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Eugene Doyle
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Eugene Doyle is a writer based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has written extensively on the Middle East, as well as peace and security issues in the Asia Pacific region.
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Disruption: Historians Challenge Russophobic Propaganda
Saturday, 29 March 2025, 6:07 pm | Eugene Doyle
The courage to oppose a dominant discourse comes at a price. Powerful forces are pressing in on academics and others who dare to express alternative views. Staying silent or parroting the party line is the safer option. More >>
Ukraine Deal. Beware Of Americans Bearing Gifts
Saturday, 1 March 2025, 7:01 pm | Eugene Doyle
Shortly after the on-camera shouting match, Trump said the deal was off and posted: “He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.” More >>
Yellow Peril! Red Peril! “We Cannot Hide Anymore”. Chinese Warships In The Tasman Sea
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 5:30 pm | Eugene Doyle
The Western media went into overdrive this past week to work the laconic Kiwis into a mild frenzy over three Chinese naval vessels conducting exercises in the Tasman Sea a few thousand kilometres off our shores. What was really behind this orchestrated ... More >>
Human Sacrifice: Remembering Aaron Bushnell
Sunday, 23 February 2025, 8:05 pm | Eugene Doyle
None of us should feel we have to make the kind of sacrifice that Aaron Bushnell made but all of us need to do that little bit more - if nothing else, than to save our own humanity from vanishing into the sea of indifference that Western culture ... More >>
The Demon In The Mirror. Trump Exposes Who We Are.
Friday, 6 December 2024, 2:34 pm | Eugene Doyle
When governments fail to clear the lowest bars of moral conduct, history demands that populations take action – that citizens don’t look away but step up and do everything it takes to force fundamental change, respect for human rights and ... More >>
Has WWIII Started?
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 7:13 pm | Eugene Doyle
We all need to evolve our psychology and think more like statesmen and stateswomen – and less like nutters. More >>
BBC Goes Full Goebbels In Support Of Israeli Soccer Hooligans
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 3:47 pm | Eugene Doyle
The BBC has proven itself to be an outrageously false & misleading outlet, peddling anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian propaganda dressed up as concern over anti-semitism. It has desecrated the memory of real victims – and most importantly it has shredded ... More >>
Exiting Pax Americana In The Asian Century
Wednesday, 21 August 2024, 9:40 am | Eugene Doyle
Most New Zealanders and Australians have little idea about the momentous changes coming to our region with most media keeping us in thrall to a US-Western world view. If we wish to survive and thrive in this region – and in the emerging multipolar More >>
Rape And Genocide: The Israeli War Machine We Support
Friday, 9 August 2024, 11:44 am | Eugene Doyle
The riots that occurred at the Sde Teiman Israeli detention centre in on 29 July, in support of soldiers arrested by the Israeli military police in connection with rape, torture and murder, must not be ignored. More >>
Team Genocide Walks Out On Nagasaki Commemorations
Friday, 9 August 2024, 9:05 am | Eugene Doyle
Last week the mayor of Nagasaki, Shiro Suzuki, rescinded Israel’s invitation to the annual peace ceremony commemorating the 1945 US nuclear bombing of his city. This week several Western countries announced their ambassadors would shun the commemorations of that bombing in solidarity with Israel. More >>
As Eurasia Awakes Our World Will Shake
Thursday, 1 August 2024, 2:52 pm | Eugene Doyle
To avoid volcanic eruptions, we need a smarter West embracing dialogue, diplomacy & equality because, like it or not, as was declared at SCO 2024: “Tectonic shifts are underway in global politics, economy, & other spheres of international relations. ... More >>
It’s Bigger Than NATO And It’s Heading Our Way
Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 5:26 pm | Eugene Doyle
New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it doesn’t need: gambling we can keep the strength and security of our trading relationship with China whilst leaping into the US anti-China military alliance. More >>
The Time Antony Blinken Went To Bed With Sergey Lavrov
Thursday, 11 July 2024, 4:32 pm | Eugene Doyle
The conflict is unlikely to be won on the battlefield; both sides have too much skin in the game. Peace will require diplomacy; diplomacy means talking. This childish refusal to talk to each other must end; they must grow up and go to bed with each ... More >>
Muzzling The Dogs Of War
Monday, 1 July 2024, 4:34 pm | Eugene Doyle
Listen to what the leaders in the West are saying. The time to stop the madness is now, not once the elites drive us into the abyss and civilians are stripped of all rights to oppose. More >>
US Shoots Itself With Own Super-Weapon
Monday, 24 June 2024, 3:36 pm | Eugene Doyle
By increasingly weaponizing the dollar and access to the dollar-denominated global trading system, America has taken to the greenback with a blowtorch that will trigger a reckoning for the ages. More >>
Shoot The Messenger, Kill The Story
Sunday, 16 June 2024, 2:17 pm | Eugene Doyle
Daniel Everett Hale killed lots of innocent people. He went to jail, not for killing people – he was paid to do that by the US government – but for revealing the truth behind it. Recently released, he has an astonishing story to tell. More >>
Are You Ready For WWIII? The Russians Are
Thursday, 6 June 2024, 4:33 pm | Eugene Doyle
We need facts, analysis and an insistence on dialogue and diplomacy before it is too late. George Orwell knew all about this problem. More >>
Shattered Theory: The War On Terror And Western Impunity
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 11:28 am | Eugene Doyle
Could the final act of the US’s Global War on Terror (GWOT) be the conviction of a US President for terrorism? Tantalising but implausible? Read on. More >>
The French Are At It Again: New Caledonia Is Kicking Off
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 5:11 pm | Eugene Doyle
As the New Zealand and Australian media fuss and bother over tourists stranded in New Caledonia, the Kanaks are gripped in an existential struggle with a heavyweight European power. We need better, deeper reporting from our media – one that provides ... More >>
We “Share Values” With People Committing Genocide
Saturday, 18 May 2024, 1:24 pm | Eugene Doyle
Western leaders like to talk about values, shared values, common values. More >>
