The public is awakening to how the United States is involving Australia in its empire plans.
Jorgen Doyle is a freelance journalist and horticulturalist living in Mparntwe/ Alice Springs, Central Arrernte Country. He writes on the expansion of US and Australian military presence in Northern Australia, and is involved in local environmental justice and Palestine solidarity campaigns.
The public is awakening to how the United States is involving Australia in its empire plans.
Australia is being sold the narrative that US power projection both globally and here, is necessary for defence from evil empires. But through military, economic and political power, the United States is asserting itself as the new world empire.
The full plans are slowly emerging for a massive international nuclear waste dump – suitable for high-level nuclear waste and potentially military nuclear waste – proposed for Aboriginal land in Central Australia.
A U.S. military mega-contractor assisting an Australian company to develop a proposal for a nuclear waste dump in Central Australia has a flawed safety record in handling nuclear waste storage.