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.
The Australian capitalist class is doubling down on the alliance with the US that has served its interests well for decades. In doing so, it risks dragging us all into a deadly confrontation between nuclear-armed rivals.