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January 3, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab As 2024 came to a close and we have stepped into a new year overshadowed by ongoing atrocities, have you stopped to consider how these events are reshaping your world? Did you notice how your future — and that of generations to ... <a title="Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab: The Palestine tragedy – why it should matter to you and our world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/katrina-mitchell-kouttab-the-palestine-tragedy-why-it-should-matter-to-you-and-our-world/" aria-label="Read more about Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab: The Palestine tragedy – why it should matter to you and our world">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with “murder as an act of terrorism” in his alleged shooting of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month. This news comes out at the same time as a Haaretz report titled “‘No Civilians. ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Where does the aggression really begin?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/21/caitlin-johnstone-where-does-the-aggression-really-begin/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Where does the aggression really begin?">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle What we are witnessing is not just the end of a regime but quite possibly the destruction of the Syrian state. We are being told by the Western media that we should join Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden and the Europeans in celebrating ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: The dismemberment of Syria is a crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/13/eugene-doyle-the-dismemberment-of-syria-is-a-crime/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: The dismemberment of Syria is a crime">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show with Syria and the aftermath of the historic collapse of the Assad regime. Israeli forces are continuing to attack key military sites, airports and army air bases in cities across Syria, including the capital Damascus. In just the ... <a title="‘Politics is finally possible’: After surprise fall of Syria’s Assad in protracted civil war, what’s next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/politics-is-finally-possible-after-surprise-fall-of-syrias-assad-in-protracted-civil-war-whats-next/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Politics is finally possible’: After surprise fall of Syria’s Assad in protracted civil war, what’s next?">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – REVIEW: By Giff Johnson in Majuro As a prelude to the 40th anniversary of the evacuation of Rongelap Islanders to Mejatto Island in Kwajalein in 1985, Radio New Zealand and ABC Radio Australia have produced a six-part podcast series that details the Rongelap story — in ... <a title="How Jeton Anjain planned the Rongelap evacuation – new Rainbow Warrior podcast series" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/how-jeton-anjain-planned-the-rongelap-evacuation-new-rainbow-warrior-podcast-series/" aria-label="Read more about How Jeton Anjain planned the Rongelap evacuation – new Rainbow Warrior podcast series">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2024
Keith Rankin – Opinion. Joe Biden struggled to understand why his presidency was unpopular; especially why so many regarded his economic legacy as weak when he thought it was strong. Indeed, by many of the conventional macroeconomic indicators Joe Biden’s economic policies were a success. Part of the problem is that much of that seeming ... <a title="Keith Rankin Opinion – Bidenomics and Luxonomics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/03/keith-rankin-opinion-bidenomics-and-luxonomics/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Opinion – Bidenomics and Luxonomics">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis “Flashpoint” in a foreign news story usually brings to mind the Middle East or the border between North and South Korea. It is not a term usually associated with New Zealand but last week it was there in headline type. News outlets around the world carried reports of the Hīkoi and ... <a title="Cynical politics reported on world stage damage NZ’s reputation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/27/cynical-politics-reported-on-world-stage-damage-nzs-reputation/" aria-label="Read more about Cynical politics reported on world stage damage NZ’s reputation">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2024
The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution — for the fourth time — in Israel’s war on Gaza, while Hezbollah demands a complete ceasefire and “protection of Lebanon’s sovereignty” in any deal with Israel. Amid the death and devastation, Joe Hendren reflects on his time in Lebanon and examines what the ... <a title="Kia kaha Lebanon: NZ media only tell half your story of struggle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/21/kia-kaha-lebanon-nz-media-only-tell-half-your-story-of-struggle/" aria-label="Read more about Kia kaha Lebanon: NZ media only tell half your story of struggle">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato and Claire Breen, University of Waikato With the protest hīkoi from the Far North moving through Rotorua on its way to Wellington, it might be said ACT leader David Seymour has been granted his wish of generating an “important national conversation about the place of the Treaty in ... <a title="NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/15/nzs-treaty-principles-bill-is-already-straining-social-cohesion-a-referendum-could-be-worse/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2024
Pacific Media Watch As thousands take to the streets this week to “honour” the country’s 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, the largest daily newspaper New Zealand Herald says the massive event is “redefining activism”. The Hīkoi mō te Tiriti has been underway since Sunday, with thousands of New Zealanders from all communities and walks of life ... <a title="NZ’s Hīkoi challenging controversial draft bill ‘redefines activism’, says Herald" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/14/nzs-hikoi-challenging-controversial-draft-bill-redefines-activism-says-herald/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Hīkoi challenging controversial draft bill ‘redefines activism’, says Herald">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Reverend James Bhagwan “We will not sign our death certificate. We cannot sign on to text that does not have strong commitments on phasing out fossil fuels.” These were the words of Samoa’s Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster, speaking in his capacity as chair of the Alliance of Small ... <a title="COP29: Pacific countries cannot be conveniently pigeonholed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/10/cop29-pacific-countries-cannot-be-conveniently-pigeonholed/" aria-label="Read more about COP29: Pacific countries cannot be conveniently pigeonholed">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Robert Reid The Enemy Within, by Maire Leadbeater is many things. It is: • A family history• A social history• A history of the left-wing in Aotearoa• A chilling reminder of the origin and continuation of the surveillance state in New Zealand, and• A damn good read. The book is a great example ... <a title="Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/09/behind-settler-colonial-nzs-paranoia-about-dissident-persons-of-interest/" aria-label="Read more about Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’">Read more</a>
