Break the chains of foreign power

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Lead Editorial

20 November 2024
Vol. 26 No. 47

With US President Joe Biden incapacitated, who exactly gave the order allowing Ukraine to deploy US-made long-range missiles into Russian territory? Ukraine wasted no time, immediately firing six ATACMS into Russia’s Bryansk region, north of the Ukrainian border. The US order—which Australia is party to—is the next level on the escalation ladder that ends in thermonuclear World War III. Because Australia blindly follows US foreign policy, this order risks blowing back on Australia, which through Pine Gap assists American missile guidance.

In the United States, the military industrial complex is in charge, and is not about to sit about and calmly wait for President-elect Donald Trump to take office, to find out if he will live up to his pledge to halt the war.

In Australia, the same complex is in charge. It directs our foreign policy and military decisions. We have volunteered our nation as a US base and handed over our resources as a US “domestic source”. Pentagon maps depict our continent in three zones—the top region for US “force projection” into Asia, the middle region as the logistics and support hub for the northern spear, and the southern zone comprising industrial production for the war effort.

Australia is party to this war escalation because we do not have an independent foreign policy.

Because we don’t have economic sovereignty, Australia is also hostage to the dictates of the international financial establishment, centred in Wall Street and the City of London. Its orders are issued from the Bank for International Settlements’ Basel tower, to which Treasury and Reserve Bank heads pay regular homage.

It is to support those bankers’ vision for global financial control that Australia has destroyed its economy, can’t access its own cheap power, and has ruled a growing portion of its citizens out of home ownership.

Neoliberal economic policy, devised by the imperial authors of the BIS, and written by its stable of technocrat economists, has handed control of our nation and its destiny to private, vested interests. Privatising and outsourcing government means most government functions, and many critical decisions, are no longer under control of the citizens via the elected government. And successive governments continue to push for more “independence” of crucial functions from government control, such as removal of government oversight of the RBA.

“We’ve outsourced the functions of governments to corporations...”, Citizens Party Research Director Robert Barwick told Martin North’s live audience on his Walk the World YouTube channel on 19 November. “We therefore can’t hold them accountable and if we can’t hold them accountable, we’re not in charge. We don’t have economic sovereignty in Australia!”

Barwick made clear that the reason the Citizens Party “doesn’t sweat the small stuff”, as a major media outlet once said of us, is that to accomplish significant and lasting change we must first break the control of those vested interests. Once we break the chains of power by asserting economic and foreign policy sovereignty, then a cascade of sovereign policy decisions is possible.

Only Australia’s citizens can make that happen.

This week Treasurer Jim Chalmers, forced by the regional banking closures inquiry, moved to appease the citizens on banking and cash access (p. 3). But as usual the mealy-mouthed approach begs the questions: Who is giving the orders? In this case it’s no secret: The banks. Ten bank chief executives held a secret Zoom confab with Chalmers ahead of his announcement, with all present signing non-disclosure agreements! But the point is, we, and our collaborators, took the battlefield by storm, forcing them to the negotiating table. An association of ordinary citizens is impinging on the world’s financial masters.

The ACP’s national policy platform launch on 17 November brought together nearly 200 citizens and leaders from all cross sections of Australian society, to take the fight to the election. Read the reports within and watch the videos, available at YouTube this week.

In this week's issue: 

• Chalmers takes on the banks … with a feather duster
• Close to victory against MAD censorship bill—the Greens must also reject it
• Andy Schmulow, a bulldog who won’t rest
• Senator demands: Put the RBA to work for Australia!
• Australia’s opportunity is still knocking
• RBA on ballooning super risks
• Should Australia hold more gold?
• Australia is not sovereign without an independent foreign policy
• Seven of ten killed in Gaza are women and children
• Breaking the Silence: Former IDF Soldiers
• Kevin is here to help US–China relations
• ACP conference a landmark event 
• Wagga Councillor calls for nationalisation of Rex Airlines in the interests of regional Australia
• ALMANAC - ACP National Conference 2024: a great exchange of ideas
   

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