Today: Investigative journalism still lives! In UK’s Daily Mirror – persistent forensic coverage of the plight of veterans of nuclear tests in Australia.

We have told countless heartbreaking stories of grieving mums, children with deformities, men aged before their time and widows struggling to hold their families together, all while campaigning for recognition.

The test veterans and their families will never stop fighting. The Mirror will never cease to demand they are heard.

Just when I was ready to give up on all mainstream media, I found the article by the Daily Mirror. Susie Boniface sets out not only the saga of the sufferings of the veterans, but also, importantly, the irrefutable documentary evidence.

In this time of over-emotional, but not authenticated war coverage, it is refreshing to find this real journalism. And to find a news otlet that has continued to care about soldiers exploited by militarism for all these decades.

April 18, 2022 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews

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The Road to War brings a sharp focus to why it is not in Australia’s best interest to be dragged into a war with China which will almost inevitably go nuclear very quickly. The filmmaker has interviewed some of Australia’s senior foreign policy analysts who have vast experience behind them in analysing what really is going on here as the United States rattles its sabres with China. And sets us up to be its proxy, like the poor Ukranians have been fed into the Meatgrinder. So America can remain the Top Dog. The Road to War reveals how the United States through its spy base at Pine Gap and by stationing six nuclear capable B52 bombers in the Top End (without permission from the traditional owners) is making Australia a prime nuclear target if the current war of words suddenly melts down into full scale war.

The Road to War shows the implicit connection between Carbon emissions (the US military uses a whopping 70% of America’s annual petroleum to move its armies and vast War Machine around the globe to its 800+ military bases..but under a loophole wangled at Kyoto, the US military does not have to report its C02 annual emissions). The Road to War starts screening at selected cities and regional centres in March. See the trailer end for details.

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