The Last Dream: other people's wars (1988)
In this documentary from 1988 John Pilger looks at the complicated relationship Australians have with war
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Thanks for sharing this film at OffG, which was very interesting to watch.
For instance, I did not know about the coup d’etat against Gough Whitlam in 1975 by the Americans and the British because he wanted “to buy back the farm”.
I found an article from John Pilger where he writes about this history of Australia in some more detail: http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-forgotten-coup-how-america-and-britain-crushed-the-government-of-their-ally-australia
That surely is revealing if you look at how recent politics are now evolving in countries like Argentina and Brazil.
The same story can now be told about the British, utterly devoid of Empire since the 1950s. Harold Wilson refused to go to war in Vietnam and we all know that MI5/6 sought to undermine him in office. The only question is whether they acted after briefing by the CIA…. The USA does not consider relations with the UK to be overly important, particularly when it invaded the Sovereign territory of Grenada, whose head of state was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Oops…..and no punishment resulted from it. We went to war in Iraq, a nation we and the US had been supplying with chemical and biological weapons, because the CIA’s man had gone rogue. He represented no danger whatever in either 1990 or in 2003 to the nation of the UK. We have recently been to bomb Libya, a country we had very good relations with until a woman PC was shot dead in London in the early 1980s, solely because America told us to. Colonel Gaddafi represented no threat to the UK militarily and his people enjoyed an excellent standard of living, something which had to be destroyed as they lived independent from Washington’s diktat. Our politicians currently wish us to bomb Syria, whose leader was educated in Oxford and who enjoys wide popular support amongst his own people despite all the lying propaganda to the contrary in the West. His crime is to have long-term alliances with Russia and, traditionally, Turkey. He is not minded to have a pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Turkey through his country, something which is not threatening the territorial integrity of the USA. We have just agreed to spend £200bn over the lifetime of a new generation of ‘independent’ nuclear weapons, with no-one even discussing what realistic targets exist for their use.… Read more »
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