Category: Militarism

Pine Gap Readies for US Nuclear War

In Australia, the U.S. has been quietly expanding and refocussing its “most important surveillance base in the world,” preparing it to fight a nuclear war against China, writes Peter Cronau.

SCOTT RITTER: The Murder of Others

An atomic cloud hangs over the Japanese city of Nagasaki after the US dropped the second nuclear bomb on the country.

The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.

Vijay Prashad: Pacific Lands & Seas

A powerful struggle in New Caledonia between the indigenous people and French colonial authorities is taking place against the backdrop of intensifying U.S.-led militarisation of the Pacific.