Israel’s brutal war against Gaza has cost at least 40,000 Palestinian lives. Now, with the assassinations of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the situation could escalate into a regional war.
The renewed push for nuclear power is not only about domestic energy policy. It is about the establishment of an entire nuclear industry and a possible future of nuclear weapons.
Iran’s rhetorical support for Palestinian liberation is one of the ways that its brutal dictatorship tries to win popular legitimacy at home and abroad. But its thin pretence of being an axis of resistance is window dressing for a counter-revolutionary domestic and international agenda.
Lest we forget Australia's role helping to secure Palestine for the British in World War One, and laying the foundations for the apartheid state of Israel.
The federal government’s inaugural National Defence Strategy significantly increases the country’s military burden and takes us further down the path to war with China.
