This episode features Sam Wainwright, Socialist Alliance national co-convenor, responding to United States Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell鈥檚 revealing claim that AUKUS submarines would be used to fight a US conflict in China.
anti-China war drive
Less than a month after Lee Jong-sup was appointed South Korea's (RoK's) ambassador to Australia, he was forced to resigned on March 29, amidst protests in South Korea and Australia. Seona Cho, an activist with Melbourne Candlelight Action, explains the background to this scandal and its links to the growing ties between US, Australian and South Korean arms manufacturers.
Amid rising tensions in the Asia-Pacific, Japan鈥檚 government is ramping up defence spending. Japanese revolutionary socialist Akira Kato discusses the background to this move with 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Federico Fuentes.
Promise Li is a socialist from Hong Kong currently based in Los Angeles, and a member of US socialist organisations Tempest and Solidarity. In the second part of our interview, he discusses multipolarity and its implications for anti-war and anti-imperialist organising, with 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Federico Fuentes.
Visiting Pacific peace activists Monaeka Flores (from Guahan/Guam) and Shinako Oyakawa (from Okinawa) warn that the United States military expansion in the Pacific has the dystopian objective of 鈥渨inning鈥 a nuclear war at the expense of the people on whose land these military bases are sited, reports Peter Boyle.
Secret United States government documents leaked onto social media platform Discord reveal how the US and its military is striving to reestablish hegemony 鈥 targeting adversaries and pressuring allies, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.
South Korea鈥檚 far-right President Yoon Suk Yeol is rushing South Korea headlong into the middle of the new Cold War that the United States is waging against China, argue Dae-Han Song and Alice S Kim.
John Pilger recalls the "electric" opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why there is "a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda" today as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.
What began as an overblown diplomatic response by Washington to a Chinese surveillance balloon that drifted across the continental United States, before being shot down over the Atlantic Ocean, has morphed into a major confrontation, writes Barry Sheppard.
The United States鈥 plan to deploy six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to the Tindal Air Base near Darwin reminds us that war madness remains as real as ever, argues聽Peter Boyle.