Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

["Charles Jannuzi" <jannuzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LP:

>>But I wouldn't compare what happened in Australia to what happened to
Nicaragua, however. The USA could have lived with a Labor government in
Australia. It was on the other hand ready to break laws and risk a
constitutional crisis to topple a government that it feared would become
another Cuba.<<

US policies toward New Zealand came damn close when NZ objected to US ships
not confirming whether or not they carried nukes in NZ waters and harbors.
In the case of Australia, the US has taken the place of GB as key 'military
ally' and you could argue the post-war US-Australia relationship has become
neo-imperial.
I found it interesting that a US firm so closely linked to the US imperium
should be operating the immigrant prisoner camps in Australia. But then
again, it was also interesting that this security firm got sold to a Danish
company (which I know nothing about, though).

Charles Jannuzi