Binoy Kampmark writes that even the conservative think tank聽Strategic Analysis Australia is questioning the AUKUS deal. Meanwhile, Australia is being asked by the United States to do more for its 鈥渄efence鈥.
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As we witness the genocide in Gaza, and a world descending deeper into fascism and war, creative protest and coalition-building helps build a strong and sustainable peace movement, writes Alexander Brown.
Anthony Albanese is right that the Australian state has been sovereign for more than a century and its close military alliances with Britain and the US were not just struck freely, but enthusiastically. Peter Boyle argues that his big deceit is asserting that this is in our common interest.
Labor鈥檚 push to further tie Australia to US military ambitions, represented by AUKUS and the recent Talisman Sabre military exercises, puts us on a path to destruction, argues Pip Hinman.
This year marks 80 years since the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan,聽killing between 150,000 and 246,000 people and devastating two cities. Alexander Brown聽documents the history of the strong regional anti-war movement in the Illawarra.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is failing to win people to Labor鈥檚 commitment to the United States on AUKUS, which, as Peter Boyle argues, explains why he was less-than-honest in his John Curtin Oration speech.
The only beneficiaries of Australia鈥檚聽reversion to colonial subservience to an聽increasingly authoritarian United States president will be a small section of the political and corporate elite 鈥 and at huge cost to the majority, argues Peter Henning.
Despite Trump鈥檚 most extreme ramblings and declarations that he doesn鈥檛 care about international law, Labor is still going along with it, Sam Wainwright told the 一品探花 Show.
Anti-AUKUS protesters rallied against Australia鈥檚 military involvement with the United States in the Middle East outside the American Chamber of Commerce. Elias Boyle reports.
NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge told Suzanne James聽that聽Israel and the United States鈥櫬燼ttacks on Iran were 鈥渙utright illegal鈥, with 鈥渘o evidence鈥 that Iran is close to having nuclear weapons.
As Labor pitches AUKUS as an opportunity for 鈥渉igh tech鈥 jobs, the聽City of Newcastle聽is conducting a survey that urges respondents to approve of a missile factory, adjacent the Newcastle Airport/Williamtown Air Force base.
The strikes on Iran are the manifestation of a failing international order, where the 鈥渕utually binding rules-based order鈥 is being replaced by the pantomime of strongman politics, argues聽Academics for Palestine WA and Gwen Velge.
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