Forty years after agents from France’s secret service bombed the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior as it was moored in Auckland Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand, award‑winning journalist David Robie has released a fully updated anniversary edition of his book Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior, writes Ben Radford.
David Robie
David Robie joins the Green Left Show to discuss the current revolt in Kanaky/New Caledonia.
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.