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How Australia helps the U.S. destabilize Asia
September 15 marked the third anniversary of the announcement of the AUKUS (Australia, the UK, the U.S.) agreement.
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On the need to dismantle the settler-colonial bloc at the UN
What do two South Pacific countries, two North American countries, one country in the Middle East, and (until recently) one country in southern Africa have in common with Europe?
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Loss of empire, loss of lucidity
As the United States’ imperial system and Western hegemony circles the drain, lucid thought is becoming a rare commodity. But there is hope.
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The Pacific lands and seas are neither forbidden nor forgotten: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2024)
A powerful struggle is taking place in Kanaky (New Caledonia) between the indigenous people and French colonial authorities. In the background, the US-led militarisation of the Pacific intensifies.
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Hell, maybe ANYTHING is possible
The thing that stands out for me the most when watching the deeply moving footage of Julian Assange arriving home to Australia is how impossible this all felt until it happened.
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Shifting power: New Zealand on U.S. decline
After meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken last April, New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, said that the two countries had pledged “to work ever more closely together in support of shared values and interests.” In recent moves exemplifying this support, New Zealand has deployed a targeting team to a United States-led coalition conducting strikes against Yemen, extended its military participation in the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine, and is considering membership of AUKUS, the anti-China military agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Will the Cocos Islands become like Diego Garcia, highjacked by the U.S.?
The 2000 residents of Diego Garcia were forcibly removed to make way for a giant U.S. military base.
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United States assembles the squad against China
In early April 2024, the navies of four countries—Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States—held a maritime exercise in the South China Sea. Australia’s Warramunga, Japan’s Akebono, the Philippines’ Antonio Luna, and the United States’ Mobile worked together in these waters to strengthen their joint abilities and—as they said in a joint statement—to “uphold the right to freedom of navigation and overflight and respect for maritime rights under international law.”
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Asian ‘NATO’ encircles China
The U.S.-steered Aukus military alliance is cranking up hostilities by inviting Japan into the anti-China pact, writes FIONA EDWARDS of the No Cold War campaign
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Coral catastrophe signals our own undoing
Five times in the history of life on Earth the corals have perished, swept from the board by conditions hostile to nearly all life. Each time, it has taken them millions of years to evolve anew. Each mass death of corals has been accompanied by the mass deaths of most other species, on land and at sea.
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The billionaire ‘nepo baby’ boom
In every country and culture, capitalism depends on an ideological mirage of equal opportunity and reward for effort, to conceal, as much as possible, the reality of brutal exploitation and inequality.
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Rich whingers dominate Australian politics
Australia’s richest people are by far the country’s biggest whingers.
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Britain condemned for launching ‘largest raid so far on Yemen’
‘The violent repercussions of Israel’s war on Gaza are spreading across the Middle East, threatening a much wider conflict,’ Stop the War says.
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In one of last interviews, John Pilger calls for an “insurrection of banned knowledge”
Since his death on December 30, tributes have been pouring in for John Pilger, an Australian journalist who gave voice to the voiceless and had a talent for putting human tragedies into a political context.
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New Zealand Leaning to controversial AUKUS Alliance
As the new government of nuclear-free New Zealand leans towards joining the anti-China bloc, critics warn of weakened sovereignty in a sea of expanding militarization, Mick Hall reports.
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The Price of Water and the Ongoing Colonization of Nature: Australian Cases in Global Context
Competition over fresh, clean water supplies is leading corporations and their partners in government into situations that transform water from a useful common good to a scarce, exchangeable asset. This process of commodification and financialization is imbricated in an ongoing colonization of nature, one starkly illustrated in settler colonial contexts like Australia.
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A master of terror
The murky background of the likely next President of Indonesia may come to haunt Indonesia, and Australia.
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IPEF: New Cold War weapon backfires
U.S. President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) is the economic arm of his administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, aimed at countering China’s influence in the region.
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Australia’s Greens Party walks out of session in pro-Palestine protest
Greens Party leader Mehreen Faruqi calls out the Labor’s “weasel words” which “are not going to stop war crimes” by “Israel”.
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Australia’s constitutional referendum, the Israel-Palestine War and British imperialism
Critical reflections on the Australian 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum and the Israel-Palestine War in the context of British settler colonialism and imperialism.