The Barack Obama administration’s “Pivot to Asia” — the military, economic and political strategy to deploy more than half the US Navy to the Pacific — is continuing apace. Reihana Mohideen argues it needs to be resisted.
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Shirley Winton argues that we must build a long-term, sustainable people’s mass movement for peace, justice and a safe environment that does not serve US imperialism or any other hegemon.
The sabre rattling of the United States and its allies grows as capitalism’s crisis sharpens, writes William Briggs.
Many Australians are unaware that up to 2500 armed personnel from a foreign nation routinely occupy Australian territory. However, soon the next contingent of US marines will arrive in Darwin, writes Nick Deane.
It is extraordinary that foreign forces should be stationed in Australia in peacetime. There has been no such foreign presence here since the end of World War II. There is no threat to Australia, so there is no need for this presence.
