As the AUKUS circus parades endlessly with billion dollar Australian taxpayer handouts to UK and US naval shipyards for infrastructure there is endless commentary from parliamentary boosters like Federal Government Minster Conroy and Minister Marles.
What is the price of this waste? There is expansion of U.S. bases in Australia with the Western Australian naval base in Stirling and the South Australian naval base in Osborne. There is the ongoing role of the so called joint facility Pine Gap in the Northern Territory (see earlier articles here March 2026) which plays a crucial role in U.S. espionage across the Eurasian land mass targeting Russia and China which in turn makes Australia a target.
Abby Martin in this Chris Hedges podcast is a fearless anti-imperialist journalist who in this film reveals the true cost of the U.S. military machine with its 800+ bases across the globe. As well as entrenching U.S. political power the U.S. military is the largest non-state environmental producer of carbon dioxide emissions and a massive polluter of land and waterways.
Seeking truth, Abby Martin, provides wide access to her collection of investigative documentaries on The Empire Files:
