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Clinton visit digs Australia more deeply into USA war machine

Reports from the mainstream press reveal the visit is part of the Gillard government’s increasing involvement in the U.S. War machine….A new U.S. Space Warfare Base in West Australia

U.S. war criminals in Oz as Australia boosts its involvement in U.S. war machine | Indymedia Australia, 8 Nov 10, “……  The whole visit and itinerary has been kept secret, supposedly for “security” but more likely to prevent any public protests against U.S. imperialism and the U.S. Australian alliance. On the agenda for the talks include the development of new U.S. bases in Australia, escalation of the conflict with Iran and of course Australia’s involvement in the increasingly bloody Afghan war

Reports from the mainstream press reveal the visit is part of the Gillard government’s increasing involvement in the U.S. War machine.

More U.S. Military Hardware in Australia
The Age reveals that the U.S.will store equipment and supplies in Australia as part of a new regional posture to respond to natural disasters and “other contingencies”. Presumably these “other contingencies” include potential military conflicts with the rising power in the regions China.

More training with U.S. forces
The Age also revealed more intensive training with Australian force

A new U.S. Space Warfare Base in West Australia
Robert Gates is expected to announce the building of a new U.S. base at the Harold E Holt Naval communications station at Exmouth in West Australia. Laughingly defended in The Australian as not US bases as such, but truly joint facilities, this base is squarely aimed at ensuring the U.S. continues to militarise space and achieve hegemony down here on earth. It is being presented as a response to China’s 2007 shooting down of old satellite, which is again laughable China’s action was in itself a response to U.S. moves to use space for its own military ends. Whatever the case, like Pine Gap, Australia is again providing essential support to the U.S. nuclear war machine, a contribution more important in reality than any contribution of a few thousand troops in Afghanistan or Iraq.

More U.S. naval ships to visit Australian ports

As part of the U.S. projecting its military power into the Asia Pacific to contain Chinese power, we can expect more nuclear armed and powered vessels in Australian waters. ……

U.S. war criminals in Oz as Australia boosts its involvement in U.S. war machine | Indymedia Australia

November 8, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, uranium, weapons and war | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, nuclear weapons, uranium