The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network has launched an E-petition calling for the termination of the Force Posture Agreement. Bevan Ramsden reports.
Article: Promethean City Builders vs Finance Capital Malthusians: Multipolarists vs the Anglo-American Empire - The multipolar powers of China & Russia clearly have some of the values of the Enlightenment. These include developing the productive forces (the Belt Road Initiative), the defense of the nation-state and protecting home industries against invasion by imperialists. Who among the political tendencies in the West also stands for these values? It is neither the Republicans, Democrats nor the crypto-New Left.
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.
The ecological and social impacts of a new surge in global military spending will one of the discussions at the Ecosocialism 2023 conference in Naarm on July 1–2. Peter Boyle reports.
The defence minister claims the South China Sea is of vital national interest, because all trade with Japan and South Korea goes through it. David Brophy argues this is absurd, saying Canberra is spending billions of dollars to defend its trade with China from China.