US to bomb Northern Territory
In another move into closer co-operation with US war fighting strategies, American B-52s and Stealth bombers will soon be dropping live bombs on the Northern Territory.

Hardened and Networked Army
The same tired arguments about future “uncertainty” and unpredictability” in the regional and global environment have been used to justify spending an additional $1.5 billion over the next ten years on expanding the army by 1,500 combat troops and restructuring it into new flexible “battle groups”.

Shoot-to-Kill Bill
Prior to the 2000 Olympics the military were given extraordinary new powers to suppress civil disturbances, including protests and industrial disputes. Once deployed, the military forces were given wide-ranging powers to seize premises, places, and means of transport, detain people, search premises and seize things, and the use of "reasonable and necessary force", including shoot-to-kill powers.

Peace activists penetrate Pine Gap
On the night of 8 December, four members of Christians against all Terrorism entered the prohibited area of the United States spy and warfighting base at Pine Gap in the Northern Territory in order to conduct a citizens' inspection of the establishment. This is a wonderful achievement!

Bush spies on American people
Pine Gap, the US military base near Alice Springs, may well be involved in spying on United States citizens.
It has been revealed that President Bush has been secretly authorising the National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on hundreds and possibly thousands of American citizens without court warrants, citing the “war on terror” as justification for these illegal phone taps.

Visit to Japan by the Coordinator
From October 20 to 28, I was a guest of the Peace Forum, a section of a larger group called Gensuiken. During this time I was able to participate in and speak at a number of peace and anti-bases actions in Tokyo and Okinawa. The principal event was the International Anti-War and Anti-Base Meeting which had delegates South Korea, Guam, Philippines, Japan and Australia.

Whales and dolphins threatened by naval sonar
High-intensity naval sonar poses a serious threat to whales, dolphins and porpoises that depend on sound to survive, says a report by the United Nations Environment Program.

US to ship marines to Guam
Japan and the United States plan to begin moving U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam in 2008 and finish by 2012, Madeleine Bordallo, the Guam delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, said in early November.

Australia to exercise with Kopassus again
Many peace activists are appalled that Australian forces are about to resume military exercises with Kopassus, the Indonesian Special Forces responsible for so much of the torture, rapes and murders throughout the decades-long Indonesian occupation of East Timor.

Radar research for Star Wars
Australia's involvement in the United States Star Wars project to control the earth from space took another step forward on December 16 when the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and the University of Adelaide signed an agreement to establish a Centre of Expertise in the university's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Contracts and corruption
The Howard Government gives jobs and contracts to its friends, even when it is clear they are corrupt and dishonest. This is happening in both the industrial relations and the military areas.

NASA's plutonium could kill
On January 11, the window opens for a launch from Cape Canaveral of a rocket lofting a space probe a New Horizons mission to the planet Pluto with 24 pounds of plutonium fuel on board. Plutonium is considered the most deadly radioactive substance.

Waihopai spybase protest — January 20-22, 2006
The Waihopai electronic intelligence gathering base is located in the Waihopai Valley, near Blenheim. First announced in 1987, it is operated by New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) in the interests of the foreign powers grouped together in the super-secret UKUSA Agreement (which shares global electronic and signals intelligence among the intelligence agencies of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and NZ).

U.S. drops nuclear 'bunker-buster' plans
In a significant victory for peace and security, the Bush administration in late October abandoned for the upcoming year its bid to research "bunker buster" nuclear weapons.

Indian Ocean Islanders take on the US
The island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean is located perfectly from a strategic point of view. But when the US military adopted it as a military base, it was inconveniently populated. The people were driven out -- but now they want their home back.

Opposition to US alliance
Mark Latham's opposition to the ANZUS Treaty were shared by one in five Labor Party candidates going into the last Federal election in October 2004. ALP candidates also lined up almost unanimously with Mr Latham's attacks on President George W. Bush.

Latham attacks US alliance in his diaries
In early September the Latham Diaries were published and caused a real stir. Most of the reports covered his views on various ALP personalities and the media. His opinion on the ANZUS alliance was noted and quickly dismissed.

US spy budget revealed
A top U.S. intelligence official has revealed what has long been secret -- the amount of money the United States spends on its spy agencies, according to a New York Times report.

Push for more military spending
AUSTRALIA'S military budget should be increased by least $1 billion a year, according to a report released in October this year. The report by Ross Babbage of the Kokoda Foundation says the costs of new equipment, facilities and personnel are increasing at a much faster rate than the current three per cent annual real increase in the current $18 billion defence budget.

US military presence in Australia
Late in July 2005, the AABCC requested Senator Kerry Nettle (Greens NSW) to ask about the numbers of US military personnel in Australia, using a US Department of Defense report called Worldwide Manpower Distribution by Geographical Area (2001) which said there were 663 Marines stationed in Australia.

KCB's Strategic Policy
Over the course of a long political career, Kim Christian Beazley has demonstrated an impressive consistency in his views on strategic policy. In 1974, he submitted his Masters' thesis to the University of Western Australia on “the evolution of Australian Labor Party attitudes to the United States alliance, 1961-1972”. He had the benefit of unparalleled access to Labor's internal records, thanks to his father, who was a senior party figure. The thesis demonstrated how the right faction took control of Labor's foreign policy in the lead up to Whitlam's election win in 1972.

Alternative Annual Report on Halliburton
In a alternative annual report , released on May 17 by CorpWatch, Halliburton's real 2004 track record is revealed. The report details everything from the company's unwillingness to prevent bribery, fraud, and corruption within its workforce to its inability to take proper precautions to protect its employees in Iraq.

Global military spending nears Cold War peak
Massive US spending on the "war on terrorism" pushed global military expenditure above $US1 trillion in 2004, the sixth successive year the total has risen, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Rearranging the infrastructure for US military intervention
in the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific: resistance and solidarity
(edited version of Professor Simbulan's speech at the
International Peace Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, October 22, 2005)
I take this opportunity to thank all of you for your solidarity in, our past struggles against US military bases in the Philippines. We in the Philippines were finally able to remove US military bases in 1991 as a result of the broad unity of anti-base, anti-treaty peoples' forces and movements. We successfully convinced the Philippine Senate on September 16, 1991 to terminate the bases treaty and to remove all US military bases, US troops and facilities stationed on Philippine soil.

US study finds H-bomb tests still causing cancer in Marshalls
A study has found that the number of cancers caused by hydrogen bomb testing in the Marshall Islands is set to double, more than half a century after the tests were conducted in the tiny Pacific nation.
The study by the US Government's National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimated 530 cancers had already been caused by the tests, particularly the explosion of a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb codenamed Bravo on March 1, 1954.

Japan to host US nuclear carrier
Japan is to allow a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be stationed in its waters for the first time.
The vessel will replace the USS Kitty Hawk, the US Navy's oldest active ship, when it is decommissioned in 2008.

Report of the protests against Talisman Sabre 2005 and photos
Talisman Sabre' did not proceed without opposition. The national and Brisbane Anti-Bases Campaigns called for a 'peace convergence' on the Rockhampton area for the long weekend of June 10 to 13.

Air warfare destroyers
Construction of the three theatre missile defence air warfare destroyers is getting closer as the Federal Government awards contracts to mostly US linked corporations to

Houston, we still have a problem. An alternative annual report on halliburton In May this year Halliburton held its annual shareholders meeting in Houston. Inside, CEO David Lesar congratulated himself on the astonishing US$7.1 billion revenue the company has made off its recent work in Iraq. This number is double what the company made in the war-torn country the previous year and boosts Halliburton's overall revenue some

Sale of Aegis to Australia
The Pentagon announced in late May the sale of three Aegis naval weapons systems to Australia, saying it would increase the ability of the US and Australian navies to operate together.

Protest at Tidbinbilla against militarisation of space
Campaign Coalition, Canberra Program for Peace, and OzPeace occupied the Visitors' Centre at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) Tidbinbilla on April 29 to draw attention to the accelerating militarisation and nuclearisation of space in which the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plays a key role.

Join the Peace Convergence
From June 10 to 30, a US-Australian joint military exercise called Talisman Sabre 2005 will take place in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Much of the activity will happen at Shoalwater Bay, 50 kms north of Rockhampton in Queensland, the location of the planned new US-Australian training base.

US training base at vieques an ecological disaster
The people of Vieques in Puerto Rico have seen their environment devastated and their health undermined by decades of US military exercises on their land. With three new US training bases being developed in Australia, and Talisman Saber, the first of a series of major war games, due to be held in June, Vieques presents Australians with a terrible warning of what may happen here US bases are not thrown off our land.

New US national defence strategy
The use of space "enables us to project power anywhere in the world from secure bases of operation," says the Pentagon's National Defense Strategy, which Defense Secretary Rumsfeld signed on March 1.

Orchids at Menwith Hill — success at last!
On January 7 this year, “Flossie Mintballs” , one of the WoMenwith Hill women, wrote to the AABCC:
In 1988 Hazel Costello started the campaign to conserve the orchids growing in wetland on the north west corner of the Menwith Hill base.

Canada rejects star wars
Peace activists are celebrating the Canadian Government's decision not to have any further involvement in the US missile defence program. After decades of campaigning, the peace movement has won a significant victory against US plans to militarise space.

Bases of insecurity
Paper presented by Denis Doherty, Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition national co-ordinator, to the recent Peace, Justice and Reconciliation in the Asia Pacific Region, an international conference organised by the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland.

Containing China
New CIA Director Porter Goss says China's military modernisation poses a direct threat to the US. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee that within a decade the Chinese navy could surpass the US Navy and that China is "increasingly moving their navy further from shore."

Two missile defense test failures
After two years without any tests, the last two missile defence tests have failed.
In February this year, a target missile carrying a mock warhead was launched from Kodiak Island, Alaska, but the interceptor missile failed to launch from its island base in the Pacific Ocean.

Nato moves ahead on theatre missile defence
In a worrying development, the North Atlantic Council launched its theatre missile defence (TMD) program by approving the Charter for the Program Management Organisation. The decision, taken on 11 March this year, paves the way for the financing and purchase of the NATO TMD system.

Fight over funding for bunker busters
The Pentagon wants the US Congress to restore funding for research into nuclear bunker busters which was dropped from the budget last year.

Bush administration looks to space to fight
The Pentagon is developing a suborbital space capsule that would be launched from the United States and could deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within two hours. The Falcon program reflects how the Bush administration is increasingly looking to space to impose its will on the world.

The tsunami and US bases in Australia
How is it possible that, with the extensive US assets in this region watching the surface of the earth, the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami escaped detection? The US has many satellites monitoring the earth with infrared, photographic imaging and other techniques. Of course US military satellites are not intended to help people in emergencies and were of no use during the crisis.

NZ activists want spy base closed
Activists are vowing to step up a campaign to close the government spy base at Tangimoana, near Palmerston North.

ING disinvests from weapons
In a press release from Brussels on 24 March, peace groups Netwerk Vlaanderen, Forum voor Vredesactie, For Mother Earth and Vrede have welcomed the decision by ING, the largest private financial institution in the Benelux countries, and the 11th largest in the world, to no longer invest in companies producing controversial weapons.

Pine Gap — Notice to Quit
In November this year, the Federal Government can give three years notice that it intends to terminate the agreement which permits the US base at Pine Gap to continue operating.

Issue 7 Summer 2004

No "training bases", no "smart bombs, Tell the US to give us our land back!
With the re-election of Howard and Bush, Australia's subservience to the United States will increase. We can expect a far greater number of joint exercises between the military of the two countries in coming years and greater integration of Australia's forces in the US military. Security analysts say that Australia will become one of the highest-priority training grounds for the US in the world.

US to test "smart bombs" in Australia
An edited version of an item on ABC Radio's The World Today, November 5 2004
ELEANOR HALL: The United States is planning to test its latest smart bombs on Australian territory under a deal being worked out between the newly elected Bush administration and the Howard Government....

Military spending $55 million a day and rising. Government big-ticket military spending
With the election over, a triumphant Howard Government is about to embark on a rush of big-ticket equipment purchases, including billions of dollars of military spending.

US military bases
The United States has dramatically expanded its military presence in the Middle East and Central Asia and now has bases or shares military installations in Afghanistan, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

Anti-nuclear protester killed in france
Sébastien Briat, a 21 year old anti-nuclear protester, has died in north-eastern France after being run over by a train carrying nuclear waste from France to Germany.

You can run — but you can't hide
New technology developed by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation will help military surveillance analysts to locate hard-to-find moving targets. The Department of Defence media release which announced this did not mention any possible civilian surveillance function for the new technology.

Spin death or allegory
The United States military once charged into the field with operation names such as Torch (North Africa 1942 ), Chromite (Korea 1950), Masher (Vietnam 1996 ) and Killer (Korea 1951).
Today's warlords prance into battle heralded by appellations such as Enduring Freedom (Iraq 2003) and Provide Comfort (Turkey 1991) -- titles that suggest an impending invasion from self-help authors, rather than an army of cold steel (not to imply that the self-help literati isn't a force to be scared of).

Air force pursuing antimatter weapons
The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source -- antimatter, the eerie "mirror" of ordinary matter -- in future weapons.

SWARMS
Swarms of small expendable unmanned aircraft may become part of Australia's defence arsenal in the future.

US navy testing DU weapons in fishing areas
Opposition to the new US "training bases" in Australia and plans to test "smart bombs" in Australia has been reinforced by news that the US Navy routinely puts human lives at risk by testing radioactive, toxic ammunition in prime fishing areas off the coast of Washington.

Doubts about us anti-missile system
At a newly constructed launch site on a tree-shorn plain in central Alaska, a large crane crawls from silo to silo, gently lowering missiles into their holes. The sleek white rockets, each about five stories tall, are designed to soar into space and intercept warheads headed toward the United States.

More new bases
Australia has signed on for three new "training bases" with the US military at the annual Australian-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) in Washington in July.

Defence Minister Hill comes clean on Star Wars
In a revealing interview with David Speers on Sky News' Australian Agenda program on 27 June this year, Defence Minister Senator Hill gave some interesting answers on the Howard Government's thinking about Star Wars.

New anti-bases group In Brisbane
The Brisbane Anti-Bases Group is just starting up! We will be working locally through political lobbying, awareness raising and action, and networking with other Queenslanders to oppose the Shoalwater Bay Joint Training Facility, north of Rockhampton, approximately 50 kilometres from Yeppoon.

Rockhampton/Yeppoon August 2004
The Australian Government's decision to make Shoalwater Bay another United States base (see cover story) impacts directly on the people of Yeppoon and Rockhampton. The front line struggle against US bases in Australia now includes Queensland as well as the Northern Territory.

Shoalwater Bay dugong sanctuary
Earlier in the year it was announced that the United States was interested in having a joint training facility at Shoalwater Bay 50km north of Yeppoon on the central Queensland coast.
As well as issues about US imperialism and the spread of the military industrial complex, there are many environmental factors which are reasons to oppose the Shoalwater Bay training facility.

US marine exercises may be moved to Australia
A senior official at the US National Security Council has said that US marines stationed in Okinawa may conduct their exercises in Australia in the future to reduce the burden on Japan of hosting such a large concentration of US forces.

Howard government commits to Star Wars
At the Australia-United States ministerial consultations (AUSMIN) in Washington in early July, Defence Minister Senator Hill finally officially committed Australia to joining the US "Star Wars" anti-missile program, despite strong opposition to the project.

Star Wars cannot work
According to a report released by the Union of Concerned Scientists on 13 May, the US Star Wars project due to be deployed by 30 September this year is incapable of shooting down any incoming warheads.

New missiles
The Howard Government has made a series of recent decisions which significantly upgrade the missiles used by the ADF, including introducing state of the art systems which are elements of theatre anti-missile systems, part of the Star Wars program.

Keep space For Peace Week. International days of protest to stop the militarisation of space
Between Sept. 25 - Oct. 2, 2004 events are being planned around the world to mark Keep Space for Peace Week.

Howard scoops the pool at the Brown Nose Awards
The inaugural Brown Nose Award Gala was held in Sydney on 4th July. M.C. Tug Dumbly began proceedings with his Declaration Of Dependence and in his best John Howard voice, declared "We are endowed with certain unalienable rights, like life, liberty and the pursuit of U.S. Foreign Policy.

Is missile defense needed?
Edited version of an article entitled "Is missile defense really needed?" published in the San Francisco Chronicle on May 23, 2004

Sinister milestone: the first weapon in space
The human race has passed a sinister milestone. The United States has broken a long-held taboo and launched the first weapon into the global commons of outer space.

Usable nukes
The United States Senate on June 15 endorsed funding to study new kinds of nuclear bombs, including a 100-kiloton nuclear "bunker-buster" capable of burrowing underground and destroying deeply buried targets making it more likely that nuclear weapons would be used.

Obituary for Ron Gray 9.2.1925 – 13.8.2004

Map of US training bases and Star Wars locations in Australia

Howard's appeasement of US militarism
No wonder Howard has been nominated for two awards at Anti-Bases' Brown Nose Award Gala to be held on July 4. As if he hasn't already done enough to scoop the pool, Howard and Defence Minister Hill are headed for Washington in June/July to sign an agreement to station American military forces in Australia near Darwin. As our Autumn issue stated, this qualitatively develops Australian integration into the US war machine.

John howard favourite for brown nose awards
Comedian Tug Dumbly will join Urthboy and Ozibatla from The Herd, Andy Clockwise, Bertie Blackman, Morgan, Professor Mike McKinley and more at the 2004 Brown Nose Awards at the Gaelic Club on Sunday, July 4 from 4-7pm.

Sea swap — a us military expansion into australia
Sea Swap is the innocuous designation given by the United States navy to a program to change over American warship crews in foreign ports.

Hill closes gap on Howard
Defence Minister Robert Hill has closed the gap with John Howard in the race for the coveted Brown Nose of the Year Award for outstanding achievement in going all the way with the USA. Hill, who is desperate for the award, has twigged that saddling Australia with another US military base that could take a century to remove might just do it.

G.R.O.V.I.L.
Grassroots Resistance to Violations of International Law (GROVIL) is offering $5,000 reward for the arrest and conviction for complicity in Iraq war crimes of any MP supportive of the war on Iraq.

Book Review: Star wars – Us tools of space supremacy reviewed by Denis Doherty.
Loring Wirbel's "Star Wars - US Tools of Space Supremacy" is a 'must read' for activists who wish to be informed about the nature of modern war and the politicians who promote it. The book points out that Star Wars is a program in progress, not merely a development yet to come. The use of space for both conventional and nuclear earthly wars is still around the corner, but its beginnings can be seen in the blitzkriegs against Afghanistan and Iraq. According to Wirbel, what is yet to come is ominous.

NT government opposes new US base
The Anti-Bases Coalition recently wrote to the Northern Territory Government raising concerns about the new United States base proposed for Darwin. We have received the following reply from Peter Blake, Chief Executive Officer, Department of Business, Industry & Resource Development of the Northern Territory Government.

AEIGIS: Greek for "shield", American for "aggression”
The US is rapidly expanding its anti-missile systems around the world, including in Australia. The US is spending $50 billion a year (the cost of providing clean water for everyone on earth) on Star Wars. For Washington, getting its allies aboard makes it easier politically and financially to push ahead with a system that critics have described as too costly and unproven.

US Aegis Destroyer in Sea of Japan by September
The U.S. Navy will deploy a destroyer equipped with the Aegis combat system in the Sea of Japan in September as part of efforts to build a missile defense network.

Poll: Americans support arms control
Americans continue to fear weapons of mass destruction and believe the Bush administration should work more closely with U.S. allies to stop their spread, according to a US opinion poll released in April.

New Mexico, war machine by Bob Anderson
The protest sign reads: "New Mexico #1 in Killing Machines." It has an image of an atom bomb cloud, a stealth jet and a space-based laser. It also says: "Last in schools, health care, living wages, democracy, environment, water."

New American army base proposed
Defence Minister Robert Hill visited Washington on November 21 last year for discussions with American Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld. During that visit US officials briefed Fairfax reporter Tom Allard about an American plan to house large numbers of tanks (100 or more), artillery and ammunition, plus servicing and training facilities in a military logistics and training base near Darwin.

Sorry kids the military have the bucks!
During January each year in NSW, high school graduating students face the prospect of either getting into or not getting into University. This year as a result of the Government's draconian approach to Higher education there is nearly a third fewer places. Where is the money being spent? This letter by the coordinator answer the question, it was published under the lead banner of "Sorry kids the military have the bucks" in the letters section of the SMH.

Australian radar systems and star wars
Australian radar facilities will also become an important component of the US Star Wars program, in addition to the planned Aegis air warfare destroyers and the US satellite ground station at Pine Gap.

Missile defence for Australia: Vital development or strategic snake oil?
The dream of a protective shield against intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) entered the public arena in the 1980s when then President Ronald Reagan articulated the idea of a massive system to protect the USA from any type or number of ICBMs. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) - more commonly referred to as STAR WARS - envisaged a vast system of ground and space based interceptors, lasers, and radars. As the system was developed, it was found to be technically impossible and was quietly put aside.

Letter to the Editor
The US is now claiming ownership of the Universe. It intends putting bases on the Moon and Mars. The rest of the world's assent has not been sought. The Howard Government is showing clear signs of okaying Washington's plans.

Brigitte and Alice Springs and Pine Gap
by Denis Doherty -National Coordinator - Australian Anti-Bases Campaign
The material printed below is a response of the Anti-Bases to the story of the alleged terrorist Brigitte and Pine Gap. The letter was published in the Alice Springs News shortly after Feb 5. One of the obstacles to our campaign is that many in the Alice Springs community believe that the base has good economic and political pluses for the community. The reality is quite the reverse and as campaigners we have to constantly reach out to citizens of Alice Springs. We do not believe in the current campaign to alarm citizens about 'terrorism' and believe it is based on the Government's desire to transfer exorbitant funds to the intelligence services.

Struggle to remove US space base on Diego Garcia
On Diego Garcia is one of the biggest military bases in the world.
That's the first struggle, the struggle against militarism, the peace movement's struggle to close down the military base on Diego Garcia. It is vital.

Pentagon prepares for war in space
An Air Force report is giving what analysts call the most detailed picture since the end of the Cold War of the Pentagon's efforts to turn outer space into a battlefield.

Military moon and mars
The space policy announced by George W. Bush to establish permanent bases on the moon and an aggressive program to take humans to Mars will be enormously expensive, dangerous, and will create unnecessary conflict as they expand nuclear power and weapons into space -- all disguised as the noble effort to hunt for the "origins of life"

Lockheed martin gets $505 million for pac-3 missile
Dallas - Lockheed Martin has received production contracts totaling $505 million for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missiles and related support equipment. The battle-proven PAC-3 Missile is currently the world's only fielded hit-to-kill, pure kinetic energy air defense missile.

Preventing an arms race in space
For several years, while China and other nations have pushed for an agreement aimed at preventing an arms race in outer space, the United States has insisted that no such treaty is necessary. In August 2003, China offered a compromise in its demands, hoping for a US moderation of its refusal, but no progress was made.

US military will stay in Georgia
US officials have said that their military presence in Georgia will now become permanent.
The American military has been training and equipping the Georgian army since the spring of 2002.

Australia Signs Up For Star Wars
The Howard Government announced on 4 December its decision to join the United States in developing the controversial "missile defense” or Star Wars program.

Canadian debate on Star Wars
A Canadian federal cabinet well this military decision could trap Canada extravaganza will be more into permanently supporting costly, more dangerous, and the US military's missile just as grotesquely defence scheme.

Stop The Swap
Sea Swap is an agreement between the United States Navy and the Australian Government to allow the rotation of US Navy
crews in the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia.

US base in Darwin a threat to national security
Despite Australian Government denials, it is clear that a US “The Governor of Okinawa said yesterday that the US tank unit will be based in Darwin, probably transferred, bases on his island brought a major increase in the crime perhaps with additional marine units, from Okinawa (Japan).

US Congressional report critical of missile defence deployment plans
The Bush administration's push to deploy a $22 billion missile defense system by this time next year could lead to unforeseen cost increases and technical failures that will have to be fixed before it can hope to stop enemy warheads, according to Congressional investigators.

Inuit battle to shut Star Wars base
Inuit hunters have asked Denmark's Supreme Court to close thousands of years they hunted whales, polar bears and other
down one of America's most secretive and strategically arctic creatures.

The most militant anti-bases campaign in the world
Foreign military bases developing weapons systems, movements and exercises. In some parts it's a damn sight more
offensive than that.

Australia's Theatre Missile Defence
The Howard Government's Defence Capability Review, released in early November, gave the green light for Australia to join the US missile defence program with three new RAN warships, something the US has been demanding for some time. The purchase of the ships has little to do with defending Australia and a lot to do with the aggressive star wars program.

Bush's battle to dominate space
The United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva adjourned in September, completely deadlocked. This is the
body that since 1959 has hammered out the great arms control and reduction treaties.

Qantas claims added security is to protect space base, not people.
QANTAS has blasted the Federal Government for making the airline foot the bill for extra security around the top-secret US military base at Pine Gap.

Bush wants mooon bases next
The Bush administration is developing a new strategy for the nation's space program that would send American astronauts back to the moon for the first time in more than 30 years, according to administration and congressional officials who said the plan includes a manned mission to Mars.

Letter to Bush from the Yorkshire Moors
Dear George, I wish you had the time to visit us here in North Yorkshire. I am writing this letter as I travel on the bus from our village - Goathland - into Whitby, on the North Sea coast. Although a small, relatively isolated village, it receives a disproportionate amount of publicity, mainly because it is the nearest village to the base that houses the tracking system for America's missile defence project.