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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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The Humiliating Reason Sanctions On North Korea Have Failed To Achieve Anything Other Than Kill Civilians
Saturday, 31 January 2026, 4:18 pm | Eugene Doyle
I have been shocked by the reaction when I raise the lethal human cost of sanctions against North Korea with political figures I know. They tend to come back with a vociferous attack on the government in Pyongyang and its leader Kim Jong Un. Not ... More >>
North Korea Sanctions: NZ, Australia, The US Killed Thousands Of Civilians. They Have Achieved Nothing & Must Be Stopped
Thursday, 29 January 2026, 2:35 pm | Eugene Doyle
The UN Security Council adopted 2397 in 2017 after North Korea's (DPRK) launch of a Hwasong-15 ICBM. The effects of these sanctions were immediate and devastating on the civilian population. More >>
Carney’s Moment: Canada’s PM Emerges At A Moment Of Peril For The West
Thursday, 22 January 2026, 2:01 pm | Eugene Doyle
At a time when the US is led by a criminal toddler who can’t stop whining about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize even as he attacks country after country, it is refreshing to encounter a leader who thinks & speaks like a statesman of the first ... More >>
Iran - Wars Of Narratives, The Great Satan, The Evil Empire, Angels And Demons
Monday, 19 January 2026, 1:53 pm | Eugene Doyle
Othering is the Western way. Hated Others get what they deserve, particularly now under a US administration that has trashed international law. We are living through headspinning times. More >>
Iran In The Vortex – What’s Really Going On?
Friday, 16 January 2026, 1:21 pm | Eugene Doyle
This article recognises multiple perspectives, including those of an activist associated with the anti-government Woman Life Freedom movement whom I interviewed this week. More >>
The Russian Bear Is Coming To Eat Your Children
Tuesday, 23 December 2025, 7:35 pm | Eugene Doyle
Punishing the truth-tellers is now Western policy. The price demanded for honesty, for speaking truth to power, is getting higher and higher in the West. More >>
NATO: Prepare For War With Russia In 5 Years
Tuesday, 23 December 2025, 7:24 pm | Eugene Doyle
If there was a concern, a genuine concern, that war was coming, wouldn't you engage in intense negotiation? Wouldn’t you do everything possible to stop it? More >>
All The President’s Men: Treason, $100 Million Stolen Cash And Zelensky’s Kleptocratic Inner Circle
Friday, 21 November 2025, 3:15 pm | Eugene Doyle
In the West beatifying Zelensky is doctrinal fundamentalism. He has been crucially important to building support amongst Western voters for a war that is draining hundreds of billions of dollars away from productive activities in their own countries More >>
Chip Wars: The Dutch Government Nearly Crashed The Global Car Industry
Saturday, 15 November 2025, 5:13 am | Eugene Doyle
The Chip War has exposed how fragile the global semiconductor supply chain is when superpowers lock horns. More >>
In Ukraine’s Pokrovsk Narratives Have Collided With Brutal Realities
Friday, 7 November 2025, 6:33 pm | Eugene Doyle
The fall of Pokrovsk could lead to a further drop in support amongst ordinary Ukrainians, a majority of whom, according to Gallup, now want the war over. More >>
Venezuela And Trump’s War To Save The Ancien Régime
Sunday, 2 November 2025, 8:04 pm | Eugene Doyle
Whether we look at the Iran Contra scandal, Reagan’s funding of the infamous Honduran Battalion 316 or any of dozens of such organisations, the pattern is clear: where the US wishes to assert control via elites, death squads follow. More >>
Will The US Do To Venezuela’s Maduro What They Did To Gaddafi?
Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 5:15 pm | Eugene Doyle
Libya’s collapse turned it into a major route for hundreds of thousands to cross the sea to Europe. For people who don’t like refugees, the Europeans sure know how to create them. More >>
Keir Starmer’s Maccabi Outrage Should Get Him The Red Card
Wednesday, 22 October 2025, 3:43 pm | Eugene Doyle
The Safety Advisory Group (SAG), a group of professionals who examine the safety of public events, had written to the club to recommend that no Maccabi fans should be permitted entry. More >>
Palestinian Mandela Beaten Unconscious; Our Leaders Yawned And Looked Away
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 12:46 pm | Eugene Doyle
The ethno-centrism of Western culture is such that 20 Israeli hostages received vastly more coverage than thousands of Palestinian hostages, nearly 2000 of whom were released as part of the recent exchange. More >>
Nobel Peace Laureate Calls For U.S. Bombing Of Her Country
Monday, 13 October 2025, 8:06 am | Eugene Doyle
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, US’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, called Machado a supporter of anti-Muslim fascism and decried the award as ‘insulting and unacceptable”. More >>
October 7th: Part 2: Return Of The Hannibal Directive And The Genocide Starts Now!
Thursday, 9 October 2025, 3:13 pm | Eugene Doyle
Despite calling the Hamas fighters monsters for killing civilians, the cold reality is that the Israeli Defence Force killed a great many more civilians that day than Hamas. More >>
7 October 2023. Part 1: What Really Happened
Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 3:56 pm | Eugene Doyle
Thousands of Hamas Al Qassam fighters wake in the early hours to messages calling them to arms, directing them to assembly points across the Gaza Strip. For all but a few this is unexpected. Is it just another training exercise? More >>
October 7th Anniversary: Hamas Is Better Than Us
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 7:19 pm | Eugene Doyle
The violence of October 7th did not erupt from nowhere, nor did those who launched it (Hamas) control all the actions, including serious crimes, that occurred that day. More >>
The Infantilisation Of Western Grand Strategy – And The Rise Of Eurasia
Friday, 12 September 2025, 7:41 pm | Eugene Doyle
Despite the propaganda, the greatest threat Russia poses to Europe is not that it marches west but that it turns its back on the western periphery and builds a brighter future to the east. More >>
NATO In Asia-Pacific: Dragging Us Into A Fight We Can’t Win
Monday, 8 September 2025, 10:00 am | Eugene Doyle
The West is best-in-class when it comes to committing genocide, beating up African and Middle Eastern people who have third-rate militaries – but has proven inferior to the Russians in what the US admits is a proxy war in Ukraine. More >>
