The Anthony Albanese government’s support for the United States–Israel war on Iran rests on claims about nuclear threat, humanitarian intent and non-involvement that do not withstand scrutiny. David Shoebridge highlights three lies.
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Polling shows most people — 61% — oppose Labor’s support for war on Iran, with only 13% in favour and just 29% endorsing the United States-Israeli strikes. Kerry Smith reports.
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Asked to sum up Australia’s geopolitical situation, Renfrey Clarke argues that we’re in bed with an axe murderer, with the complicity of Australia’s military establishment, backed by the rich and powerful.
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Binoy Kampmark looks behind United States President Donald Trump’s controversial announcement on resuming nuclear testing, including the internal push for the US to modernise its nuclear arsenal.
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Nuclear obsession warps our thinking about truth. Nuclear armed countries establish so-called red lines around their weapons and yet accept genocide in Palestine, aggression in Ukraine and civil wars in numerous other countries, argues Tony Smith.
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Israel’s pre-emptive, illegal strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure was not just an attempt to arrest an alleged existential threat from yielding fruit, it is a murderous exercise of institutional decapitation, argues Binoy Kampmark.
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The new blockbuster film Oppenheimer has raised complex questions on the nature of the society that permitted such bombs to be developed and used and the stockpiling of nuclear arsenals that can destroy the world many times over, writes Prabir Purkayastha.
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Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong told Senate estimates that she was happy to defer to Washington on whether or not the B52s stationed in Australia would carry nuclear weapons. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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The setting of the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight reflects the consensus that Russia's Ukraine invasion has brought the world closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1980s. Here is the plan proposed by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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The Doomsday Clock has crept the closest it is ever been as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the minute hand to 90 seconds to midnight. Paul Gregoire reports.
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The United States has unveiled its latest deadly weapon of aggression in the Indo-Pacific, reports Binoy Kampmark.
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The so-called China threat was discussed at a webinar on November 30 of around 150 people. Jim McIlroy reports.