Large community protests at the US’s Pine Gap spy base in Central Australia place the Australia-US military alliance under intense scrutiny.
Large community protests at the US’s Pine Gap spy base in Central Australia place the Australia-US military alliance under intense scrutiny.
While Washington sets the priorities and commands decision-making, Australian operational staff at the base are outnumbered by Australian ‘guards and gardeners’.
Australia’s subterfuge around its anti-nuclear commitments keeps Australians in the dark about American nuclear weapons on our territory.
Australian media ignore the evidence as they regurgitate the official narrative that manufactures consent for US-led wars.
The public is awakening to how the United States is involving Australia in its empire plans.
Australia’s role in supporting the US-Israel war against Iran with the hosting of a string of US military bases across the country is a critical contribution to the US war machine.
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.
With Australia failing to acknowledge the humanitarian risks of weaponising AI, the Australian government seems unwilling to place any limits on devastating autonomous weapons.
Revelations of secret F-35 fighter jet parts shipments to Israel have exposed a yawning hole in Australia’s sovereign national defence.
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