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.

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.

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.

The strangest thing about NZ’s culture war Right is how fiercely they defend the wealthy elites exploiting them.

National’s vision of AI-powered public services sounds less like innovation and more like automating neglect.

The Treaty rewrite agenda is too sweeping, too coordinated and too well-funded to simply be dismissed as populist politics.