Back Door Proliferation: The IAEA, AUKUS and Nuclear Submarine Technology

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, September 19, 2022 Visit and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** In Vienna, China’s permanent mission to the United Nations has been rather exercised of late. Members of the mission have been particularly irate with the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director...

Australia and the Road to Nuclear War

By William Briggs Asia-Pacific Research, August 01, 2022 Green Left 27 July 2022 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** Australia’s pledge to play its part in the United States’ drive to war in the Indo-Pacific means it is hardly a surprise for China to voice its concerns. The...

Australia: Facial Recognition Technology Down Under

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, July 29, 2022 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** The language is far from reassuring.  Despite being caught red handed using facial recognition technology unbeknownst to customers, a number of Australia’s large retail companies have given a meek assurance...

Australia’s Former PM Scott Morrison Awaits the “Political Apocalypse”

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, July 24, 2022 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** The minds of defeated prime ministers are rarely pretty.  In some cases, they are damnably awful places, where ruins accumulate and dust gathers in wretchedness.  Such figures can become, by...

New Brooms, Old Stories: The Australian Labor Party and Julian Assange

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, June 03, 2022 Visit and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** After having a few lunches with Australia’s then opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, John Shipton felt reason to be confident.  Albanese had promised Assange’s father that he would do whatever he could, should he win office,...

Dutton’s Record: Building the Surveillance State in Australia

By Ugur Nedim Asia-Pacific Research, June 01, 2022 Green Left 31 May 2022 Visit and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** When Peter Dutton confirmed his candidacy for the leadership of the Liberal Party the public relations campaign to “soften” his image went into overdrive. The so-called “hard man” says he is...

Australia’s Barnaby Joyce: Election Gonzo and China Fears

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, May 12, 2022 Visit and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** Always looking, and sounding, a touch unhinged, the beetroot-coloured Barnaby Joyce, leader of the Australian Nationals and, for a time now, deputy prime minister, has made a splash.  With the federal elections being...

Australia’s Pacific Neglect: Distractions from Climate Change Security

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Asia-Pacific Research, May 02, 2022 Visit and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** The hysteria in Canberra and Washington over the Sino-Solomon Islands security pact has shown, again, how irrelevant the individual affairs of Pacific Island states are in the chess game of geopolitics. The...

Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand: The Slaughter of the Unthinking by the Unaccountable

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, April 25, 2022 Visit and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** Secular religions are hard to battle in terms of their misplaced assumptions.  In some ways, they are even harder to fight than those based on mythical gods and superstitious foundations, many drawn...

Forgotten Sovereignty: Hysteria and the Solomon Islands-China Security Pact

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, April 24, 2022 Visit and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** Visits to Honiara, part plea, part threat.  Delegations equipped with a note of harassment.  That was the initial Australian effort to convince the Solomon Islands that the decision to make a security pact with...

Cutting Scholarly Ties: The West, Ukraine, and the Russian Academy

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, March 08, 2022 Visit and follow us on Instagram at @globalresearch_crg. Today, the dangers of military escalation are beyond description. What is now happening in Ukraine has serious geopolitical implications. It could lead us into a World War III scenario. It is important that a peace process be initiated with a...

Antarctica: Where Realpolitik and Science Meet

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, February 25, 2022 Visit and follow us on Instagram at @globalresearch_crg. *** A frozen continent.  Another potential frontier for conflict and competition.  Antarctica is a part of the world were realpolitician meets scientist; the desire for finding exploitable resources meets environmental expectations and fears.  Countries have vied for their little slice...

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison Commits $804 Million Over a Decade for the Antarctic

By Prof. Michelle Grattan Asia-Pacific Research, February 21, 2022 The Conversation Visit and follow us on Instagram at @globalresearch_crg. *** Scott Morrison on Tuesday will announce $804.4 million over a decade to strengthen Australia’s strategic and scientific capabilities in the Antarctic. The funding, including for drones, helicopters and vehicles, will enable Australia’s to penetrate inland areas of...

Funeral Rites for COVID Zero

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Asia-Pacific Research, October 15, 2021 It was such a noble public health dream, even if rather hazy to begin with.  Run down SARS-CoV-2.  Suppress it.  Crush it.  Or just “flatten the curve”, which could have meant versions of all the above.  This created a climate of numerical sensitivity: a few case infections...

Imperialist Tensions: AUKUS Makes Workers Pay for War with China

By Mick Armstrong Global Research, October 01, 2021Red Flag 23 September 2021 We are witnessing an aggressive build-up by the US and its allies for a confrontation with China. The Biden administration is making massive upgrades to the US’s military capacity, and sharply reorienting it to focus on China. At the same time, the US is waging...

Video: Cops for Covid Truth: Message from Alexander Cooney to All Police Officers in Australia

By Alexander Cooney Global Research, September 30, 2021Illya O'Shea 24 September 2021 Watch Alexander Cooney, an ex-Senior Constable NSW Police Force Highway Patrol, share his message to all police officers in Australia. https://youtu.be/iRMEbN7jk3s https://www.youtube.com/embed/iRMEbN7jk3sVideo: Similarities Of Medical Abuse In 1930’s Germany With Todays Covid19 Policies Related Articles Journalists and Dissent Under Attack In The United States 26 January...

The Living Dead Pax Americana. War Inc. Rules. Cold War 2.0 against China

Perth in Australia will be a forward base for nuclear-powered and nuclear weapon-carrying American subs, Pepe Escobar writes. By Pepe Escobar Global Research, September 30, 2021Strategic Culture Foundation 29 September 2021 Pax Americana was always a minor character in a zombie apocalypse flick. Pax Americana is actually The Eternal Return of the Living Dead. “Pax” was never...

Stop the Covid Holocaust! Open Letter

We call upon you to stop this ungodly medical experiment on humankind immediately By Rabbi Hillel Handler, Hagar Schafrir, and et al. Global Research, September 26, 2021 Sent to: European Medical Agency  (EMA), European Union The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), U.K. The Australian Health Regulation Agency, AHPRA, Australia Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Australia Medsafe, New...

Australian Government Shuts Down Melbourne Construction Sites Amid Protests over Vaccine Mandates

Following violent demonstrations this week, officials in the state of Victoria closed jobsites for at least two weeks. By Jennifer Goodman Asia-Pacific Research, September 24, 2021Construction Dive 22 September 2021 All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Visit...

The Revenge of White Colonialism Motivates the AUKUS Alliance Against China

By Danny Haiphong Asia-Pacific Research, September 23, 2021Friends of Socialist China The United States, United Kingdom, and Australia have formed an alliance called “AUKUS” to create, in the words of Australia PM Scott Morrison, “a partnership where our technology, our scientists, our industry, our defense forces are all working together to deliver a safer and more secure...

Joe Biden: Nuclear Sorcerer’s Apprentice

By Manlio Dinucci Global Research, September 21, 2021 President Biden announced the birth of AUKUS, a strategic-military partnership between the United States, Great Britain and Australia, with “the imperative of ensuring long-term peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific”, the region that in Washington’s geopolitics extends from the West coast of the United States to the coast...

Why Is Southeast Asia So Concerned About AUKUS and Australia’s Plans for Nuclear Submarines?

By Prof. James Chin Asia-Pacific Research, September 20, 2021The Conversation 20 September 2021 The announcement of a new strategic alliance between Australia, the US and UK (AUKUS) has caught many by surprise. Besides France, which reacted with fury over Australia’s scrapping of a major submarine deal with a French company, few countries were as surprised as Australia’s neighbours to...

‘AUKUS’ Military Alliance Is Another Western Attempt to Isolate China

The ever-denser web of military interconnections that Washington is weaving is going to lead straight to Cold War. By Sarang Shidore Global Research, September 17, 2021Responsible Statecraft The announcement that the United States and the United Kingdom will help Australia build nuclear submarines, enhance U.S. troop presence, and jointly collaborate on cyber, artificial intelligence, and quantum technologies has been...

Australia Continues Its Plunge Into Authoritarianism And Military Brinkmanship

By Caitlin Johnstone September 16, 2021 -- "Information Clearing House - Australia has joined the US and UK in an “enhanced trilateral security partnership” called AUKUS with the unspoken-yet-obvious goal of coordinating escalations against China. Antiwar reports: President Biden and the leaders of Australia and the UK announced a new military agreement on Wednesday aimed at countering China. The pact, known...

Sinophobia Meets Prison Labor in a Think Tank Down Under

By Pepe Escobar September 14, 2021 -- "Information Clearing House -  The West has been literally swamped by a non-stop propaganda offensive about Uyghur forced labor camps – thoroughly debunked, for instance, here. Now let’s examine the other – Western - side of the story.   In early 2021, Defense for Children (DCI) took the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) to court...

Aussie Public Health Chief Says COVID Contact Tracing Is Part of “New World Order”

By Paul Joseph Watson Global Research, September 10, 2021InfoWars 9 September 2021 *** During a press conference, Australian public health chief Dr. Kerry Chant remarked, “We will be looking at what contact tracing looks like in the New World Order.” The comments were made during the same briefing in which Premier Gladys Berejiklian said that unvaccinated people would remain under lockdown indefinitely....

Australia’s Health Chief Dr. Chant: COVID Will be with Us “Forever”, People Will Have to “Get Used to” Endless Booster Vaccines

Little hope on the horizon for inmates of ‘prison island’. By Paul Joseph Watson Global Research, September 08, 2021Summit News 6 September 2021 *** Australian health chief Dr. Kerry Chant says that COVID will be with us “forever” and people will have to “get used to” taking endless booster vaccines. The New South Wales Chief Health Officer made the...

Australia: Weaponized Refugees and Hybrid Attacks

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Asia-Pacific Research, September 07, 2021 All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version).  Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. *** Refugees and asylum seekers provide rich pickings for demagogues and political opportunists.  The...

In the Name of ‘Public Safety’ Australia Descends Into a Nightmarish Orwellian Police State

These days even man’s best friend seems to have it better than the people struggling to survive Down Under, Robert Bridge writes. By Robert Bridge Asia-Pacific Research, September 06, 2021Strategic Culture Foundation 25 August 2021 All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our...

Patriotic Snitch: Australia’s Long Serving Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke as US Informant

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, September 06, 2021 All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. *** Larrikin is a word often, and inaccurately used, in Australian political lingo. ...

Aussies Hoping for a Repeat of 1979 Truckie Blockade when the Government Backed Down to Truckers’ Demands

By Brian Shilhavy Asia-Pacific Research, August 30, 2021Health Impact News 29 August 2021 *** The stakes are much higher this time, but Aussies are hoping that a planned trucker blockade that is beginning Monday, August 30th, demanding “a guarantee from federal and state governments that there will be no mandated vaccine, and that no person, company or...

Reporter Urges Aussies to Get Vaccinated Despite Suffering Rare Heart Inflammation Caused by Pfizer Jab

By Zero Hedge Global Research, August 27, 2021Zero Hedge 26 August 2021 *** An Australian TV reporter is suffering from one of the exceedingly rare (according to the CDC) side effects attributed to mRNA COVID jabs produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Denham Hitchcock, a reporter with Seven News, is suffering from a heart condition called pericarditis, which...

Disgruntled Australians scuffle with police at banned ‘Freedom’ marches as Covid-19 lockdown extended in Sydney (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

Police arrest a man at an anti-lockdown protest in Sydney, Australia, July 24, 2021. © Steven Saphore/AFP Thousands of anti-lockdown activists marched through major Australian cities on Saturday, following an extension of Covid-19 restrictions. Multiple people were arrested and dozens charged with offenses after brawls broke out. Protesters chanted “Freedom” as they descended on downtown Sydney without...

Australia’s Turnbull Government’s Anti-Terror Tool Kit

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, August 27, 2017 It has been a week of bollards in Australia. And defence barriers. And hedges and vegetation. No, not the radio garden hour, or the herbaceous borders special featured on prime time television, delivered by a bearded man with a facial forest so vast it could regenerate...

Target Finding for the Empire: The Pine Gap Joint Defense Facility, America’s Spy Hub in the Heart of Australia

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, August 21, 2017 “The tasking we get at Pine Gap is look for this particular signal coming out of this particular location. If you find it, report it, and if you find anything else of interest, report that as well.” David Rosenberg, former NSA Team leader, weapon’s analysis at...

Dismantling Tent City. Gathering of the Homeless in Sydney, Australia

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, August 10, 2017 It all began as a series of daring accretions starting last December. Now, Tent City in Sydney’s Martin Place has become something of an institution, albeit of the fleeting sort. But this gathering of the homeless, rather than being considered a social consequence of galloping house prices...

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Australia

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, August 02, 2017 “We [Australians and Britons] can talk to each other as we can with no one else, but you can’t revert to a world that’s now disappeared.” – Allan Gyngel, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 1, 2017 To hear Boris Johnson, current Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom,...

The Passing of Mr Football: Les Murray, Australia and the World Game

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, August 01, 2017 Featured image: Les Murray (Source: SBS TWG) “The growth, popularity and success of football in Australia today is absolutely a reflection of [Les Murray’s] passion and advocacy for the game he loved.” – SBS statement, Jul 31, 2017 It is important to stress this: the word...

Australia’s Water Tragedy: Hydropolitics and the Failure of the Murray Darling Basin Plan

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, July 30, 2017 Water is gold to survival, the indispensable, the vast feeder for human civilization. Its absence entails certain death; its decline brings out the prospect that a civilisation might well collapse. When a water crisis is announced, panic sets in. Officials ready for war; armies ready for...

Australia’s Secret Military Base: The Pine Gap “Stealth” Anniversary Party

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, July 30, 2017 It all happened without much fuss, since fuss was bound to be the enemy. Dignitaries, guests and various partners lined up for a gathering at Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory on Saturday, commemorating the secret base’s half-century. The Alice Spring News Online described it, not...

The Cardinal, The Church and Legal Theatre: Historic Procedure in Melbourne Magistrates Court

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, July 29, 2017 Featured image: Cardinal George Pell (Source: Wikimedia Commons) “The world is watching.” – Cathy Kezelman, Blue Knot Foundation president, The Washington Post, Jul 25, 2017 The show on Wednesday was grim, busy, crowded. Cardinal George Pell, the highest Vatican official thus far to be brought within...