stop two self-obsessed, very old men, already dedicated to tearing down ... <a title="‘Someone, everyone, stop them’ – and now Trump has pulled back from the brink" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/08/someone-everyone-stop-them-and-now-trump-has-pulled-back-from-the-brink/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Someone, everyone, stop them’ – and now Trump has pulled back from the brink">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2026
OPEN LETTER: By Nureddin Abdurahman to NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters Minister, You are about to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a time of real global tension. Moments like this define countries. My great-grandfather fought fascism. In 1935, when fascist Italy invaded my country of birth, Ethiopia, then Abyssinia, Emperor Haile Selassie ... <a title="Open letter to Peters: We fought fascism. Why are we silent now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/open-letter-to-peters-we-fought-fascism-why-are-we-silent-now/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to Peters: We fought fascism. Why are we silent now?">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2026
The Murdoch press runs cover for an illegal war by blaming the wrong man entirely, instead of informing the public of facts. Michael West Media reports. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown Here is a reliable indicator that you are being managed rather than informed. When the story gets complicated, when the real cause of your pain ... <a title="This isn’t journalism – Australia’s Bowen beat-up and the Iran war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/07/this-isnt-journalism-australias-bowen-beat-up-and-the-iran-war/" aria-label="Read more about This isn’t journalism – Australia’s Bowen beat-up and the Iran war">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle In the coming years, if Iran survives as a sovereign state and retains control over the Strait of Hormuz, countries like Australia, New Zealand, the UK, South Korea and Japan will be made to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations for the US-Israeli war on Iran. For this to ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Who will pay billions in reparations to Iran? We will" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/05/eugene-doyle-who-will-pay-billions-in-reparations-to-iran-we-will/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Who will pay billions in reparations to Iran? We will">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Robert Reich Mr Trump, may I have a word? Bad enough for you to insist — in the face of all evidence to the contrary — that you “won” the 2020 election. But it’s another thing for you to pretend — in the face of mounting deaths and injuries, ballooning expenses, and rising ... <a title="President Trump, don’t listen to your sycophants on Iran, this isn’t reality TV" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/03/president-trump-dont-listen-to-your-sycophants-on-iran-this-isnt-reality-tv/" aria-label="Read more about President Trump, don’t listen to your sycophants on Iran, this isn’t reality TV">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2026
By Russel Norman One day in October 2023 I was walking down the supermarket aisle when I saw greenwashing in plain sight. Fonterra’s Anchor butter was sitting in the chiller with a prominent claim on the packaging that it was Grass Fed. I knew that Fonterra cows were fed on millions of tonnes of palm ... <a title="The supermarket trip that led to Fonterra admitting its ‘100% New Zealand Grass Fed’ claim is misleading and deceptive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/02/the-supermarket-trip-that-led-to-fonterra-admitting-its-100-new-zealand-grass-fed-claim-is-misleading-and-deceptive/" aria-label="Read more about The supermarket trip that led to Fonterra admitting its ‘100% New Zealand Grass Fed’ claim is misleading and deceptive">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Audrey van Ryn Museums around the world present the story of war in different ways. The Imperial War Museum in London includes military history, the Holocaust, women’s roles in the two world wars, wartime artwork and the political issues of the time. This museum records both civilian and military experiences, looking at the ... <a title="How museums can remember war while honouring civilian trauma and resistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/01/how-museums-can-remember-war-while-honouring-civilian-trauma-and-resistance/" aria-label="Read more about How museums can remember war while honouring civilian trauma and resistance">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean US President Donald Trump has been obsessed with seizing Iran’s Kharg Island for more than 35 years — way before he became a politician. In 1990, he wrote in an American newspaper that the United States should seize Kharg. Trump thinks that by seizing Kharg, he would get hold of Iranian ... <a title="Why Trump’s ‘fantasy’ obsession with Kharg Island may lead to disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/01/why-trumps-fantasy-obsession-with-kharg-island-may-lead-to-disaster/" aria-label="Read more about Why Trump’s ‘fantasy’ obsession with Kharg Island may lead to disaster">Read more</a>
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March 29, 2026
COMMENTARY: Pacific Media Watch A French senator walked into the Luxembourg Palace, opened his mouth, and basically set the whole room on fire. Politely. In a suit. Claude Malhuret didn’t yell nor wave his arms. He just listed things… calmly, methodically, like a doctor reading a very long and very depressing diagnosis. And by the ... <a title="War on Iran: The French senator who said what everybody was thinking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/29/war-on-iran-the-french-senator-who-said-what-everybody-was-thinking/" aria-label="Read more about War on Iran: The French senator who said what everybody was thinking">Read more</a>
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March 29, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan CookThe joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is in charge of this war: Israel or the United States? One side believes Israel lured Trump into a trap from which he ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: Does the tail wag the dog? How both sides are missing the bigger picture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/29/jonathan-cook-does-the-tail-wag-the-dog-how-both-sides-are-missing-the-bigger-picture/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: Does the tail wag the dog? How both sides are missing the bigger picture">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2026
DOCUMENTARY: Double Down News The Middle East is in flames. Britain is being dragged into an illegal war, the aims of which are entirely unclear, reports Richard Sanders of Double Down News. “It’s a war of choice, and the man who chose it is Benjamin Netanyahu. Why, yet again, is the West dancing to Israel’s ... <a title="Why is the West dancing to Israel’s tune? What’s leading us to disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/28/why-is-the-west-dancing-to-israels-tune-whats-leading-us-to-disaster/" aria-label="Read more about Why is the West dancing to Israel’s tune? What’s leading us to disaster">Read more</a>