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.
Pine Gap
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.
This action is one in a series of protests against the military-industrial complex that supplies the joint US-Australian military base at Pine Gap.
Three 鈥淨uaker Grannies for Peace鈥 set up breakfast on the road to Pine Gap on September 26 and invited military personnel arriving for work at the base to sit down with them.
The action is one of a series of events marking the 50th anniversary of the secret US military facility at Pine Gap, by groups advocating for the base鈥檚 closure.
The Pine Gap military spy base was established 50 years ago on the traditional lands of the Arrernte people, about 20 kilometres outside of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory.
Pine Gap is supposedly a joint US-Australian defence facility, but very little of it is 鈥渏oint鈥 or 鈥渄efence鈥 related.
Under the cover of thick clouds and blinding sun, a drone assignation takes place in the Middle East. Interception of internet messages leads US authorities to a 16-year-old Anonymous group member.
鈥淚n God we trust, all others we monitor鈥 鈥 Interceptor Operators motto, NSA study, Deadly Transmissions, December 1970.
This chilling quote perfectly summarises the model from which the United States founded their Big Brother approach to intelligence, as more documents leaked by National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden show Australia plays a crucial role in the United States global surveillance operations.