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January 28, 2025
Asia Pacific Report UN President Donald Trump’s idea of mass expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza to Jordan and Egypt has been dismissed by analysts as unaccepable “ethnic cleansing” and rejected by the governments of both neigbouring countries. Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani, a nonresident research fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs and ... <a title="Trump’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ Gaza idea dismissed by analysts – rejected by Jordan, Egypt on ‘Day of Return’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/28/trumps-ethnic-cleansing-gaza-idea-dismissed-by-analysts-rejected-by-jordan-egypt-on-day-of-return/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ Gaza idea dismissed by analysts – rejected by Jordan, Egypt on ‘Day of Return’">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Among his first official acts on returning to the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship”. Implicit in this vaguely written document: the United States is done fighting mis- and disinformation online, reports the Paris-based global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). ... <a title="Trump’s ‘free speech’ vision comes at expense of press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/27/trumps-free-speech-vision-comes-at-expense-of-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s ‘free speech’ vision comes at expense of press freedom">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2025
By Harry Pearl of BenarNews Vanuatu’s top lawyer has called out the United States for “bad behavior” after newly inaugurated President Donald Trump withdrew the world’s biggest historic emitter of greenhouse gasses from the Paris Agreement for a second time. The Pacific nation’s Attorney-General Arnold Loughman, who led Vanuatu’s landmark International Court of Justice climate ... <a title="Vanuatu AG condemns Trump’s Paris climate treaty exit as ‘troubling precedent’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/25/vanuatu-ag-condemns-trumps-paris-climate-treaty-exit-as-troubling-precedent/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu AG condemns Trump’s Paris climate treaty exit as ‘troubling precedent’">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2025
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Two LGBTQIA+ advocates in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are up in arms over US President Donald Trump’s executive order rolling back protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government. Pride Marianas founder Roberto Santos said Trump’s ... <a title="Northern Mariana Islands advocates hit back at Trump diversity directives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/northern-mariana-islands-advocates-hit-back-at-trump-diversity-directives/" aria-label="Read more about Northern Mariana Islands advocates hit back at Trump diversity directives">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel People get readyThere’s a train a-comingYou don’t need no baggageYou just get on boardAll you need is faithTo hear the diesels hummingDon’t need no ticketYou just thank the Lord Songwriter: Curtis Mayfield You might have seen Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s speech at the National Prayer Service in the United States following ... <a title="Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/standing-for-decency-the-sermon-the-president-didnt-want-to-hear/" aria-label="Read more about Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Israeli forces have been ramping up operations in the occupied West Bank– mainly the Jenin refugee camp – to “distract” from the Gaza ceasefire deal, says political analyst Dr Mohamad Elmasry. The Qatari professor said the ceasefire was being viewed domestically as a “spectacular failure” for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The ceasefire ... <a title="Israel has ramped up West Bank raids to ‘distract’ from ceasefire, says analyst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/israel-has-ramped-up-west-bank-raids-to-distract-from-ceasefire-says-analyst/" aria-label="Read more about Israel has ramped up West Bank raids to ‘distract’ from ceasefire, says analyst">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Navigating the shared challenges of climate change, geostrategic tensions, political upheaval, disaster recovery and decolonisation plus a 50th birthday party, reports a BenarNews contributor’s analysis. COMMENTARY: By Tess Newton Cain Vanuatu’s devastating earthquake and dramatic political developments in Tonga and New Caledonia at the end of 2024 set the tone for the coming year in ... <a title="Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set tone for coming year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/pacific-2025-vanuatu-quake-tongan-and-kanaky-shakeups-trump-questions-set-tone-for-coming-year/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set tone for coming year">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr is inviting US President-elect Donald Trump to “visit the Pacific” to see firsthand the impacts of the climate crisis. Palau is set to host the largest annual Pacific leaders meeting in 2026, and the country’s leader Whipps told RNZ Pacific he would “love” ... <a title="Palau’s president invites Trump to visit Pacific to see climate crisis impacts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/palaus-president-invites-trump-to-visit-pacific-to-see-climate-crisis-impacts/" aria-label="Read more about Palau’s president invites Trump to visit Pacific to see climate crisis impacts">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2024
Dr Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning deep-dive into the United States November 5, 2024 Elections and consider the 'what, where, how and why' questions as they detail the rise and fall and rise of Donald John Trump and Trumpism.
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November 9, 2024
LIVE PODCAST: A View from Afar A Deep-Dive with Dr Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning. The LIVE Recording of this podcast will begin today, Monday at 12:45pm November 11, 2024 (NZST) which is Sunday evening, 7:45pm (USEST). Image courtesy of Nick Minto, Copyright 2024 Nick Minto; photographed November 6, 2024, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. In ... <a title="A View from Afar – US SPECIAL EPISODE: The Rise & Fall & Rise of Trumpism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/09/scheduled-live-podcast-us-special-episode-the-rise-fall-rise-of-trumpism/" aria-label="Read more about A View from Afar – US SPECIAL EPISODE: The Rise & Fall & Rise of Trumpism">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2024
Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: As we continue to look at Donald Trump’s return to the White House, we turn now to look at what it means for the world, from Israel’s war on Gaza to the Russian invasion ... <a title="Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza ‘betrayal of true feminism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/08/kamala-harriss-support-for-israels-genocide-in-gaza-betrayal-of-true-feminism/" aria-label="Read more about Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza ‘betrayal of true feminism’">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges In the end, the US election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialisation. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programmes and the funneling of wealth upwards into the hands of rapacious ... <a title="Chris Hedges: The politics of cultural despair – and the American nightmare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/08/chris-hedges-the-politics-of-cultural-despair-and-the-american-nightmare/" aria-label="Read more about Chris Hedges: The politics of cultural despair – and the American nightmare">Read more</a>
