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Russia/Ukraine War – How It Got to This Point and Was There Ever a Chance It Could Have Taken Another Course?

Posted on March 1, 2022March 9, 2022 by TPNS

Death wish As the Russian invasion of Ukraine gets ever deeper and the tanks roll on and the airstrikes hit civilian and other targets and EU arms flow into Ukraine from all over Europe and Germany commits 100bn Euros to a new armed forces fund, so the planet continues to heat up, the IPCC’s latest … Continue reading Russia/Ukraine War – How It Got to This Point and Was There Ever a Chance It Could Have Taken Another Course?

How the military-industrial complex has captured Australia’s top strategic advisory body

Posted on December 10, 2021December 10, 2021 by TPNS

A Declassified Australia investigation has uncovered a casebook example of ‘state-capture’, with the development of deep connections between ASPI, and the world’s largest and most powerful military weapons manufacturers.

Dereliction of Duty

Posted on October 9, 2021October 9, 2021 by TPNS

When is a security threat not a security threat? When it's COVID. As we have written elsewhere, pandemic was categorised in the UK as a Tier One security threat. It was utterly sidelined and has resulted in 138,000 officially recorded deaths as of October 2021. Now more damning evidence has been released. Coronavirus report warned of … Continue reading Dereliction of Duty

Doubly Unsafe : Our nuclear weapons bases ‘set to flood’

Posted on October 8, 2021October 9, 2021 by TPNS

In an incredibly revealing 2019 gathering of the Climate and National Security Forum, senior USA naval defence officials candidly laid out the enormity of the climate – and by extension financial – emergency facing US bases at home and abroad. Unfortunately, the solutions were very much about reducing emissions and supporting mitigation and adaptation in … Continue reading Doubly Unsafe : Our nuclear weapons bases ‘set to flood’

Unforgiveable

Posted on September 10, 2021February 23, 2022 by TPNS

The abject failure of post 9/11 foreign and military policies in Afghanistan The utter failure of international foreign and defence policy in Afghanistan (going back decades) with all the deep, profound consequences for the Afghan people, was the cumulative result of wilful, self seeking, ignorant, short-term, wrong-headed strategies which lined the pockets of defence contractors … Continue reading Unforgiveable