FREE-FIRE ZONE, WEST PAPUA

FREE-FIRE ZONE, WEST PAPUA

High-tech automated lethal drones and rocket-firing helicopter gunships of the Indonesian military are being used in attacks on indigenous villagers in West Papua – just a few hundred kilometres north of Australian territory.

KILLING BY ALGORITHM

KILLING BY ALGORITHM

Australia lacks adequate ethical restraints on its booming development of autonomous weapons that kill with minimal human input.

TRUTH LIES BLEEDING

TRUTH LIES BLEEDING

When two Reuters media workers were killed in Baghdad in the Iraq war, the US military moved rapidly to hide the truth – until WikiLeaks revealed the cover-up.

HIGHLIGHTS

‘Top Secret’ NSA map, this extract showing the Pacific Ocean and the XKeyScore surveillance facilities located in Australia and New Zealand and other nations.
The NSA surveillance facilities are located in Australia at Pine Gap (Rainfall) near Alice Springs, the signals intelligence satellite stations outside Geraldton in Western Australia, at Shoal Bay near Darwin, and at the HMAS Harman listening post in Canberra, and in at New Zealand’s Waihopai satellite interception station (Ironsand). (Image: NSA, via Edward Snowden) 
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THE TIME FOR LOUD DIPLOMACY – A COMMENTARY

THE TIME FOR LOUD DIPLOMACY – A COMMENTARY

Despite a year of grace given to the Prime Minister for ‘quiet diplomacy’ to work, the release of Julian Assange from political incarceration and extradition looks as remote as ever – so it seems it’s time to get out the loudhailer once more.

BOMBER’S REVOLVING DOORWAY

BOMBER’S REVOLVING DOORWAY

There is a never-ending conga line of politicians, intelligence, military and defence officials quick-stepping through revolving doorways onto the boards of lucrative military weapons companies.

WATCHING THE EYES

WATCHING THE EYES

A new history of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance ultimately provides cover for those nations’ modern day crimes.

SECRECY AND EMPIRE

SECRECY AND EMPIRE

Under the guise of protecting the national interest, Australia’s security establishment acts in secret to uphold the global US-led imperial order.