The US alliance is a cornerstone of foreign policy that allows the Australian ruling class to better project its power into the Asia-Pacific.

NGOs in Haiti have provided the means for the U.S. government to circumvent the Haitian state and impose neoliberal polices.

While ever more are being thrown into poverty around the world, governments are increasing military spending.

Whenever George Bush came to Australia he was met by thousands of angry anti-war protesters. Barack Obama deserves the same when he arrives next month.

Dahr Jamail, author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, reports on how the U.S. military has used anthropologists and other social scientists to further the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yemen is already marked by extreme poverty and political corruption. The ratcheting up of Western intervention will only make things worse. 

In 1999, during mass demonstrations supporting independence for East Timor, Socialist Alternative argued against the popular demand that Australian troops be sent. We argued that this would give Australian governments a pretext for increasing military budgets and using force against other small nations in our region in the future. Now more evidence shows how right we were.

In 1973, Henry Kissinger, the man responsible for carpet-bombing Vietnam and Cambodia, was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

August 30 marks the tenth anniversary of East Timor's independence referendum

John Pilger decodes the "historic" speech President Obama made in Cairo. The BBC described the speech as "reaching out to the Muslim world". In reality it showed the seductive face of American power as it proceeds towards its unchanged goal.