The Guardian • military bases
Issue #2016
The real threat of the United States’ 800 foreign bases
Under the heading “Australia Faces Massive Existential Threat from China,” Christopher Joye writes that: “The spectre of Chinese nuclear submarines, destroyers, fighters and bombers based...
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Issue #2171
Japanese PM called out for ‘sycophant diplomacy’
On 28 October Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae and US President Donald Trump visited the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington at the US Yokosuka Naval...
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Issue #2107
Drive to war: RIMPAC 2024
The US-sponsored ‘Rim of the Pacific’ (RIMPAC) military exercises have just begun. This show of naval force is the world’s largest. Vice Admiral John Wade,...
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Issue #2189
The making of the US military footprint in Ghana
In February 2008, beneath the harsh afternoon sun of Accra, US President George W Bush stood before a small gathering of journalists and dismissed swirling...
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Issue #2173
When Ecuador said no
This November, Ecuadorians have voted in a referendum on allowing the return of foreign military bases. The referendum was proposed by President Daniel Noboa, a...
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Issue #2197
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BURKINA FASO: Burkina Faso has broken off diplomatic relations with France, its former colonial ruler, citing violations of sovereignty, foreign interference, and worsening bilateral relations....
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Issue #2113
Genocide in Honduras
Since the 2009 military coup d’état against President Manuel Zelaya, structural racism, the narcotics trade, tourist development, mining, neoliberal economic policies, and right-wing governments have...
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Issue #2183
GLOBAL BRIEFS
OMAN: Oman has declared that it has no intention to join Trump’s “Board of Peace.” “We affirm our solidarity with the countries in the Gulf...
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Issue #2118
Niger: sun sets on the American century
American imperialism in Africa has just been dealt a significant blow. Its influence in Niger has come to an end. The last troops have had...
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Issue #2189
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: Presently the United States has more than 36,000 troops stationed in Germany. It had planned for some time to reduce the number by withdrawing...
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Issue #2017
Who is building a military base in the Solomon Islands?
The Australian high commissioner to the Solomon Islands, Lachlan Strahan, was forced to deny that Australia is building a military base in Temotu Province in...
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Issue #2063
PEACE NOTES
“As a colonised people, its not glamorous … you look at all the social indicators from poverty to homelessness to drug and alcohol addition, abuse,...
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Issue #2041
“Hands off the world”
On 2nd February 2023, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace in Manila, where they...
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Issue #2135
GLOBAL BRIEFS
FRANCE: France is leaving another military base in Africa. It has handed over its only army base in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the Western...
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Issue #2094
AUKUS expansion is a gift to three sets of war-mongers
“The defense ministers of the US, UK, and Australia will reportedly begin to talk about broadening the AUKUS military alliance, with Japan emerging as the...
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Issue #2093
GLOBAL BRIEFS
MIDDLE EAST: Members of Yemen’s Houthi movement have attacked a total of 86 vessels in the Red Sea, the Arab Sea and the Indian Ocean...
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Issue #2092
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UKRAINE / RUSSIA: Ukrainian military deployed over 2,500 servicemen, some 35 tanks and around 40 other armoured vehicles to attack multiple locations along the border with Russia....
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Issue #2190
GLOBAL BRIEFS
POLAND: Polish President Karol Nawrocki said Poland was ready to host US troops withdrawn from Germany in addition to the 10,000 which are already stationed...
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Issue #2098
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: More than 2,000 students have been arrested on US college campuses during pro-Palestinian actions. Many students have been suspended. As a gesture of solidarity,...
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Issue #2069
PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton While the United States is colonising northern Australia, occupying Australian military bases and ports, bringing in nuclear submarines and nuclear-capable B52 planes, establishing...
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Issue #2055
US Military Build-up in Australia
In the upcoming Exercise Talisman Sabre war games, between the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and United States military, an expected 30,000 military personnel will participate...
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Issue #2193
GLOBAL BRIEFS
US: United States Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth discussed key foreign policy issues for Washington at a defence summit in Singapore. Among other things he...
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Issue #2097
Pine Gap on Red Alert: Australia’s ‘allies’ revealed
In October 1973, the US government placed all of its bases on nuclear alert, including the Pine Gap and North West Cape bases in Australia,...
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Issue #2177
LETTERS
Bases and more Thank you for your front page story in Guardian #2176, ‘Unhinged US – time to close the bases.’ There is so much...
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Issue #2123
US navy vs the birds of Diego Garcia
Since the 1970s the US-UK military base on Diego Garcia, under the responsibility of the US 7th Fleet, has been an important military asset in...
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Issue #2181
PEACE NOTES
How many US Bases do we have? Recently there has been some internal discussion about the number of US Bases in Australia. The peace movement...
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Issue #2196
Close Pine Gap – interview with an activist
This year, the Close Pine Gap Convergence will be held from 18-20 July in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Paul Gregoire interviewed three veterans of past Close...
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Issue #2149
PEACE NOTES
The demise of the British Empire Denis Doherty On May 25 this year, the Sydney Morning Herald issued an editorial “London lets the sun go...
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Issue #2125
The origins of AUKUS
“The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay,” said US President Obama during his visit to Australia in 2011 as...
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Issue #2186
GREEN NOTES
Australia is spending $568 million to extend the West Island airfield at an Australian-United States military base on Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 3,000 km north west...
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Issue #2201
PEACE NOTES
Pat Conroy is the Minister for Defence Industry. He’s taken up the main role on negotiations to do with AUKUS and has just visited the...
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Issue #2183
Close Bases Day – Global Day of Action – Australian section
The weekend of 21 and 22 February was chosen as the global day of action to close bases. The idea originated in the US where...
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Issue #2179
Australian taxpayers pay for Philippines’ military bases
In a move that defies economic logic , the Albanese government has decided to invest Australian taxpayers’ money on the construction of five different military...
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Issue #2091
Timber Creek Propaganda
Timber Creek is little more than a pit stop in the Northern Territory. It is in the spotlight because it is next to Bradshaw, a...
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Issue #2047
Rules-based international order: Whose rules?
Having rules and keeping them sounds like a good thing. Rules keep our roads safe. All our sports have rules. Rules mean other people don’t...
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Issue #2182
EDITORIAL
Australia is sending a ‘Wedgetail’ early warning aircraft and some air-to-air missiles, along with 85 defence force members to the UAE. Cue lots of ooh-aah...
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Issue #2176
Unhinged US – time to close the bases!
Pine Gap, 20 kilometres southeast of Alice Springs, was established in 1968 in conditions of great secrecy. Local people were told it was a space...
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Issue #2155
BAN ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS
We face the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, as the issues of war and peace are thrown into...
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Issue #2181
NO WAR ON IRAN!
When the United States and Israel began bombing Iran in an unprovoked act of war, they opened the way for conflict to escalate in the...
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Issue #2161
Isolate Israel
The Australian government in its complicity in Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip now has as an ally an...
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Issue #2152
Israel’s nuclear threat
The ceasefire between US/Israel and Iran does not mark the end of imperialist hostilities against the sovereign state of Iran. The debate around the damage...
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