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September 9, 2024
By Efe Özkan Pro-Palestinian anti-war activists in Australia have protested in Melbourne, disrupting a defence expo set to open on Wednesday. Protesters gathered yesterday in front of companies connected to weapons manufacturing across Melbourne as police were called to prevent an escalation of the events, according to 7News Melbourne. Many police cars and units were ... <a title="Pro-Palestinian activists hold protests to disrupt defense expo in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/09/pro-palestinian-activists-hold-protests-to-disrupt-defense-expo-in-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-Palestinian activists hold protests to disrupt defense expo in Australia">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2024
OPEN LETTER: Our Action Station Dear TVNZ, We are deeply concerned with the misleading nature of the journalism presented in your recent coverage of the escalating crisis in Gaza and the West Bank. By focusing on specific language and framing, while leaving out the necessary context of international law, the broadcast misrepresents the reality of ... <a title="Open letter to TVNZ – stop the bias, report fairly on the Israeli war on Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/08/open-letter-to-tvnz-stop-the-bias-report-fairly-on-the-israeli-war-on-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to TVNZ – stop the bias, report fairly on the Israeli war on Palestine">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Brittany Nawaqatabu in Suva Regional leaders will gather later this month in Tonga for the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Tonga and high on the agenda will be Japan’s dumping oftreated nuclear wastewater in the Pacific Ocean. A week ago on the 6 August 2024, the 79th anniversary of the atomic ... <a title="Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/16/browns-backflip-over-japanese-nuclear-wastewater-dump-poses-challenge-for-forum/" aria-label="Read more about Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Environmental destruction is not an unintended side effect, but a primary objective in colonial wars of occupation. By David Whyte and Samira Homerang Saunders Many in the international community are finally coming to accept that the earth’s ecosystem can no longer bear the weight of military occupation. Most have reached this inevitable conclusion, clearly articulated in the ... <a title="From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate catastrophe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/from-papua-to-gaza-military-occupation-leads-to-ecocide-climate-catastrophe/" aria-label="Read more about From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate catastrophe">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Israel’s zealots are ignoring the pleas of the top brass. They want to widen the circle of war, whatever the consequences. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook in Middle East Eye There should be nothing surprising about the revelation that troops at Sde Teiman, a detention camp set up by Israel in the wake of Hamas’s October ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: Israel is in a death spiral – who will it take down with it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/jonathan-cook-israel-is-in-a-death-spiral-who-will-it-take-down-with-it/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: Israel is in a death spiral – who will it take down with it?">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Pacific Media Watch A global media watchdog has expressed concern for the safety of an Al Jazeera reporter after false claims by the Israeli military. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it was concerned for Anas al-Sharif, Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in northern Gaza, after an Israel military spokesperson accused him of “presenting a ... <a title="Media watchdog says Al Jazeera paying ‘devastating price’ in warning on Gaza reporter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/media-watchdog-says-al-jazeera-paying-devastating-price-in-warning-on-gaza-reporter/" aria-label="Read more about Media watchdog says Al Jazeera paying ‘devastating price’ in warning on Gaza reporter">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
By Lice Movono and Stephen Dziedzic of ABC Pacific Beat Fiji’s Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, says he will “apologise” to fellow Melanesian leaders later this month after failing to secure agreement from Indonesia to visit its restive West Papua province. At last year’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders meeting in Cook Islands, the Melanesian Spearhead ... <a title="Fiji’s Rabuka ‘will apologise’ to Melanesian leaders over failure to visit West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/fijis-rabuka-will-apologise-to-melanesian-leaders-over-failure-to-visit-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Rabuka ‘will apologise’ to Melanesian leaders over failure to visit West Papua">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has told supporters that the “Break the Siege” aid project for besieged Gaza from Turkey has been put on hold — indefinitely — due to rising tensions in the wake of the assassinations of key resistance leaders in the capitals of Lebanon and Iran. “We will continue to ... <a title="Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads towards Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/turkey-based-freedom-flotilla-aid-ships-put-on-hold-but-handala-still-heads-towards-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads towards Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific foreign ministers have given their nod of approval for United States territories Guam and American Samoa to be associate members of main regional decision-making body, but a political analyst says it is geopolitics at play. The news was delivered by Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) chair and Cook Islands ... <a title="Greenlight given to Guam, American Samoa for PIF associate membership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/greenlight-given-to-guam-american-samoa-for-pif-associate-membership/" aria-label="Read more about Greenlight given to Guam, American Samoa for PIF associate membership">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2024
By Gerard Carreon in Manila An appeals court has struck down a 2018 government order that sought to shut down Rappler, an online Philippine news site celebrated for its critical coverage of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called “war on drugs” that left thousands dead. The Court of Appeals (CA) Special 7th Division, in a ruling ... <a title="Philippine court strikes down order to shut online news site Rappler" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/philippine-court-strikes-down-order-to-shut-online-news-site-rappler/" aria-label="Read more about Philippine court strikes down order to shut online news site Rappler">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
By Mick Hall A leading peace campaigner is calling Aotearoa New Zealand’s decision to stay away from a peace event in Nagasaki paying tribute to victims of the Japanese city’s 1945 nuclear bombing “outrageous”. Former trade union leader Robert Reid said New Zealand could have acted as a strong independent Pacific voice by attending today’s ... <a title="Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/advocate-slams-nz-snub-of-nagasaki-peace-tribute-as-outrageous/" aria-label="Read more about Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin, writes Jonathan Cook. COMMENTARY: By Jonathan Cook The headline above, about yet another Israeli operation to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians in the tiny, besieged and utterly destroyed enclave of Gaza, was ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: Nothing’s changed since 1948 – except now Israel’s excuses don’t work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/jonathan-cook-nothings-changed-since-1948-except-now-israels-excuses-dont-work/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: Nothing’s changed since 1948 – except now Israel’s excuses don’t work">Read more</a>
