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April 8, 2026
Analysis by Keith Rankin, 8 April 2026. Based on my reading of the latest upscaling of US rhetoric, one of the military options being considered by the Israeli-American axis is the nuclear option. Refer Trump says a ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ if deal isn’t reached, One News, 8 April 2026. The possibility of Netanyahu ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – The Axis Nuclear Option in light of Japan 1945" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/08/keith-rankin-analysis-the-axis-nuclear-option-in-light-of-japan-1945/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – The Axis Nuclear Option in light of Japan 1945">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2026
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>
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March 5, 2026
Peace Movement Aotearoa “One can oppose a hateful regime and, at the same time, oppose an unjustified and dangerous military intervention,” says Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. “I once again call for immediate de-escalation, respect for international law, and the urgency of resuming dialogue.” While some governments around the world have easily managed to express ... <a title="New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/05/new-zealand-shameful-over-iran-stance-says-peace-movement-aotearoa/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand ‘shameful’ over Iran stance, says Peace Movement Aotearoa">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames Dear warmongers: You are sleepwalking towards a war in the Middle East that could set the whole world ablaze. Do not pretend you don’t know this. Your generals know it. Your intelligence agencies know it. Financial markets know it. Every citizen with a memory longer than a news cycle can ... <a title="Open letter: Seven warning signals to the global warmongers who are claiming to lead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/open-letter-seven-warning-signals-to-the-global-warmongers-who-are-claiming-to-lead/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter: Seven warning signals to the global warmongers who are claiming to lead">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2025
Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin today’s Democracy Now! show looking at US-China relations and President Trump’s threat to resume nuclear weapons testing. President Trump and President Xi Jinping met in South Korea and agreed to a one-year trade truce, but the trade deal was overshadowed by Trump’s announcement that the US would resume testing ... <a title="‘Extraordinarily destabilising decision’ – Trump denounced over call to immediately resume nuclear tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/02/extraordinarily-destabilising-decision-trump-denounced-over-call-to-immediately-resume-nuclear-tests/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Extraordinarily destabilising decision’ – Trump denounced over call to immediately resume nuclear tests">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Over the last week I have subverted the western geo-cultural tropes of ‘Good versus Evil’ and ‘Beautiful versus Ugly’. (Geopolitical Rugby: Bad plays Evil, for the final World Cup 16 Sep 2025 and Lookism11 Sep 2025; both on Scoop and Evening Report.) Here I consider our new version of the former ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Nuclear Calculus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/21/keith-rankin-on-nuclear-calculus/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Nuclear Calculus">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2025
Pacific Media Watch “Speak Up Kōrerotia” — a radio show centred on human rights issues — has featured a nuclear-free Pacific and other issues in this week’s show. Encouraging discussion on human rights issues in both Canterbury and New Zealand, Speak Up Kōrerotia offers a forum to provide a voice for affected communities. Engaging in ... <a title="Nuclear-free Pacific advocates speak out in NZ human rights radio show" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/21/nuclear-free-pacific-advocates-speak-out-in-nz-human-rights-radio-show/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear-free Pacific advocates speak out in NZ human rights radio show">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark warned activists and campaigners in a speech on the deck of the Greenpeace environmental flagship Rainbow Warrior III last night to be wary of global “storm clouds” and the renewed existential threat of nuclear weapons. Speaking on her reflections on four decades after the bombing ... <a title="Keep fighting for a nuclear-free Pacific, Helen Clark warns Greenpeace over global storm clouds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/25/keep-fighting-for-a-nuclear-free-pacific-helen-clark-warns-greenpeace-over-global-storm-clouds/" aria-label="Read more about Keep fighting for a nuclear-free Pacific, Helen Clark warns Greenpeace over global storm clouds">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Israel’s key enablers, the G7, plus Australia and New Zealand, have succeeded in muscling Israel back onto the invite list for the commemorations in Nagasaki on August 9. Last year Israel was excluded, triggering a refusal by these countries to attend in ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Nagasaki now a celebration of Israeli genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/eugene-doyle-nagasaki-now-a-celebration-of-israeli-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Nagasaki now a celebration of Israeli genocide">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985 — less than two months before the bombing. Image: ©1985 David Robie/Eyes of Fire He accused the coalition government of being “too timid” and “afraid of offending President Donald Trump” to make a stand on the ... <a title="David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/david-robie-new-zealand-must-do-more-for-pacific-and-confront-nuclear-powers/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had evacuated the entire population of 320 from Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. After conducting dozens of above-ground nuclear explosions, the US government had left the ... <a title="The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/07/the-rainbow-warrior-saga-part-2-nuclear-refugees-in-the-pacific-the-evacuation-of-rongelap/" aria-label="Read more about The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free policy as a “fundamental tenet” of its independent foreign policy in the face of gathering global storm clouds. Writing in a new book being published next week, she says “nuclear war is an existential threat to ... <a title="Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/30/clark-warns-in-new-pacific-book-renewed-nuclear-tensions-pose-existential-threat-to-humanity/" aria-label="Read more about Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’">Read more</a>
