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August 4, 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 for Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/04/turkey-based-freedom-flotilla-aid-ships-put-on-hold-but-handala-still-heads-for-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads for Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s assassination of the head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, on yesterday is part of Tel Aviv’s overall desperate search for a wider conflict. It is a criminal act that reeks of desperation. Almost immediately after the start of the Gaza war on October 7, Israel hoped to ... <a title="Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/why-israel-assassinated-haniyeh-desperation-over-gaza-failure/" aria-label="Read more about Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
Warning: This report discusses graphic details of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea. SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The nauseating stench of dried blood hung in the air as we arrived in Karida village, a few kilometers outside of Tari in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province. Through the landcruiser window, I ... <a title="From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of PNG tribal wars have changed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/from-bows-and-arrows-to-assault-rifles-how-the-rules-of-png-tribal-wars-have-changed/" aria-label="Read more about From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of PNG tribal wars have changed">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2024
Forget a 10-month genocide in Gaza. Only when Israel can exploit the deaths of Syrians living under its military occupation are we supposed to start worrying about the ‘consequences’, writes Jonathan Cook.ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook BBC coverage of the attack on a football pitch in the Golan Heights last Saturday has been intentionally misleading. The ... <a title="More dead children. More BBC ‘news’ channelling Israeli propaganda as its own" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/30/more-dead-children-more-bbc-news-channelling-israeli-propaganda-as-its-own/" aria-label="Read more about More dead children. More BBC ‘news’ channelling Israeli propaganda as its own">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Climate justice and gender equality cannot be achieved separately, a Pacific women’s conference heard this week. Marshall Islands President Dr Hilda Heine said the climate crisis faced in the region and the world would make gender equality more difficult to attain. “For example, we know that we cannot have gender equality without climate justice, and ... <a title="‘We can’t solve the climate crisis without gender equality’, says Heine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/we-cant-solve-the-climate-crisis-without-gender-equality-says-heine/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We can’t solve the climate crisis without gender equality’, says Heine">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The thing I hate about Western electoral politics in general and US presidential races in particular is that they take the focus off the depravity of the US-centralised Empire itself, and run cover for its criminality. In the coming months you’re going to be hearing a lot of talk about the ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: US presidential races hide the criminality of the Empire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/27/caitlin-johnstone-us-presidential-races-hide-the-criminality-of-the-empire/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: US presidential races hide the criminality of the Empire">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2024
Pacific Media Watch A Lebanese photojournalist who was severely wounded during an Israeli air strike in south Lebanon carried the Olympic torch in Paris this week in honour of her peers who have been wounded and killed in the field — especially in Gaza and Lebanon. Christina Assi of Agence France-Presse was among six journalists ... <a title="Photojournalist targeted by Israeli army carries Olympic torch in Paris" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/photojournalist-targeted-by-israeli-army-carries-olympic-torch-in-paris/" aria-label="Read more about Photojournalist targeted by Israeli army carries Olympic torch in Paris">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Pacific Media Watch An interview with former University of the South Pacific (USP) development studies professor Dr Vijay Naidu, a founding president of the Fiji Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG), has produced fresh insights into the legacy of Pacific nuclear-free and anti-colonialism activism. The community storytelling group Talanoa TV, an affiliate of the Whānau Community Centre and ... <a title="Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/former-fang-president-vijay-naidu-talks-pacific-anti-nuclear-activism/" aria-label="Read more about Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show in The Hague, where the International Court of Justice ruled last Friday that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal, should come to an end — “as rapidly as possible”. Israel’s illegal military ... <a title="Democracy Now!, Diana Buttu analyse ICJ ruling over illegal and ‘rapid end’ to Israel occupation of Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/democracy-now-diana-buttu-analyse-icj-ruling-over-illegal-and-rapid-end-to-israel-occupation-of-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Democracy Now!, Diana Buttu analyse ICJ ruling over illegal and ‘rapid end’ to Israel occupation of Palestine">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Pacific Media WatchPacific Journalism Review founder Dr David Robie says PJR has published more than 1100 research articles over its three decades of existence and is the largest single Pacific media research repository. But it has always been “far more than a research journal”, he added at the launch of the 30th anniversary edition at ... <a title="Independent PJR ‘far more than a research journal’, says founder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/independent-pjr-far-more-than-a-research-journal-says-founder/" aria-label="Read more about Independent PJR ‘far more than a research journal’, says founder">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2024
In the West Bank, one in three Palestinians has experienced one or more incarcerations during their life since 1967, or 35 percent of the population, while in Kanaky, the Nouméa prison, known as Camp Est, is populated by 95 percent Kanaks, while they represent only 39 to 43 percent of the Caledonian population. SPECIAL REPORT: ... <a title="From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/22/from-kanaky-to-palestine-how-paris-is-weaponising-deportations-from-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Polynesia’s veteran politician, 93-year-old Gaston Flosse, announced last week he is stepping down from his position as president of his Amuitahiraa o te Nunaa Maohi party. Flosse, known locally as “the old lion”, has been President of French Polynesia on several occasions over a span ... <a title="Tahiti’s ‘old lion’ Gaston Flosse, 93, steps down after 52 years in politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/21/tahitis-old-lion-gaston-flosse-93-steps-down-after-52-years-in-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s ‘old lion’ Gaston Flosse, 93, steps down after 52 years in politics">Read more</a>
