COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone It’s bizarre how little mainstream attention is given to the fact that the President of the United States has repeatedly confessed to being bought and owned by the world’s richest Israeli, especially given how intensely fixated his political opposition was on the possibility that he was compromised by a foreign government […] The post Trump keeps admitting that he is bought and owned by the world’s richest Israeli appeared first on Café Pacific | Davi...| Café Pacific | David Robie
Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Israel’s government has approved the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, that includes a pause in Israeli attacks and the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons — 20 living hostages were freed today coinciding with President Trump’s visit to Israel […] The post After Gaza ceasefire, ‘massive political pressure’ needed to prevent Israel from restarting war appeared first on Café Pacif...| Café Pacific | David Robie
By Jonathan Cook: Anniversaries are often a cause for celebration. But who could have imagined back in October 2023 that we would now be marking the two-year anniversary of a genocide, documented in the minutest detail on our phones every day for 24 months?| Café Pacific | David Robie
PSNA’s Minto hits back at Gaza ‘genocide hotline’ critics, insists NZ should deny Israeli soldiers entry| Café Pacific | David Robie
ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on August 25. As a freelance photographer and videographer, she had captured the suffering in Gaza through indelible images of malnourished children and grief-stricken families. In her will, she told her colleagues not to […] The post Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them? appeared first on Café Pacific | Davi...| Café Pacific | David Robie
Reporters Without Borders In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement Avaaz, more than 250 news outlets from over 70 countries simultaneously blacked out their front pages and website homepages, and interrupt their broadcasting to condemn the murder of journalists by the Israeli army in the Gaza […] The post 250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli killing of journalists in Gaza ...| Café Pacific | David Robie
Pacific Media Watch Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes by the Israeli army against journalists in the Gaza Strip as part of a worldwide action by the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders and the community politics organisation Avaaz. On August 25, one […] The post Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today appeared first on Café Pacific | David Robie.| Café Pacific | David Robie
Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet ministers in an open letter to “act decisively” to protect Gaza journalists and a free press. “These are principles to which New Zealand has always laid claim and which are […] The post NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists appeared first on Café Pacific | David Robie.| Café Pacific | David Robie
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Canberra will be expelling the Iranian ambassador and legislating to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a “terrorist group”. Albanese says the move is because an assessment by the intelligence agency ASIO has concluded that Iran used a “complex web of proxies” […] The post 21 questions about the claim that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia appeared first on...| Café Pacific | David Robie
By David Robie: Last Saturday, 16 August 2025, I spoke at this Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) rally in the wake of the shocking targeted assassination of six journalists -- four of them working for the Al Jazeera network -- and another person in Gaza City.| Café Pacific | David Robie
Pacific Media Watch Three media commentators addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality of news reporting about the world’s biggest genocide crisis this century. Speakers at other locations around the country also condemned what they said was biased media coverage. The critics said […] The post Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media appeared first on Café Pacific | Da...| Café Pacific | David Robie
Democracy Now!: Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the most prominent journalists in Gaza, the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, along with four of his colleagues at the network and another freelance journalist.| Café Pacific | David Robie
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.| Café Pacific | David Robie
