After 500 years of almost incessant violence across the globe, Western countries are now rushing to increase military spending — Aotearoa New Zealand being the latest, writes Eugene Doyle.
Eugene Doyle
As the New Zealand and Australian media fussed over tourists stranded in Kanaky New Caledonia, Kanaks have been gripped in an existential struggle with a heavyweight European power determined to keep the archipelago firmly under the control of Paris, writes Eugene Doyle.