Aukus articles
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Solidarity to Stop AUKUS
Australian Nuclear Free Alliance gathering, March 2024. Image by Ray Acheson. AUKUS is the awkward-sounding acronym for “Australia-United Kingdom-United States”—a trilateral military alliance that stands poised to waste billions of dollars, proliferate high-level radioactive material and impose its safekeeping on First Nations communities for hundreds of thousands of years, increase global militarism and potentially provoke a nuclear war. If this doesn’t sound like a good investment to you,...
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Universities for AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick
“Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding naïve, is for the greater good of humanity, independently transient of geopolitical skirmishes?” Wanning Sun from the University of Technology, Sydney, asks in hope. “The history of universities during the Cold War era tells us that it is precisely at More
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China, North Korea denounce Japan’s involvement with AUKUS
China says it firmly opposes foreign military alliances targeting it and stoking bloc confrontation.