Independent Analysis and Reportage
Political scientist Paul G. Buchanan and journalist/analyst Selwyn Manning deliver their latest podcast A View from Afar. This episode: AUKUS, should New Zealand and other Asia Pacific nations join this security pact? And if not, why not?
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Daniel Kovalik Miami On December 12 to 13, 2022, an evidentiary hearing in the case of The United States v. Alex Saab was heard before Judge Robert Scola in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The only issue in the hearing was the question ... <a title="Saab Hearing Proves He Deserves Diplomatic Immunity, Exposes Prosecution’s Duplicity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/17/saab-hearing-proves-he-deserves-diplomatic-immunity-exposes-prosecutions-duplicity/" aria-label="Read more about Saab Hearing Proves He Deserves Diplomatic Immunity, Exposes Prosecution’s Duplicity">Read more</a>
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage William Camacaro, CaracasFrederick Mills, Washington DC “It is no longer possible, in the case of America, to continue with the Monroe Doctrinenor with the slogan ‘America for the Americans.’”Andrés Manuel López Obrador December 3, 2023 will mark the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. It will also mark ... <a title="Decolonization, Multipolarity, and the Demise of the Monroe Doctrine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/07/decolonization-multipolarity-and-the-demise-of-the-monroe-doctrine/" aria-label="Read more about Decolonization, Multipolarity, and the Demise of the Monroe Doctrine">Read more</a>
RNZ Pacific The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution aimed at assisting the Marshall Islands to get justice in the aftermath of the United States nuclear testing. “We have suffered the cancer of the nuclear legacy for far too long and we need to find a way forward to a better future ... <a title="UNHRC adopts resolution to help Marshall Islands over nuclear legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/11/unhrc-adopts-resolution-to-help-marshall-islands-over-nuclear-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about UNHRC adopts resolution to help Marshall Islands over nuclear legacy">Read more</a>
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya Sixty years ago today — on 15 August 1962 — the fate of a newly born nation-state West Papua was stolen by men in New York. The infamous event is known as “The New Agreement”, a deal between the Netherlands and Indonesia over West Papua’s sovereignty. A different fate had been ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/yamin-kogoya-west-papuas-colonial-fate-un-new-york-agreement/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’">Read more</a>
COMMENTARY: By John Minto The last 10 days has seen the entire media focus (aside from the ubiquitous concern for the All Black prospects in a rugby test and then the fate of coach Ian Foster) has been on allegations of bullying by new opposition National MP Sam Uffindell and bullying of first term Labour ... <a title="John Minto: RNZ and the news media – asking the hard questions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/17/john-minto-rnz-and-the-news-media-asking-the-hard-questions/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: RNZ and the news media – asking the hard questions">Read more</a>
By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva Climate change remains the single greatest existential threat facing the Blue Pacific, as leaders concluded the biggest diplomatic regional meeting in Suva last week with a plea for the world to take urgent action to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. While renewed commitments by Australia to reduce its carbon ... <a title="Pacific leaders call on world to take urgent climate action for island region’s ‘survival’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/18/pacific-leaders-call-on-world-to-take-urgent-climate-action-for-island-regions-survival/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders call on world to take urgent climate action for island region’s ‘survival’">Read more</a>
COMMENTARY: By Megan Darby, editor of Climate Home News When it comes to the world’s two biggest emitters, we are caught between a secretive autocracy and an oversharing corrupted democracy. Most media attention is focused on the latter. The United States this week raised hopes of a compromise climate spending bill and quashed it again ... <a title="Climate rivalry between secretive autocracy and corrupted democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/17/climate-rivalry-between-secretive-autocracy-and-corrupted-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Climate rivalry between secretive autocracy and corrupted democracy">Read more</a>
RNZ Pacific United States Vice-President Kamala Harris has assured Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting in the Fiji capital Suva that Washington will “significantly deepen” its engagement in the region. Harris joined the regional leaders today to announce half a dozen new commitments to signal America’s renewed commitment to the region. The commitments included the establishment ... <a title="US tells Pacific leaders it will ‘deepen commitment’ to the region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/14/us-tells-pacific-leaders-it-will-deepen-commitment-to-the-region/" aria-label="Read more about US tells Pacific leaders it will ‘deepen commitment’ to the region">Read more</a>
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Patrick Synan Boston As the trial of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández proceeds,[1] as Guatemalan Attorney General María Consuelo Porras begins her controversial second term,[2] and as the state of exception in El Salvador enters its 3rd month[3], progressive members of Congress and the Senate maintain ... <a title="Progressive Legislators Call to Cut Aid to Northern Triangle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/09/progressive-legislators-call-to-cut-aid-to-northern-triangle/" aria-label="Read more about Progressive Legislators Call to Cut Aid to Northern Triangle">Read more</a>
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Dan Kovalik Pittsburgh In his new memoir, Sacred Oath, former US Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, who served under President Donald Trump at the time of the arrest of Alex Saab in Cape Verde, effectively admits that the White House was quite aware of the fact that Saab ... <a title="New Revelations of Former US Secretary of Defense Confirm Illegality of the Extradition and Arrest of Diplomat Alex Saab" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/11/new-revelations-of-former-us-secretary-of-defense-confirm-illegality-of-the-extradition-and-arrest-of-diplomat-alex-saab/" aria-label="Read more about New Revelations of Former US Secretary of Defense Confirm Illegality of the Extradition and Arrest of Diplomat Alex Saab">Read more</a>
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis If you’re as confused as most people by the exact circumstances surrounding the continuing presence in Fiji of the Russian super yacht Amadea, join the club. Here’s our modest attempt to cut through the fog. Twelve days ago — on April 14 — the CJ Patel Fiji Sun newspaper trumpeted an ... <a title="Graham Davis: Behind the saga of the ‘seized’ Russian super yacht Amadea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/28/graham-davis-behind-the-saga-of-the-seized-russian-super-yacht-amadea/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: Behind the saga of the ‘seized’ Russian super yacht Amadea">Read more</a>