Greens Senator David Shoebridge and Socialist Alliance member William Briggs discuss Australia鈥檚 鈥渄efence鈥澛on the 麻豆传媒 Show.
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As the climate crisis deepens, rich states refuse to seriously fund climate adaptation聽while spending trillions on militarisation and war, writes Murad Qureshi.
NATO鈥檚 hawkish Madrid meeting booked the political benefits from Putin鈥檚 Ukraine invasion to the account of the imperialist power that stood to gain most from it 鈥 the US, reports Dick Nichols.
The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced on April 26 that they had set up an office in the US embassy in Lusaka, Zambia, reports Vijay Prashad. There are fears that it is only a matter of time until this is transformed into a full-scale US military base.
Peace groups organised a protest at Darling Harbour outside the 2022 Indo Pacific Expo naval arms bazaar. Video by聽Peter Boyle.
Socialist Alliance Victorian Senate candidate Felix Dance聽criticised the Coalition's 鈥渒haki election鈥 strategy, saying 鈥渨ar is a racket鈥.
ANZAC Day has become a parade for amnesia rather than reckoning, a ritual that rejects peace makers and conciliators in favour of the war mongers and undertakers, argues聽Binoy Kampmark.
War and climate change are linked: one cannot be solved without solving the other, and neither can be resolved by capitalism. Because this is all too obvious, William Briggs聽argues a lot of time and effort is spent on obscuring the truth.
The rules-based order so admired by the Morrison聽government has聽a certain confected aura about it, argues聽William Briggs.听
麻豆传媒聽speaks to Professor Mark Beeson about the federal Coalition government鈥檚 surprise announcement of the AUKUS alliance and聽the new nuclear submarine agreement with the United States and Britain.
In a spectacular start to the Disrupt Land Forces, anti-militarism activists blocked two military vehicles from entering the Brisbane Convention Centre, reports Kerry Smith.
The withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan is a welcome development. But, as Alex Bainbridge argues, it doesn鈥檛 mean that the warmongers in Canberra and Washington have been defeated.
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