Confronting Genocide With Civil Disobedience: The Pine Gap Protests And Gaza – OpEd

While the secret signals and surveillance facility at Pine Gap in Northern Australia, officially named the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG) is billed as a joint affair between Australia and the United States, it is nothing of the sort.  Just as offices direct the callow intern to make the coffee, Australian officials remain America’s permanent interns, helpful, certainly, but never powerful or given challenging roles.  The contempt with which Australians are treated is shown by the level...