SHADOW FLIGHTS: LEAKS REVEAL NEW U.S. ROUTE OF F-35 JET PARTS TO ISRAEL
Following last year’s revelations of the secret shipping of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel through Thailand from Sydney, new documents show that parts are now being routed onto passenger jets through the United States.
“WE WANT OUR LAND BACK”
Large community protests at the US’s Pine Gap spy base in Central Australia place the Australia-US military alliance under intense scrutiny.
THE MYTH OF A ‘JOINT’ PINE GAP
While Washington sets the priorities and commands decision-making, Australian operational staff at the base are outnumbered by Australian ‘guards and gardeners’.
CHINA & RUSSIA TARGETED IN BROADCASTERS ‘SOFT POWER’ PACIFIC PUSH
Australia and New Zealand are using their public broadcasters as ‘soft power’ in a geopolitical battle for the hearts and minds of the people of Pacific nations.
AUSTRALIA’S SECRET EMBRACE OF U.S. NUCLEAR PLANNING
Australia’s subterfuge around its anti-nuclear commitments keeps Australians in the dark about American nuclear weapons on our territory.
THE QUESTIONS NEVER ASKED BEHIND THE US-ISRAEL WAR ON IRAN
Australian media ignore the evidence as they regurgitate the official narrative that manufactures consent for US-led wars.
LIFTING THE SECRECY AROUND PLANS TO CENSOR JOURNALISTS
By framing censorship as ‘voluntary’, Australian security officials aim to manage the flow of defence and intelligence information without the unsightly friction of overt legal compulsion.
HIGHLIGHTS
This ‘Top Secret’ NSA map shows XKeyScore surveillance facilities located in The Asia-Pacific region. Australia has four XKS posts at Pine Gap (Rainfall) near Alice Springs, Geraldton in Western Australia, Shoal Bay near Darwin, & HMAS Harman in Canberra. New Zealand has one at Waihopai satellite interception station (Ironsand). (Image: NSA, via Edward Snowden)
See more in’ ‘EYES OVER THE PACIFIC‘.
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UNDERSTANDING EMPIRE: U.S. MILITARY IN AUSTRALIA
The public is awakening to how the United States is involving Australia in its empire plans.
THE IRAN WAR: BATTLEFIELD INTELLIGENCE, BEFORE BOOTS ON THE GROUND
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 REMAINS COMMITTED TO TRADING WITH ISRAEL
Despite the copious amounts of evidence showing Israeli war crimes in Gaza and beyond, the Albanese government is determined to deepen trade ties with Israel.
THE NEW EMPIRE OF THE UNITED STATES
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.
AUSTRALIA IGNORING MORAL RED LINES WITH UNREGULATED AI WARFARE
With Australia failing to acknowledge the humanitarian risks of weaponising AI, the Australian government seems unwilling to place any limits on devastating autonomous weapons.
AUSTRALIA TRIALS ISRAELI WEAPON SYSTEM ‘BATTLE TESTED’ IN GAZA
The ADF is evaluating an Israeli-made AI precision targeting system ‘proven in combat’ in Gaza.
SELLING OUT OUR SOVEREIGNTY
Revelations of secret F-35 fighter jet parts shipments to Israel have exposed a yawning hole in Australia’s sovereign national defence.
THE COUP
After 50 years, new revelations are adding to what we know of the American interference in Australia to bring down the Whitlam government, but there is already much on the public record.
REVEALED: SECRET PLANS TO INTRODUCE MEDIA CENSORSHIP IN AUSTRALIA
Moves to restrict just what journalists can report on defence and intelligence matters are underway – and journalists need to get up to speed fast.
PROTEST AND POWER ON THE ROAD TO PINE GAP
Pine Gap protesters walk free as Crown Prosecutor acknowledges the “systematic annihilation” of the Palestinian people.
SECRET CARGO: INSIDE AUSTRALIA’S COVERT F-35 PARTS PIPELINE TO ISRAEL
At least 68 shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts have been flown on commercial passenger planes to Israel from Australia as recently as last month, leaked documents reveal.
DOCUMENTS REVEAL AUSTRALIA’S KNOWING SILENCE TO PLANS FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING OF GAZA
Internal Foreign Affairs documents reveal the extent of government knowledge of our closest ally’s complicity with Israel’s intentions of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.