A new website has been recently launched that tracks US military, intelligence and weapons corporations access to Australian military facilities. This project states its purpose as: US access to Australian defence and intelligence facilities has consequences for peace, security, sovereignty and democratic control. Our purpose is to make that access visible, verifiable and open to democratic scrutiny. We assemble and …

By Binoy Kampmark IT REMAINS a prickly reminder that Australia is still an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests of another state basking in imperial and fast-diminishing splendour.  Pine Gap, known more technically as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG), is a largely U.S.-operated effort in Alice Springs, Central Australia. As the late scholar of strategic …