Independent Analysis and Reportage
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Two American service members are dead. Another is missing. Four more were medically evacuated after Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck a US base in Jordan on Friday night. The American death toll in this war now stands at 16, with more than 430 wounded. And none of it needed to
Asia Pacific Report “This is the last time you’ll see me… they brought me here to kill me.” These chilling words by detained and tortured Palestinian paediatrician Dr Hussam Abu Safiya were cited by an Amnesty International advocate today at a rally denouncing the failure of New Zealand media to highlight his plight. Dr Abu
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Trump administration has announced a renewed crusade against “far-left terrorism,” which sounds okay if you don’t know that the word “terrorism” only ever means “behavior which goes against the agendas of the Western empire.” The United States has for example placed sanctions on UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for calling
Almost a year after President Trump authorized preemptive law enforcement measures based on political or ideological beliefs, a wave of terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters has begun.
The government is kicking in $1,000 for babies born in calendar years 2025 through 2028.
The response to the many problems facing the region has been set back by cuts in humanitarian aid.
Jon Ronson’s Them was published just months before the world changed on September 11 2001. Its portrait of conspiracy theorists and extremists was eerily prescient.
Blue carbon involves more than just counting carbon. It requires governance, finance, policy, and practice. Ultimately, success hinges on people and their skills.
Job-ready Graduates created cheaper postgraduate education – especially for nursing students – but this may not last.
There’s a growing trend to pave over front gardens.
Reform UK’s popularity has dipped in the last year.
Toronto was both where Hemingway deepened his journalism and where he began honing the literary techniques that would shape his fiction.