Born at the height of the Cold War, Pine Gap was presented to the Australian public in 1966 as a space research facility. Without clearance, the only way to see Pine Gap is by air, or by climbing the craggy ridges of the MacDonnell Ranges that surround the site. drone operations in countries in which the United States is not at war — Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and so forth. As they played a lament for those killed in war, Mr. Dowling held up a large, laminated photograph showing a bloodied young woman with her foot missing. Mr. Dowling seemed unperturbed by how few activists had traveled to remote Alice Springs to support him and the other defendants.

Source: New York Times November 24, 2017 02:48 UTC