Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update – Discussing geopolitical and military activity in the Pacific
A new US-led Pacific “kill web” linking Japan, South Korea and the Philippines signals how rapidly the Indo-Pacific is militarising.

A new US-led Pacific “kill web” linking Japan, South Korea and the Philippines signals how rapidly the Indo-Pacific is militarising.

National has stopped pretending to be centrist. Six months before Election 2026, the cruelty is out in the open and the target is anyone too exhausted to fight back.

RNZ is suddenly worried about disinformation. Fine. But who is asking why foreign military intelligence infrastructure operated from Waihopai without ministers knowing?

Auckland’s roads are about to become pay-to-play, and the people least able to avoid peak-hour travel will be the ones hit hardest.

If Israel seized peace activists in international waters and they were then abused in custody, statements of concern are not enough. Accountability must follow.
Trump can’t bomb his way out of Iran, the Epstein Files or the economy, but that won’t stop him eyeing Cuba like the next cheap trophy.
The Democrats had the money, the consultants and the moral lectures. Trump had the anger. That should terrify them far more than it does.

Ben-Gvir taunting bound Western activists was not outside Israel’s values. It was the mask slipping on what occupation has done to Israel itself.

Nicola Willis says State House tenants won lotto. Te Kaupapa asks what that really means, and who has the numbers to win the North.

NZ corporate media gave itself another shiny dinner while the Fourth Estate burns, the BSA gets torched, RNZ gets threatened, and journalism is eaten alive.