US company to design Osborne submarine shipyard
Written by: Nick G. on 31 May 2024
US company Kellogg Brown Root (KBR) has been selected to provide concept design services for the new nuclear powered submarine construction yard at Osborne in South Australia.
Profits from the deal will further enrich the pockets of wealthy US shareholders.
KBR has previously won massive US contracts for supporting the US military in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
However, its “Controversy” listing on Wikipedia is one of the longest of any multinational company, including price-fixing, bribery, negligence in relation to employee safety, sexual assault and abuse allegations, and a human trafficking lawsuit.
As recently as September 2022, 800 Filipino workers were stranded at the remote US military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean due to an employment dispute with KBR. They alleged it had underpaid wages and denied holiday leave entitlements.
If the old saying is true that you can know a person by the company he or she keeps, we now know a bit more about the Australian ruling class and its subservience to US imperialism.
Withdraw from AUKUS!
Oppose KBR’s contract!
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Update:
On Jue 6 2024, it was anounced that KBR had been given an Australian government contract to "monitor space above Australia."
The announcement stated: "KBR’s Iron Stallion technology can find, watch, track and report on the movement of objects in space and now forms an integral component of the Australian government’s space domain awareness. Iron Stallion is a command and control technology that is being used by the Department of Defence to support Australia’s need for advanced space-based surveillance capabilities. It has proved its effectiveness in the US and in the UK."
The militarisation of space is a direct consequence of imperialism's striving for "full spectrum domination". In the US, the Space Force sits alongside the Army, Navy and Airforce as part of the US military.
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