Independent Analysis and Reportage
In this episode of A View from Afar, political scientist and former Pentagon Analyst Paul Buchanan and journalist Selwyn Manning deep-dive into the US-Israel war in the Middle East.
It’s only Day Five of the war, but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US-Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now. Michael West Media reports. COMMENTARY: By Michael West We are led by fools and sycophants. The illegal, unprovoked invasion of Iran is not just garden-variety stupidity. This is stupidity ... <a title="Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/05/australia-and-the-epstein-coalition-invasion-of-iran-a-disaster/" aria-label="Read more about Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster">Read more</a>
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Funny . . . back when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Vladimir Putin to tell us whether his acts of aggression were legal under international law. Instead, we immediately decided the invasion was illegal, and forthrightly condemned Russia’s actions at the time, and ever since. Different story when ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: Why the US has no credible reason or credible end game for its war on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/03/gordon-campbell-why-the-us-has-no-credible-reason-or-credible-end-game-for-its-war-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: Why the US has no credible reason or credible end game for its war on Iran">Read more</a>
Asia Pacific Report “We warned you,” says Iran’s national security commission head after Israel-US missiles attacks on the capital Tehran and other cities. Al Jazeera reports comments from Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the national security commission of the Iranian Parliament. “We warned you!” he wrote on social media. “Now you have started down a ... <a title="‘We warned you,’ says Iran’s national security chief after Israel-US attacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/28/we-warned-you-says-irans-national-security-chief-after-israel-us-attacks/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We warned you,’ says Iran’s national security chief after Israel-US attacks">Read more</a>
Democracy Now! In Gaza, a senior Hamas leader involved in the ceasefire negotiations has told Drop Site News that Hamas will not agree to demands that it unilaterally disarm. Basem Naim also said that Hamas would not submit to Israel’s demand for a total demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip. This comes amid reports that President ... <a title="Hamas refuses to follow US-Israel calls to unilaterally disarm in Gaza, says senior official" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/18/hamas-refuses-to-follow-us-israel-calls-to-unilaterally-disarm-in-gaza-says-senior-official/" aria-label="Read more about Hamas refuses to follow US-Israel calls to unilaterally disarm in Gaza, says senior official">Read more</a>
Asia Pacific Report Protesters have condemned Indonesia’s plan to take part in the International Stabilisaton Force for Gaza as Israel continues to violate the ceasefire on an almost daily basis. Carrying placards declaring “Break the siege”, “Gaza is not for sale”, “So, when will the Palestinians get to decide their own future” and crosses over ... <a title="Indonesian protesters slam Prabowo over ‘peacekeeping’ troops for Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/15/indonesian-protesters-slam-prabowo-over-peacekeeping-troops-for-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian protesters slam Prabowo over ‘peacekeeping’ troops for Gaza">Read more</a>
COMMENTARY: By Jim Sanday When peace is being designed, Fiji is not invited into the room. When peace needs enforcing, Fiji is asked to send soldiers. That uncomfortable reality is exposed by the emergence of US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” for Gaza. While New Zealand was formally invited to join the Board ... <a title="Troops without a seat – the Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ and Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/09/troops-without-a-seat-the-gaza-board-of-peace-and-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about Troops without a seat – the Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ and Fiji">Read more</a>
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone I don’t know what to say today. We are ruled by abusive monsters. The US is preparing for war with Iran. They’re going in for the kill shot on Cuba. The latest batch of Epstein emails looks horrifying. The US is full ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Our rulers are psychopaths and they’re making everything awful" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/02/caitlin-johnstone-our-rulers-are-psychopaths-and-theyre-making-everything-awful/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Our rulers are psychopaths and they’re making everything awful">Read more</a>
COMMENTARY: By John Menadue Western leaders defend the rules-based international order when it suits them, but remain largely silent as those same rules are breached by the United States and Israel. The result is a system that shields the powerful and abandons the vulnerable — most starkly in Palestine. The white men and a few ... <a title="Greenland and Western hypocrisy over the rules-based international order" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/01/greenland-and-western-hypocrisy-over-the-rules-based-international-order/" aria-label="Read more about Greenland and Western hypocrisy over the rules-based international order">Read more</a>
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Feckless European leaders like Starmer let Israel and the US tear up international law in Gaza. Now, faced with Greenland and Ukraine, they are suffering from a severe case of buyer’s regret. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook US President Donald Trump has declared the three-month “ceasefire” in ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is the nail in Gaza’s coffin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/28/jonathan-cook-trumps-board-of-peace-is-the-nail-in-gazas-coffin/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is the nail in Gaza’s coffin">Read more</a>
COMMENTARY: By Kalafi Moala, publisher of Talanoa ‘o Tonga As a journalist based in Tonga, I have chosen mostly to refrain from giving a view of US President Donald Trump, one way or another, as I thought that he would sooner or later get over his incredible childishness and tyrannical behavior, and start doing something ... <a title="Kalafi Moala: My view of tyrannical Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/26/kalafi-moala-my-view-of-tyrannical-trump/" aria-label="Read more about Kalafi Moala: My view of tyrannical Trump">Read more</a>
ANALYSIS: By Jim Sanday The recent announcement by Fiji’s Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs that Fiji will consider contributing troops to a proposed international stabilisation force in Gaza imposes a responsibility on all of us to ask the hard questions before the decision is finalised by Cabinet. At the outset, let’s all be clear ... <a title="Gaza peacekeeping deployment – five clear questions Fiji cannot ignore" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/25/gaza-peacekeeping-deployment-five-clear-questions-fiji-cannot-ignore/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza peacekeeping deployment – five clear questions Fiji cannot ignore">Read more</a>