A packed-out public meeting called for AUKUS to be cancelled, because it makes war on China a greater risk while making Australia more complicit in United States-led war crimes. Peter Boyle reports.
Pine Gap
NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge told Suzanne James听that听Israel and the United States鈥櫶齛ttacks on Iran were 鈥渙utright illegal鈥, with 鈥渘o evidence鈥 that Iran is close to having nuclear weapons.
Greens spokesperson for foreign affairs, peace and nuclear disarmament, David Shoebridge, speaks to 一品探花's Suzanne James.
United States President Donald Trump鈥檚 decision to order a snap review of AUKUS has spurred opposition to AUKUS here, including from less likely quarters. Kerry Smith reports.
Socialist Alliance condemns Israel鈥檚 deadly escalation of its war and terrorism in Lebanon and calls on the Anthony Albanese Labor government to respect international law and immediately do the same.
Labor keeps repeating the lie that it is not sending weapons to Israel. Sam Wainwright,听on behalf of Stop AUKUS WA, outlined听how Australia is complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Video by Alex Salmon.
A formal complaint has been lodged with听the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security听about possible Australian complicity in what the International Court of Justice听regards as 鈥減lausible claims of genocide in Gaza鈥.听Pip Hinman reports.
Bevan Ramsden asks whether federal Labor鈥檚 fears of another听United States intervention in domestic politics, such under Gough Whitlam, underpins its enthusiastic acceptance of AUKUS?
On December 9, 1966, the Australian government signed a public agreement with the United States to build what both countries misleadingly called a 鈥淛oint Defence Space Research Facility鈥 at Pine Gap, just outside Alice Springs.
Officially, Pine Gap is a collaboration between the Australian Department of Defence and the Pentagon鈥檚 Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. In听reality this conceals the real purpose of Pine Gap as a CIA-run spy base designed to collect signals from US surveillance satellites in geosynchronous orbit over the equator.
Since US President Donald Trump鈥檚 inauguration, there has been a spike in commentary about the increasing risk of a war in our region 鈥 a war that could involve the US and China. As things stand, it would be impossible for Australia to avoid involvement in such a war. That is a reality we must urgently confront.
The six 鈥減eace pilgrims鈥 who were arrested last September on the Pine Gap US military intelligence base, near Alice Springs, have now received court summons.
Jim Dowling, Andy Paine, Tim Webb and Franz Dowling of Brisbane and Margaret Pestorius and Paul Christie of Cairns are each charged with trespass under the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act and face maximum penalties of between seven and 14 years in prison.
Early on September 29 peace activists blockaded the Raytheon facility in Alice Springs. Four activists locked onto the gates of the facility preventing employees from entering.
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